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i don't know much about trifles, but i found this and it looks really good!
trifle.jpg (15 KB, 58 downloads) 2 years old 
What about melting some chocolate chips, and piping out hearts (or monogram or whatever) onto wax paper - let them harden in the fridge and set them on the top. YAY.
Oh, flooding? hmm. I've never done that before! A bunch of little chocolate hearts would be super cute, though! I think I even have pink candy chocolates to melt!
How do you get them to stay in the shape you want without gooing out everywhere?
You may try looking at www.tastespotting.com for inspiration too :) Search in the top right corner for "trifle" and hopefully you will come across something. Good luck!
Maybe this is a little too rich but you could always adapt: http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-baking-no-mixing-no.html
I use a ziplock baggie and no tip - just make the hole tiny tiny. If you melt them in the microwave, get them just hot enough to melt - not super super hot so that they burn you! It's just like icing - you may make a few before you get your technique down.
PS My fav site for recipes and ideas... FAMILY FUN
@lampshade127, mmmmm. Looks like the ice cream cake my husband's grandma makes!
I thought about covering the top in a ganace style frosting, which means the top layer would HAVE to be angel food cake. I could make it in reverse, though.
I saw this picture on that website! WOW! I wonder if it's *too* much, lol. I just want to bake, bake, bake! That zebra cake looks sooo easy, too.
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Thanks, Querida! As long as I don't need any fancy tools I could swing that. I have a LOT of chocolate in my house...and I don't like it very much unless I'm PMSing (see how much I love my friends, making CHOCOLATE for them? haha) so I have no problem wasting a bunch to get some cute hearts.
Maybe instead of the strawberries in the center i'll do a bunch of chocolate hearts!
Have you paged Miss Bruschetta yet on this one? She's an amazing cook!
No, I haven't. Didn't Bruschetta just get married though?
I'm really leaning towards the inverted version! And if it makes a mess, tossing it in the fridge and serving it anyways! Also i want to make zebra cake now...oh there wil just be a million cakes at this thing.
If you want to just keep it simple, why don't you just pipe dots, then drag a toothpick through them from top to bottom, to make the prettiest little hearts?
That zebra cake is beautiful!
Hearts.jpg (11.6 KB, 54 downloads) 2 years old
aHHHH it's perfect! I love all things heart for weddings! Now, i just have to make sure my square angel food cake fits a round bowl very very flat!
The hearts are also pretty in a spiral-- can sort of see from this pic. Or just whimsically strewn about.
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Oh that is so neat! I'm liking the hearts idea....I'm thinking about putting some chocolate curls on the edge of my tiramisu! Help dress it up a little. It looks so flat in comparison!
I guess technically I could use the caramel sauce on the whipped topping if i don't want to invert my trifle
What do you think ladies--invert it (angel food being the top top layer) with chocolate ganace and white hearts or make it regular (cool whip topping on top) with caramel hearts?
If it's going from a square baking pan into a round bowl, it might be easiest to do the cool whip topping on top, so that you can smooth it properly, and sort of "build" where the angel food layer is uneven. With the chocolate ganache on top of the angel food, you might have a problem with it sinking in too much, and you not getting as smooth as a look as you might want...
You could also alternate between chocolate ganache hearts and caramel hearts, if you have both "sauces" already made.
I think the tiramisu would be really pretty if you sort of mounded the chocolate shavings/chocolate curls into a thick/puffy heart in the middle-- sort of like how you have the cream heart now. Plus, then it would be extra delicious, as people cut into it and the chocolate shavings got slowly worked in... The initials make me nervous that they're going to get messed up in transit, and be all streaky and smudgy and stuff.
Yum! You're very nice to do this for your friend.
Yeah i was worried about the ganache laying flat on the angel food. I could see it oozing in between the layers and dripping into the cake. I pictured myself cutting triangles and shapes in order to make the top layer round and flat. I don't necessarily have any ganache laying around, but it's easy enough to make with hot cream and chocolate and I think i'll go through a cup of caraqmel really easily
I like the puffy heart idea. The initials make me nervous, too--granted, her dinner is at the park in my neighborhood, but one quick stop and it would all go ploop.
To be honest the ladies here have some fabulous ideas, I keep racking my restaurant brain for presentations they haven't come up with that are easy and still impressionable. :)
If it were my personal cake/dessert for a special occasion... I would do the spiral hearts in caramel (a favorite look of mine) then white chocolate curls piled up in very middle (I wouldn't do the heart (too many hearts in my opinion).
BTW craft stores have silicone molds that you can get for hearts or initials or dates etc. I would buy some in my friends initials, grease them up (if needed) and pipe chocolate into them and let them set. pop them out and decorate.
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I'm in charge of making dessert for my friend's rehearsal dinner tomorrow! I made the tiramisu last night (see the picture attached!) and I'm making the trifle tonight (angel food cake, homemade caramel sauce, toffee bits, pudding, cream) and I'm blanking on how to decorate it and make it really presentable. I don't have a trifle bowl--just a big glass bowl and glass cake pans like the one I made the tiramisu in. Give me some ideas! All I can think of is fruit...not sure anyone would want fruit on top of chocolate and caramel though. I was thinking along the lines of the second picture (zuppa) if I have enough caramel leftover. I just want to make it pretty and/or personalized for the bride and groom. Thanks!
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