Gingerbread Eggnog Trifle

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Gingerbread Eggnog Trifle

This one is not on my Holiday Baking To Do List, but it should have been!  I have a love for my trifle bowl . . . and it is a love that was put on hold for the last year as my trifle bowl went missing last Christmas!  Thank goodness my parents found it at their house, put away with the Christmas decorations in the basement.  It was just in time too . . . I was about to go in search of a replacement bowl.

I made this recipe up myself . . .  I am sure there are 1000 recipes out there on the internet!  I’m refusing to look as I don’t want to ruin future attempts of creativity and trying something new!  If I don’t know that someone else has thought of it before, I am the genius!

For this recipe, I combined three of my favourite holiday tastes . . . gingerbread, shortbread, and eggnog! Mmmmm . . . I’m salivating at the thought . . . and I already ate (more than) my fair share!

Gingerbread Eggnog Trifle

Ingredients

1 package of Gingerbread Cookies

1 package of Shortbread Cookies

4 cups of Eggnog

2 packages of Vanilla Pudding

250 ml Whipped Cream

1. Make eggnog pudding by using eggnog instead of milk by following the vanilla pudding directions on the box.

2. Whip cream.

3. Crush shortbread cookies into crumbs.

Arrange trifle in these orders: gingerbread, pudding, shortbread, whipping cream . . . repeat until you get to the top.  Decorate as you feel inspired to do so!

Gingerbread Layer

Pudding Layer

Shortbread Layer

Whipping Cream Layer

We enjoyed this trifle after Christmas dinner.  It was so good, but our poor stomach’s barely had enough room to fit it in.  Thank goodness for my 19 year old cousin Jeff, who came back for seconds.  Boxing Day . . . we’ll be eating the leftovers!

Happy Holidays from my family to yours.