A Simple and Easy Fresh Berry Trifle | A Sure Favorite • Start with the Bed

Create this fresh berry trifle using just five ingredients. All will enjoy this refreshing dessert, and it is just perfect for the 4th of July, Labor Day, and Memorial Day. This is quite the red, white, and blue trifle. This post is all about a fresh berry trifle.

Are you in charge of the dessert this year? Have you been looking for a super easy yet delicious 4th of July treat? Well, if that is so, this is a quick and easy recipe for you.

This summer berry trifle recipe is simple and sweet. You can make this easily, and you just need to have five ingredients.

Also, if you are wondering, “Is it okay to make the trifle a day before?” That is a great question, and the answer is yes. As long as you are going to serve it within 24 hours, the trifle is going to still be a hit when it is made a day early. It is always nice to have your food prepared in advance just in case you don’t feel like baking it the next morning or something comes up.

Altogether, this sweet yet refreshing recipe is going to be a hit at your next get together.

This post is all about a fresh berry trifle.

Fresh Berry Trifle

Step 1: Preheat the Oven

Start this recipe by preheating the oven to 350°.

Step 2: The Cake Mix

Add an entire box of vanilla cake mix. You could also use white cake mix. Either way, you are going to have one delicious cake to work with for your trifle.

Step 3: Add the Diet Ginger Ale

Use just one can of diet ginger ale. Pour it over the cake mix and watch it fizz. It smells great too!

Step 4: Mix It Up

Mix it all together. You could use a whisk or a wooden spoon. If you’d like to use your KitchenAid, it would definitely work well too.

For more ways to use your KitchenAid, check out these hacks.

Step 5: Spray Your Pan

Be sure to spray the baking pan with cooking spray so it doesn’t stick.

Step 6: Pour The Batter and Bake

Pour the batter evenly into the baking pan. Then, bake it for 28 minutes. Just check the cake as it bakes so that it doesn’t burn. Just use a toothpick to check it out. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is ready.

Step 7: Cool & Ice

Let the cake cool completely, and then ice it with cream cheese frosting. I just love the taste of cream cheese frosting, but really any icing will work.

Step 8: Smash That Cake

Yes, smash and swirl it around, and mix it up. This, my friends, is going to be the gooey sweet layer of goodness that goes between the berries.

Step 9: Grab That Trifle Bowl

If you are without a simple plastic trifle bowl, check out this budget-friendly find at Target. I used it for mine, and I bet you’ll love it too.

Step 10: Add 2 Cups of Strawberries

Add in two cups of strawberries to the bottom of the trifle bowl.

Step 11: Apply the Batter Layer

After you add the strawberries, then add in a layer of the cake that you mixed earlier in Step 8. This is going to be the sweet layer that goes between the berry freshness.