Restaurant Recipes
Sak's 5th Avenue Strawberry and Lemon Trifle
Ingredients
Syrup
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
Pudding
- 2 (3.3 ounce) boxes lemon pudding or lemon mousse mix
Fruit
- 2 1/2 pints fresh strawberries
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 (16 ounce) all butter pound or angel food cake
Topping
Instructions
Syrup
- Combine sugar, lemon juice and water in a small saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 1 minute. Cover and chill.
Pudding
- Prepare pudding as package direction states. Transfer to small individual dessert bowls, only filling 1/4 of the bowls full. Chill until set.
Fruit
- Roughly chop strawberries then divide and mash one half of the strawberries. Then combine the mashed and chopped strawberries with 1/3 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water in a saucepan on medium heat and simmer for about two minutes.
- Cut cake crosswise into 8 pieces. Cut each piece into 3 strips. Layer cake sections on top of set pudding, trimming to fit. Drizzle with 3 tablespoons lemon syrup, then the stewed strawberries. Repeat layering.
Topping
- Top with generous amounts of whipping cream.
- Garnish with strawberry slices or mint sprigs.