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One of the great “injustices” of my childhood was having to stand in line at the grocery store, with Twix bars and their gorgeous gold wrappers just inches away, calling my name. But despite my puppy-dog eyes, my pleas, my attempts at rationalizing the situation (because everyone in our family knows that Twix are her favorite candy bars too!)….my mom always held to her strict no-candy-in-the-checkout-line policy. Oh, the defeat!!
But now, the joys of being the adult with the credit card are mine. (Mwahaha…) So on occasion, I take great delight in spontaneously tossing one into my cart. And now, I take oh-so-great delight in introducing my first Twix recipe on the blog! It also happens to be the first of four original recipes I have been asked to develop for the Real Women of Philadelphia — a rockin’ contest hosted by Paula Dean celebrating amazing PHILADELPHIA brand cream cheese and cooking creme recipes. I’ve followed the contest the past two seasons, so am super excited to be a part this year along with these other bloggers!
The RWOP contest is closed for this year but the finalists have been chosen and the winners will be announced at The Cookoff & Live Event in Savanna, Georgia on June 30th (visit the site for all the details.)
So of course, while brainstorming in (of all places) the checkout line one day, the little gold wrapper called my name again and I had the idea for these delicious Twix trifles. They are super-simple — just a layer of Twix, followed by a delicious salted caramel mousse, followed by some chocolate fudge sauce, and topped with whipped cream. Basically, heaven in a trifle bowl. :)
So read on below for the recipe, visit the RWOP site to check out the finalists’ recipes, and see what great ideas you can find.
Twix Trifles
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 6-10 servings 1x
Description
A simple, delicious Twix Trifles recipe with layers of chocolate candy bar salted caramel mousse, hot fudge and whipped cream. YUM!
Ingredients
Trifle Ingredients:
- Twix bars (I used 3 packages, chopped into 1/4″ pieces)
- chocolate fudge sauce (homemade or storebought)
- whipped cream (homemade or storebought)
- salted caramel mousse (recipe below)
Salted Caramel Mousse Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp. water
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt (or more, to taste)
- 4 oz. PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
To Make Trifle:
- In a trifle bowl or small glass, add a layer of the chopped Twix bars. Then use a pastry bag (or a Ziplock bag with the corner tip cut out) to pipe in a layer of caramel mouse. Then do the same with a layer of chocolate fudge sauce. Then repeat! Finish of with a layer of whipped cream, and top with the remaining Twix bars. Serve immediately or refrigerate up to 8 hours.
To Make Salted Caramel Mousse:
- Briefly stir together granulated sugar and water in a small saucepan, then bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Continue cooking, without stirring, until mixture turns dark amber in color, about 6 to 7 minutes. (Keep an eye on it, though, because it goes from clear to amber very quickly!)
- Remove from heat and slowly add in cream (just start with a tablespoon or two), stirring with a wooden spoon until completely smooth. (Be careful, as the mixture will definitely bubble up and possibly splatter a bit as you add in the cream.) Stir in vanilla and salt. Set aside until it reaches room temperature, or refrigerate to speed up the process.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese on medium-high speed for 1 minute until very smooth. Add in the room-temperature caramel and powdered sugar, and beat on medium-low speed until combined. If the mousse is too thick, add in a tablespoon or two of heavy cream. Then increase speed to medium-high and beat for another 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Set aside.
Notes
These would also be delicious with a layer of ice cream!
Ali’s Tip:
These would also be delicious with a layer of ice cream!
I made this just now.. I have never made caramel in my life leave alone caramel mousse but it came out like a dream and tasted amazing!!! Overall the only thing i would change is the sweetness even though i reduced about 50grams of the sugar.. it’s an amazing dessert to make for twix lovers like my hubby :).. best part is its surprisingly easy..
Yay, we’re so glad you found it easy and that you liked it! And yes, you can certainly cut back on the sugar if you’d like. Thanks for sharing with us Amy! :)
I have had this recipe saved for quite sometime now. I always look at it and get excited, but then decide not to make it because I am afraid of the over the top sweetness it might have. I decided yesterday to put my twist on it and make it. Needless to say 5 people ate the whole trifle.
I doubled the caramel recipe then whipped it with the cream cheese, I omitted the powdered sugar all together
I whipped up a pint of heavy whipping cream with 4TB white sugar
After the whipped cream was made I set half of it aside and the other half I folded into the caramel mixture making it very light, airy and mousse like.
I omitted the fudge sauce and substituted the 2c size of Jello Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge pudding mix, made with 2c milk
So I layered
Diced brownies
1/2 caramel mousse
5 small diced twix
1/2 chocolate pudding
1/2 of leftover whipped cream
Diced brownies
Other 1/2 caramel
5 small diced twix
Other 1/2 chocolate pudding
The rest of the whipped cream on top
2 finely diced twix and some brownie crumbs on top
Al I have to say is OMG! It got better reviews than my trusty Reese’s Trifle that I’ve been making for years. Thanks for the kickstart on this recipe.
Thanks for sharing your take on it, Allison! It sounds ridiculous, and we’re definitely taking notes! We’re so glad you had fun with this, and that you enjoyed it!
Awesome!!! I have ALL of these ingredients sitting in my house right now and a party to go to tonight! I know what I will be taking.
Thanks for sharing – I am sure my waistline won’t be thanking me as much though.
We made this tonight for a small dinner party. Definitely glad we doubled the caramel sauce and probably could have tripled it. We also substituted chocolate pudding for the fudge sauce which lightened it up nicely. I think the next time we make it, we will triple the caramel sauce and for the cream cheese we would do 3 parts cream cheese to 1 part whipped topping to tone down the cream cheese aspect. Then instead of fudge sauce, we would actually love to try it with a milk chocolate based mousse to help it set up even better than having substituted the pudding. If we can find a recipe for some gourmet twix bars, we thought that could be pretty awesome with it too.
Loved your instructions on the caramel sauce, my husband has tried to make caramel a couple of times using a similar method and the instructions have always been worthless. With your instructions though, we were able to master it on the first try. Made for a really fantastic dessert. I can’t wait to try it as leftovers once it has had a chance to chill overnight!
Final word, YUMMY!!! Thank you!
I made this recipe and although very good the recipe had to be tripled.. Unless I have a VERY large trifle dish the one serving did not even cover the first layer. I would also recommend using TWO jars of the fudge sauce. I also used 7 packages of Twix bars the 3 packages was not enough.. Hope this comment helps the next person that is going to make this:)