wii night chocolate mint trifle...low fat!

So my friend Danielle is the trifle queen! She always makes amazing trifle for my girls night dinners! A few weeks ago we went to our friend's Zac and Illise's house for dinner and couples wii tournament. I of course asked what I could bring and Illise mentioned that they wanted a trifle "one of these days". So naturally I volunteered to make one! My first! And get this! Ron and I made it together!! AND it was low fat! The only bad part is that the night we made it was the night that I got wicked sick. I think I only had a few bites and don't remember if it was any good! (damn you fever!!) But it was fun to assemble and pretty to look at! And it was very easy!

This trifle was made with boxed brownie mix (I said easy right???) made low fat. Fat free/sugar free chocolate pudding (two boxes worth). Low fat cool whip... and chopped up mint chocolate candies (we used Andes and York peppermint patties- a handful of each).

I've learned that you can essentially use any combination of cake/brownie...pudding a topping of sorts and layer it any way you'd like! Ron baked the brownies while I napped (should have seen that darn flu coming!!). Then we cut it into small cubes. When we made the pudding we mixed it with slightly less milk than it calls for so it would be on the thicker side. Then we folded in the cool whip stuff (I usually don't use cool whip...pretty much never actually... but it holds together better than whipped cream and sadly is less fat too!). I reserved some plain cool whip for the middle layer.

Basically all you do is layer your trifle dish (or clear bowl) with brownies, pudding, candy crumbles, cool whip, more brownie...etc. I reserved some un-chopped candies for the very top so that people eating the dessert would know what flavor it was!
Next time I think I'll make an angel food cake with vanilla pudding from scratch and fresh fruit! Yes I think I will do that in the spring!