Gluten Free Peach Trifle

Pin It

                                                 Peach Trifle

      Peaches are one of the greatest fruits on this Earth, I absolutely love everything about peaches and if you follow my blog, this isn't the first peach dessert; but I think it might be the BEST, (I could have licked the bowl clean) I've blogged this summer; it took major self control to not make more!!   My bowl is not pretty to hold the trifle, so now I am on a search to find a beautiful, glass trifle bowl, who would have thought anyone would ever need such a bowl(not me!!) but honestly, everything tastes so much better if it in is a GORGEOUS  container!! 
      Presentation, presentation, presentation, that is the name of the game when you are taking Gluten Free food anywhere, it must look equally as appealing as the "regular food" if not better, or no one will even try it.  So, my suggestion for the day is, anywhere you go, yard sales, flea markets, auctions, hand-me-downs, thrift shops, new stores, wherever you go, always look for bowls, platters, plates, cake stands and anything else you can find to display your fantastic food on!  Have fun shopping and Happy Baking!




 Ingredients:
 Recipe adapted from Shiksa in the Kitchen
-1 box GF yellow cake mix of your choice
-1 (8oz)cream cheese room temp
-1 pint whipping cream (1.6fluid oz.)
-1 (3.9 oz) vanilla pudding (GF)I also use sugar free so I have use 2 small boxes, I don't need anymore sugar!
-2 tsp pure vanilla extract
-1 1/2 cups powdered sugar ( you will use 1/2 cup with the cream cheese and the 1 cup with the whipped cream)
 -5 cups fresh peaches
**Let it chill in the fridge for at least 4 hrs, once assembled.**

To assemble-
-make your cake, let it cool, then cut it into chunks.
*When your cake is cooking and cooling, do the below things*
-In a mixer or with a hand-mixer, mix the cream cheese, vanilla, dash of salt, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar together until it is light and fluffy.
-Mix together your pudding, then set in the fridge
-Whip up your whipping cream, add 1 tsp vanilla, and 1 cup powdered sugar, whip until thick .
- Peal and cut up your peaches

1-First layer cake

2-Peaches
3-Cream cheese
4-Pudding 
5-repeat until you run out of everything  
6-Lastly- add your whipped cream very last on the top, and decorate with a few peaches if you choose. 






 


This actually made this bowl and a small bowl too, it will make a big trifle bowl and serve a lot of people.  You can make it a day ahead it you like, and just put cool whip on instead of whipping your own cream if your in a hurry. * Make sure and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours once it is assembled, it helps the flavors to melt together!*   Seriously, this is so fantastic, I could have taken a spoon to the bowl and just eaten until it was gone!

Gluten Free Fresh Peach and Strawberry Pie

Pin It

Fresh Peach and Strawberry Pie

 

Terrible picture

     I can't pass up an opportunity to make a dessert with our WONDERFUL, fresh fruit!  So sorry, to all of you chocolate lovers, it's fruit time for a little while longer.  So, I have been all over Pinterest and my cookbooks, looking for yummy ways to make cold desserts, and NOT COOK the fruit; in case I haven't mentioned, I hate cooked fruit with a passion!!!!  So, if you see a recipe with cooked fruit in it, my family begged for it.  This pie was pretty quick and tasty, it looks ugly in the picture (now I see why the lady I got the recipe from didn't take a photo of it cut)  it slides apart, so if you are looking for a dessert that is BEAUTIFUL to serve this is not the one.  Of course if you are looking for tasty treat, full of fresh fruit, this is for you!  I hope you enjoy it.  Happy Baking, Natalie

Ingredients:
Adapted from 5 boys baker.com
 Crust-
-2 cups crushed gluten free graham crackers(I used K-Kritters)
-1/4 cup butter,  or4TBS (melted)
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, bake 12 minutes,  then cool.
Combine in a bowl, spray the pie pan with Pam.  Then press into the sides and bottom of pan firmly.  I didn't crush my cookies enough, they were a little large.

The topping is also graham cookies

Filling:
-1 pound of strawberries hulled and sliced.
-3 or 4 ripe peaches peeled and diced in bite size chunks.
-1 can sweetened condensed milk 
-1/4 cup or a little less if you don't love lemon 
-1 cup heavy cream or cool whip to put on the top of the pie when you're done ( depends if you are in a hurry or not) 

Mix the peaches and strawberries in a bowl, give them a toss, then spoon it onto the crust.  Now in the same bowl put the sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice, mix together, then pour it over the peaches and strawberries.  Let  it chill in the fridge for about 30 minutes, then top with the whipped cream or cool whip.  EAT THIS THE FIRST DAY, IT WON'T STAY TOGETHER.

To me, nothing is better then a fresh fruit dessert on a HOT day!