Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake Trifle

This Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake Trifle features layers of fluffy cake, creamy cheesecake filling, fresh raspberries, and bright lemon flavor. It's an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert that's perfect for holidays, potlucks, and summer gatherings.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, Southern

Keyword Raspberry-lemon-cheesecake-trifle, raspberry-trifle

Prep Time 20

Chill time 4

Total Time 4 20

Servings servings

Calories 715kcal

Author Melissa Sperka

Ingredients

1 recipe Lemon-Raspberry Sour Cream Pound Cake baked, cooled and cubed
3 pint red raspberries. divided
3 Tbsp granulated sugar
1 21 oz can raspberry pie filling [See Cook's Note]
2 8 oz blocks cream cheese softened
4 cups heavy cream divided
2 cups powdered sugar divided
1 large lemon juiced and zested
2 Tbsp grated white chocolate

Instructions

Bake the cake per the recipe, cool and cut into cubes of 1-inch pieces of cake.
Separate the raspberries reserving 2/3 cup to garnish the top.
In a medium bowl toss raspberries with 3 Tbsp granulated sugar. Let sit for 5 minutes, then mix with the pie filling until combined.
In a separate medium bowl, whip together both softened cream cheese, lemon juice, 1 1/2 cup heavy cream, 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Whip for 2-3 minutes until combined then fold in the lemon zest by hand.
In a separate medium bowl whip the remaining 2 1/2 cup heavy cream with 1/2 cup powdered sugar use more if desired.
Whip until stiff peaks form. Fold 2 cup whipped cream into the cheesecake mousse. Reserve the remaining for the topping.
Assemble: In a large bowl or trifle bowl layer the ingredients beginning with cubed cake, raspberry filling then cheesecake mousse. Repeat layers until all ingredients have been used.
Frost the top with the remaining whipped cream and garnish with reserved 2/3 cup raspberries, lemon zest and grated white chocolate.
Chill for at least 4 hours or overnight before serving.

Notes

Trifle Bowl - If you don't have a trifle bowl, you can use a large glass bowl so you can see the layers.
Cake - You can adapt this recipe using lemon lovers pound cake or classic million dollar pound cake.
Cake Mix Hack - If you're short on time, it's perfectly acceptable to use a cake mix for the cake layers. A lemon or yellow cake mix will work.
Raspberry Pie Filling - Why does this recipe call for fresh raspberries and raspberry pie filling? The pie filling is a shortcut hack that creates the sauce for the berry layers with very little fuss. You could replace it with strawberry pie filling or cherry pie filling in a pinch.
Garnish - I like to top this off with fresh lemon zest and grated white chocolate for a world class sweet treat.
Whipped Cream - You could use whipped topping in place of homemade whipped cream. Use Cool Whip or a similar store brand that you enjoy.

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