Easter Trifle

This delicious Easter Trifle has layers of cake, pudding, coconut, whipped cream, and your favorite Easter candies. It's the ultimate Easter dessert!

With Easter coming up, there are so many options easy Easter desserts.

We love making a holiday dessert table filled with pastel-colored Spring treats. It's the best way to celebrate this time of year! Each year, we'll make a combination of Mini Egg Cookies, Easter Egg Cheesecake, Bunny Pretzels, and Easter Brownies.

For another beautiful Easter dessert that's layers of delicious Spring sweetness, try this recipe for Easter trifles. It's the perfect dessert that the whole family will love. Plus, it's so much fun to make!

🌟 Why this recipe works

A trifle is a layered dessert usually filled with layers of cake, pudding, whipped cream, and other yummy edible goodies. You get a combination of luscious flavors in every bite!

If you have a large trifle dish, you can make one large trifle. This recipe shows you how to make six individual trifles. But you can also use the same recipe to make one big trifle.

This Easter trifle is:

• Easy to make - It's basically making the separate components, then layering them together.
• So delicious - With layers of cake, custard/pudding, coconut, and whipped cream, it's a decadent and beautiful show stopper of a dessert.
• Fun to decorate - Use your favorite colorful Easter candies!

🛒 Ingredient notes

You just need a simple ingredients that you can find easily in any grocery store.

• Boxed cake mix - Boxed white cake mix works best for this. You can also use vanilla cake mix if you prefer.
• Vanilla pudding - You'll need one box of vanilla instant pudding or white chocolate pudding. You could even use banana pudding if you prefer. Or, use our easy Homemade Vanilla Pudding recipe. Our pudding recipe makes enough for 6 individual servings.
• Food coloring - You can color the cakes however you like! To go with the Easter theme, we used spring colors with pink and blue food coloring, although our blue came turned out green during this particular photo shoot. Still worked with the Spring theme, and was still delicious!
• Shredded coconut - A layer of shredded coconut lightly colored with green food coloring helps make it look like edible Easter grass, which is so fun and festive! Plus, it will sort of look like a nest for the bird decorations. The coconut is also an optional layer, so if you don't like coconut, feel free to leave it out.
• Heavy cream - Whip up heavy whipping cream to make whipped cream, which will go on top of the trifle. You can also buy a canister of whipped cream and use that. Or, substitute frozen whipped topping like cool whip.
• Easter candies - Top each trifle with your favorite Easter candies! We love adding spring-colored sprinkles, Peeps, and mini chocolate candy eggs.

✅ Step-by-step instructions

The full recipe with detailed instructions are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post. But here are step-by-step photos of the process to help you make this easy Easter trifle!

This is a simple layered dessert with easy steps that consists of making the different components, and then layering them together in a trifle bowl.

1. Start by mixing the boxed cake mix according to package directions. Separate into two bowls. Use a few drops of pink food coloring in one cake batter and drops of blue food coloring (or your choice of food coloring) in the other batter. Stir each separately until well combined. Pour into two 8-inch cake pans. Bake according to package directions.
2. Add green food coloring to the shredded coconut and mix until the color is evenly distributed. Set aside.

3. Once the baked cake has cooled a bit on a cooling rack, use a serrated knife to slice each cake round in half lengthwise, so you end up with four thin cake rounds. Using a cookie cutter that fits inside your particular trifle dishes, cut out circles of cake.
4. Place one layer color of cake round in the bottom of each trifle glass.
5. Top that bottom cake layer with a layer of shredded coconut (the edible grass).

6. Top the shredded coconut layer with a custard layer of pudding.
7. Then add one cake layer in the other cake color on top of the vanilla pudding layer.
8. Whip the heavy whipping cream in a stand mixer until it forms stiff peaks. Add fresh whipped cream to the top of the trifle.

Garnish with your favorite Easter candy decorations and enjoy! We love using mini chocolate eggs, colorful Peeps marshmallows, Easter M & Ms, jelly beans, and pastel sprinkles.

👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQs

🍽 Serving ideas

This Easter trifle recipe would be perfect to serve at any Easter gathering. If you're hosting an Easter dinner, consider serving our Air Fryer Ham, Air Fryer Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus, and Crab Deviled Eggs.

🍳 Kitchen tools and equipment

Ready to make this recipe? Here are the kitchen tools and equipment you'll need:

• Cake pans - Use two 8-inch cake pans for this recipe.
• Stand mixer - You can use a stand mixer or a large bowl with hand mixer to make the cake and also to make the whipped cream.
• Mixing bowls - You'll need 2-3 large mixing bowls along with a sturdy whisk and wooden spoon.
• Trifle bowls - You can use individual trifle bowls, larger parfait glasses, ramekins, or simple small glasses. You can also make one big trifle if you have a large glass bowl or large trifle bowl.

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