Irish Coffee Trifle Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake

  store-bought or homemade, cubed
• 1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream
• 16 ounces cream cheese

  room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon espresso powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon rum extract
• fresh mint sprigs
• chocolate curls

Instructions

• 1 Make chocolate curls, if using, and store in the refrigerator or freezer. This
  can be made ahead of time.
• 2 Cube the chocolate pound cake and set aside.
• 3 In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, whip the cream until stiff peaks form.
  Set aside.
• 4 Into another bowl, add the room temperature cream cheese, brown sugar,
  confectioners' sugar, cinnamon, and espresso powder; beat until smooth and
  creamy. Then, beat in the vanilla and rum extracts and 1/3 of the whipped cream.
  With a spatula, fold in the remaining whipped cream until combined.
• 5 Begin and end with an Irish pastry cream layer as follows: Add 1/3 of the pastry
  cream to the bottom of the trifle dish. Top with 1/2 of the cubbed chocolate
  cake. Then add a second layer of pastry cream, followed by the remaining cubed
  cake. Add a final layer of pastry cream to the top.
• 6 If serving immediately, top chocolate curls, if using, and sprigs of fresh mint.
  Cover and store in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours if serving later. Just
  before serving, decorate the top of the trifle.

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