Chocolate Raspberry Trifle
- 1/3 cup dark creme de cacao liqueur or dark rum
- 1/3 cup brewed black coffee or water
- 2 tubs (22 oz each) refrigerated chocolate pudding
- 1 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream, well chilled
- 3 Tbsp confectioners' sugar
- 1 chocolate-marble loaf cake or pound cake (14 oz), cut in 16 thin slices, slices cut in half
- 1 bar (3.5 oz) bittersweet chocolate, shaved into shards with a vegetable peeler
- 3 baskets (1/2 pt each) red raspberries (reserve 8 berries for garnish)
- Have ready a 3-qt trifle bowl or clear glass serving bowl (about 8-inch diameter), preferably straight-sided.
- Mix liqueur and coffee in a clear 1-cup measure. Combing pudding and sour cream in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, beat cream and confectioners' sugar with mixer on high speed until stiff, billowy peaks form when beaters are lifted.
- Arrange half the cake slices in bottom of trifle bowl, drizzle with 1/2 the liqueur mixture. Spread 1/2 the pudding mixture; sprinkle with 1/3 the chocolate shavings. Top with 1/2 the raspberries, then 1/2 the whipped cream. Repeat layers (reserve remaining shavings for garnish). Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 8 hours or up to 1 day.
- To serve: Sprinkle with remaining chocolate shavings; garnish with reserved berries.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/chocolate-raspberry-trifle-51345921 (may not work)