Red Velvet Trifles

Ingredients

• 2½ cup all purpose flour
• ¾ tsp baking soda
• ¾ tsp salt
• 1½ tsp cocoa powder
• 2 eggs
• 1½ cups + 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp Amoretti® Vanilla Madagascar Bourbon W.S. 20X
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp white vinegar
• 1 tbsp red food color
• ⅓ cup Amoretti® Natural Red Velvet Artisan

• 1 – 8 oz. package cream cheese, room temperature
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp Amoretti® Vanilla Madagascar Bourbon W.S. 20X, optional

• 1 tsp powdered gelatin
• 4 tsp water
• 2 cups cream
• ⅔ cup chopped white chocolate
• 1 vanilla bean, scraped

• red velvet cake crumbs
• white candy pearls
• pink sugar crystals or tiny candy pearls
• white chocolate decorations (see TIPS)

• small trifle dishes
• piping bags

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Spray and line a half sheet pan or 2 – ¼ sheet pans with parchment paper. Lightly spray parchment and set aside.
3. Sift together dry ingredients, set aside.
4. Whip eggs and sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Add oil and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla. Mix just to combine.
6. Alternate adding dry ingredients and buttermilk.
7. Scrape the bowl and mix again.
8. Add vinegar, mix just to combine.
9. Add food color and Red Velvet Artisan.
10. Scrape bowl and finish combining batter by hand, to prevent overmixing the batter.
11. Pour batter into sheet pan(s) and bake for approximately 55 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
12. Cool completely before removing from pan(s). At this point you can wrap the cakes and chill overnight.

13. Whip cream cheese until smooth.
14. Add butter and mix.
15. Scrape the bowl and add powdered sugar and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, if using.
16. Beat until smooth and fluffy.

17. Bloom gelatin in water and set aside.
18. Heat cream to simmering.
19. Pour cream over white chocolate and vanilla seeds, whisk until smooth.
20. Add bloomed gelatin to warm cream and whisk until combined.
21. Chill 6 hours or overnight.
22. Whip cream, adding food colors if desired.

23. Cut cake into circles to fit the trifle dishes.
24. Place one cake circle in bottom. Brush with simple syrup (see TIPS) if desired.
25. Pipe a layer of Cream Cheese Filling onto the cake.
26. Place another cake circle over Cream Cheese Filling.
27. Pipe White Chocolate Cream on top and garnish with red velvet cake crumbs, candy pearls, colored sugar, and white chocolate decorations if desired.

• SIMPLE SYRUP To make simple syrup, combine equal amounts of sugar and water. Heat until sugar dissolves. Let cool and use as directed.
• Learn how to make Decorative Chocolate Garnishes.