Gluten-Free 4 Ingredient Cranberry Trifle Recipe

By
Elizabeth Barbone
Elizabeth Barbone: Contributing Writer at Serious Eats
Elizabeth Barbone
Elizabeth Barbone develops delicious and creative recipes for the food allergic and gluten-free communities through her site Gluten-Free Baking. Author of three cookbooks: Easy Gluten-Free Baking (2009), How to Cook Gluten-Free (2012), and The World's Easiest Paleo Baking (2016).
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Updated August 30, 2018
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Elizabeth Barbone

Note:The recipe as written contains dairy. However, it can be made dairy-free using dairy-free cream cheese and dairy-free whipped "cream" or whipped topping. Cranberry sauce sweetness varies. Adjust the sweetness of the cranberry cream to suit your taste by adding powdered sugar after you whip the cranberry sauce and cream cheese together.

Recipe Details

Gluten-Free 4 Ingredient Cranberry Trifle Recipe

Active 15 mins
Total 15 mins
Serves 6 servings
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup plus 6 tablespoons jellied or whole berry cranberry sauce, divided
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature (regular, low fat or no-fat)
  • Confectioner's sugar, optional
  • 6 soft-baked gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, crumbled (Enjoy Life brand suggested.)
  • 1 cup sweetened whipped cream
  • Mini-chocolate chips, (optional)

Directions

  1. In medium bowl, combine 1/2 cup cranberry sauce and cream cheese. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 30 seconds. Taste. If cranberry cream isn't sweet enough, add confectioner's sugar to taste.

  2. Place about one tablespoon of cranberry sauce on the bottom of six dessert cups. Spoon in two to three tablespoons of cranberry cream. Layer with a sprinkle of crumbled chocolate chip cookies. Add another layer of cranberry cream and chocolate chip cookies. Top with whipped cream and, if desired, a sprinkle of mini-chocolate chips. Serve immediately or chill until ready to serve. Store up to two days in the refrigerator.

Special equipment

dessert cup

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