{"id":1889,"date":"2013-05-28T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.sugarhero.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:08:01","slug":"lemon-blackberry-trifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/lemon-blackberry-trifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Blackberry Trifle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Lemon Blackberry Trifle is like a greatest hits collection of many of my favorite things: ultra-moist cake, tangy lemon curd, softly whipped sweet cream, juicy berries, and a hint of fresh mint. This is a must-make!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If all goes well, this will be the last dessert I truly eat for…awhile. Like a month. Or maybe more.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m still going to keep making and posting new dessert recipes on SugarHero, and I’m still going to taste-test them all to make sure that I love them and think they’re perfect. But there’s a big gaping chasm between taste-testing a bite here and there, and the kind of “taste-testing” that I’ve been doing, which generally involves a giant spoon and a huge plate and a very embarrassing interlude of snorfing and gulping and licking my chops behind closed kitchen doors. Things have gotten a little out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since having my son a year ago, I’ve learned some very important lessons. Lessons like: people who claim the baby weight “just falls right off” when breastfeeding are big lying liars. And they should probably be shunned, or at least glared at behind their smug backs. And that a steady diet of sugar and butter and four hours of sleep a night does not, in fact, make that weight fall right off either. And that one must finally accept some responsibility and put down the giant trifle eatin’ spoon and get to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So this, then, was my last hurrah, at least for a month or so while I reset my eating habits and get reacquainted with my long-lost friends, vegetables. If you follow me on Instagram<\/a>, you know that I recently did a 3-day juice cleanse, which was a great kick in the pants to get serious about eating well. I was planning on going straight from the juice cleanse into my don’t-call-it-a-diet-diet, but the prospect of three parties this weekend convinced me to relax the rules, enjoy the socializing, and make a real start after Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If I have to hold back on desserts for a bit, I’m glad I got to say goodbye with this trifle. It’s like a greatest hits collection of many of my favorite things: ultra-moist cake, tangy lemon curd, softly whipped sweet cream, juicy berries, and a hint of fresh mint. It was the perfect dessert for Memorial Day, when spring transitions to summer and the world is warm and bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know I’ve talked up trifles before, but allow me to gush a bit more. They look fancy, they taste amazing, but they’re so<\/em> easy to make. The directions basically amount to “Layer yummy things in a bowl. Serve.” I’ve provided recipes for making the cake and lemon curd from scratch, but you can easily substitute purchased cake and curd and make this without breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Options, you ask? Options, you have: Use jam instead of lemon curd, change out the berries, experiment with cake flavors, add some cream cheese to your whipped cream—there are endless possibilities, and unless you’re making pineapple-red velvet-basil-fig jam trifle, you really can’t go wrong. And even then, well, the magic of trifle just might surprise you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So long, sugar gluttony, and thanks for all the trifle.\"Lemon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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