Chocolate Banana Cream Trifle

Chocolate Banana Cream Trifle

This recipe is easy and best of all... drum roll please... Its dairy free! Also makes a fun holiday treat you can make with your kids that everyone will love. Of course you can use regular milk and all ingredients with dairy if your family is not allergic, but mine is so here's the recipe!

You will need:

-18 whole graham crackers

-3/4 cup chocolate syrup (check the label! Hersheys & GV are all i use, I don't know if others are non-dairy)

-1 (12 oz) container non-dairy whipped topping

-1 box instant vanilla pudding (jell-o brand has no dairy if prepared at home w/ soy milk)

-1 cup vanilla soy milk

-4 large bananas

-2 Tbsp Lemon juice

Directions:

- chop/crush the graham crackers in a bowl and set them aside.

- For the chocolate portion (its called ganache) put your chocolate syrup and 1&1/2 cups of the whipped topping into a small, microwave safe bowl and heat just until it can be whipped together smoothly.

- combine the pudding mix and soy milk in a separate bowl and whisk together till thickened. Stir in the remaining whipped topping until the whole mixture is smooth and set it aside for a minute.

- Slice your bananas equally and put them into a bowl. (I eat the ends w/ my girls just for fun, silly but they like it) Sprinkle them with the lemon juice and toss gently so you don't ruin their shape. Set aside 12 or so slices to top your trifle with.

- To put it all together find a bowl that you can see through. (clear plastic or glass) place half the graham cracker crumbs on the bottom and spread them out evenly. put half of the bananas in a layer over the graham crackers and pour about 1/3 of the ganache over it evenly.

-Spread about half of the pudding mixture over that and repeat the layers till you're out.

- Decorate the top by drizzling the remaining ganache in a criss cross pattern and sprinkling that with the remaining graham cracker crumbs. Garnish with the bananas you set aside around the edges and you are done!

Great job! It's going to taste great!