Death by Chocolate Trifle

Everyone knows what a trifle is right?  It's a layered dessert that has many different individual things in it, layered over and over until you get to the top of the trifle "bowl".  See pictures below for examples.

                      

                     

Now as you can see there are many varieties that can be created.  However, I can promise you that I am going to make your eyes swim with delight if you are a chocolate lover.  So here goes....

You will need the following "ingredients".

Devils food cake, baked by the boxed directions and sliced horizontally into 4 "layers".

8 cups of prepared chocolate pudding, cold and set

10 cups of nearly frozen cool whip

8 full size kit kat bars, broken into sticks and the sticks in half for 8 pieces per full size bar

8 full size butterfinger bars, crushed. divided into 2 bar bowls

8 full size milky way bars, cut into half inch slices

40 strawberries

1 bag of milk chocolate chips, melted to dip the strawberries in

4 full size heath bars, crushed

The trifle is layered in the following way;

1. devils food cake layer

2. 2 cups prepared chocolate pudding spread over cake

3. 2 full size kit kat bars broken in 8 pieces each for 16 pieces sprinkled in the chocolate pudding

4.  2 cups nearly frozen cool whip spread over the pudding and kit kat bars

5.  sprinkle 2 crushed butterfinger bars over the cool whip

6.  2 milky way bars, cut into 1/2 inch pieces and dropped over the butterfinger cool whip layer

Start all over again.  Repeat layers until you have all four or your bowl is nearly full.  (we use the largest we could find)

To top it off, spread over the top the extra two cups of cool whip and place in the fridge, covered with plastic wrap.  Now melt your chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and after cleaning and drying your strawberries, dip them in the melted chocolate chips.  Place on a wax paper lined tray in the fridge to harden up.  While this is happening, crush your Heath bars.

After your strawberries have hardened, place them in a circular pattern on the top, point side up, of your trifle.  Sprinkle with the crushed Heath bars.  Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.  

Serve cold. (Hint:  If you desire to add more calories and more lusciousness, heat up caramel sauce and hot fudge sauce and drizzle only as you serve each individual serving.  DO NOT PUT ON THE TOP OF THE TRIFLE!  It will not be as yummy cold.  Only serve that individually.  And this is truly DEATH BY CHOCOLATE TRIFLE.