Recipe for cooking fruit trifle

Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Tortes and Trifles

Fruit Trifle

1/4 lb. plain cake
1 sm. box peach flavor gelatin
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple
Milk, with pineapple juice, to equal 2 c.
1 sm. box instant vanilla pudding
3 bananas
1 c. frozen nondairy whipped topping, defrosted

Slice plain cake and place in bottom of glass 8-in. square dish. Mix 1/2 c. boiling water with gelatin. When dissolved, pour over cake. Drain juice from crushed pineapple and reserve. Place pineapple over cake and gelatin. Combine pineapple juice with enough milk to equal 2 c. and mix with instant pudding. Pour over cake, gelatin and pineapple. Slice bananas, covering top. Place whipped topping over bananas and spread to cover entire trifle.