Cute and Delicious Gingerbread Trifle Recipe

A gingerbread trifle recipe that’s perfect for the holiday season. Not just a gingerbread man trifle, but a whole gingerbread family!

As I’ve said many times in trifle recipe posts, this is one of the easiest desserts you can make that still looks impressive. Trifles are a huge hit in my family and I hope you love them as well.

Holiday Gingerbread Trifle Layered Dessert

It’s been a lot of fun experimenting with flavor combinations in the layers of all these trifles. This Christmas gingerbread trifle is another delicious one. If you’re looking for gingerbread trifle recipes, definitely add this one to your list.

There are so many ways to modify this recipe. Honestly, it’s hard to mess a trifle up when you are layering tasty dessert foods on top of each other. As long as you don’t stray into other food groups like the meat trifle from Friends, you should be just fine!

If you prefer individual servings, check out these gingerbread cheesecake jars. Guests can easily grab the perfect portion for less mess!

Gingerbread Trifle Ingredients

(Find the exact measurements in the recipe card below)

• Spice cake and ingredients to make it
• Instant vanilla pudding
• Milk
• Whipped topping
• Gingerbread cookies

Gingerbread Family Trifle Directions

Add the milk and the instant pudding mix into a bowl and mix well until smooth.

Refrigerate the pudding for 5 minutes.

Select 3 of the best gingerbread family cookies for the top of the trifle and set aside.

Crush 15 of the gingerbread cookies and set aside.

Crush 10 more cookies and place them into a separate bowl and set aside.

Slice the spice cake round in half lengthwise so you have 2 rounds.

Place 1 spice cake round into the bottom of the trifle bowl.

Top the cake with half of the vanilla pudding and half of the whipped topping.

Sprinkle with the bowl of 15 crushed gingerbread cookies.

Repeat the layers, topping with almost all the whipped topping and the bowl of 10 crushed cookies.

Place 3 dollops of whipped topping onto the very top and place 3 whole gingerbread cookies into the whipped topping.

Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Serves 12-16 people.

Gingerbread Trifle Notes and FAQ’s

I have too much cake for the trifle bowl.

Depending on the size of your trifle dish, you might have too much cake. After so many trifles, this is still something that’s never consistent for us. For this one, we made one cake round and then 12 cupcakes with the remaining batter. You can also use leftover cupcakes that you break into pieces.

What kind of gingerbread cookies should you use?

The gingerbread cookies you see here are Pepperidge Farms Ginger Family cookies. Feel free to make your own gingerbread cookies, or use whatever you like. Using the whole family of cookies is cute on the top. Don’t overthink it when you are crushing them though. :/

Can I make a gingerbread trifle the day before?

I do not recommend making this gingerbread trifle the day before because the cookies will get soggy. You can make the cake, pudding, and get the cookies ready beforehand so you can quickly layer the trifle the day of if that helps.

Which pudding should I use in a gingerbread trifle?

The pudding used here is vanilla, but white chocolate pudding will look nice if you don’t love the yellow color. It’s been hard to find white chocolate pudding lately, but might be worth seeking out if that’s the color you prefer in your trifle.

More Christmas Desserts to Make

• Stained-glass cookies
• Christmas trifle
• Grinch cookies
• Holiday marble-iced cookies
• Holiday OREO bark candy

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Please let me know if you make this gingerbread trifle. I’d love to see your pictures!