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Holiday Bake Along - X’s & Oh’s

December 22nd, 2007 by Tink Boord-Dill

This recipe truly IS decadent! Whoever thought Chocolate Instant Pudding to be this grown-up! LOL

I hope you’ll follow along with this year’s Holiday Bake Along. Be sure and check out previous recipes, as well!

Tink

*When I dream, I cook and bake like an artist!*

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Needlework and Quilting Holiday Bake Along 2007

Decadent Black Forest Chocolate Trifle
As with most of our favorite family recipes, this one started with an actual recipe, and was ‘adjusted’ from there! I think the basic recipe was in one of those wonderful Milk calendars, but it called for making pudding from scratch, and whipped topping the same way - and I wanted a simple dessert my young daughters could prepare as their part of the Christmas dinner at grandmas.
So with a few simple replacement ingredients - and the addition of a cherry layer - we created our own version, that was so popular it has become a ‘must-have’ dessert at family gatherings. Now that our daughters are in University, they still come home to make this dessert to take to grandma’s… though I’m waiting for the day when they bring the ingredients with them, LOL! Merry Christmas everyone!
Ingredients
instant chocolate pudding (2 packages)
package chocolate wafer cookies
bananas
can cherry pie filling
package whipped topping
solid chocolate bar (optional)
Step by Step
1) Make up the pudding, and the whipped topping (in separate bowls!).
2) Crumble the cookies in a separate bowl, ready for sprinkling.
3) Strain the cherry pie filling to reduce the amount of filling, retaining some of the sauce and all the cherries.
4) Slice the bananas about 1/4″ thicknesses.
5) We use a glass punch bowl to put this together, as it’s large and decorative!
6) Begin layering the ingredients as follows:
chocolate pudding / crumbled chocolate wafer /
chocolate pudding / banana /
chocolate pudding / crumbled chocolate wafer /
chocolate pudding / cherry pie filling /
chocolate pudding / crumbled chocolate wafer /
chocolate pudding / banana /
chocolate pudding / crumbled chocolate wafer /
Keep the chocolate pudding layers thin enough to do all the layers 6) (you may want to divide the crumbled wafers into 4 even piles for the same reason).
7) Finish with a layer of whipped topping.
8 ) Grate the chocolate bar, to get curls or shavings to decorate the top of the dessert.
9) Chill the chocolate bar first, if it’s too soft to grate easily
10) Serve and Enjoy!
X’s & Oh’s
X’s & Oh’s has certainly grown since those early days! I can still remember my first magazine sale - I made the cover of Stoney Creek Cross Stitch! Once my DH finished his education, he encouraged me to make designing my full time job… and about five years ago I was able to do just that. It has been quite a journey, and so interesting to look back on my early designs (such as STANDING PROUD, a very structured colt, with lots of backstitching), and realize how much my work has changed and evolved over the years (compare that early design to another favorite horse design COMPANIONS, where the detail is provided in full stitch). Now we are working with 14 artists and designers, so life is never dull! Visit our website www.xs-and-ohs.com to see over 200 great designs in so many styles and areas of interest - and remember, you make the X’s and just wait for the OOOOHHHHH’s!
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