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This giant Raspberry Lemon Meringue Trifle is made with thinly sliced layers of moist pound cake, tart lemon curd, raspberry jam, and lots of toasted vanilla meringue! This giant trifle is perfect for feeding a crowd! Everyone is sure to love it!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy National Pound Cake Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…wait, what? You didn’t know it was National Pound Cake Day? You weren’t even planning<\/em> on celebrating with any sort of pound cake<\/a> today? What are you going to tell me next—that you didn’t even put up your pound cake tree or hang your pound cake stockings? But surely you were going to sing a few pound cake carols…right? No<\/em>? For heaven’s sake. You are so lucky you have me in your life to remind you of these important holidays!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay, real talk. It’s possible that National Pound Cake Day is not a legitimate, nationally recognized holiday. (Yet<\/em>.) But as we all know, I’m a sucker for food-themed days<\/a>—any excuse to make a special dessert is okay by me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As longtime readers know, I’m a<\/a> trifle<\/a> nut<\/a>. Just call me TrifleHero! I’m always trying to think of ways to change up the basic trifle equation of cake cubes+squishy stuff+fruity bits. I’ve had the idea of a vertical trifle bouncing around my head for a few months now, so this seemed like the perfect time to experiment. This sort of trifle design, with strips of cake running vertically along the sides of the bowl, requires a cake that is fairly sturdy and won’t collapse during assembly. Hello, pound cake? That’s your cue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I slathered the pound cake slices with homemade lemon curd, raspberry jam, and vanilla meringue, to give it a sunny, summery flavor, even in the dead of winter. And atop the trifle? What else but a billowing cloud of fluffy vanilla meringue, torched on top for the perfect toasted marshmallow flavor! No matter what the question is, I’m pretty sure the answer is always “toasted meringue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More real talk. This trifle construction was a learning process! I figured out a good method by the end, but there were some missteps in the beginning, and even now, the cake slices that aren’t perfectly straight make my left eye twitch. (Pro tip: perfectionists should not make desserts that require straight edges.) But you, dear reader, can learn from my mistakes, and follow this helpful photo tutorial and the instructions below. Your dessert will be a pinnacle of 90-degree angles and straight lines. Rulers, protractors, and geometry geeks alike will look at it and marvel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting your trifle slices perfectly vertical is beside the point, though, when the flavor is so good! There is something sublime about the combination of moist pound cake, tart lemon curd, fruity jam, and sweet, vanilla-scented meringue. It’s like the best parts of a cake and a lemon meringue pie got together and had a baby, and although I would not normally encourage you to eat a baby, I’m going to make an exception this time because this is truly a delicious dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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