Pumpkin Bread Trifle With Bourbon Whipped Cream

For our Thanksgiving dessert this year, I’m keeping with the pumpkin theme and making a Pumpkin Bread Trifle. Easy to make, delicious to eat!

When Thanksgiving rolls around, I play by the game of hardcore tradition. We may change up the turkey, whether we bake it or fry it, but for the sides, yeahhhhh, they’re the same, year after year.

Because they’re really good, and we truly enjoy this meal once a year. We look forward to all the sides and we eat and drink until we roll around the house, rather than walk. Thanksgiving is focused on comfort food at it’s finest. But isn’t that the case with everyone?!!

However, with all of this tradition talk, our Thanksgiving desserts play musical chairs every year. We all have a sweet tooth around here, and too, we’re all game to try something new. The more the merrier, as desserts go. That being said, the common denominator, Thanksgiving-dessert-wise, must contain pumpkin.

And the possibilities are endless.

Of our Thanksgiving dessert successes, my Pumpkin Ice Cream recipe is simply a must-make every year. This goes without saying. This year, I wanted to create a pumpkin themed recipe that included layers and textures, because I seem to be all about those two lately.

A trifle seemed fitting. How about a Pumpkin Bread Trifle?!! That would check all of the boxes. A moist cake-like bread, upping the ante on the whipped cream by folding in a little bourbon, and then topping it all off with some delicious caramel sauce drenched in there.

I mean, seriously….

This is what I think about when I can’t sleep at night. Thanksgiving desserts, and how to up the my game, mulling ideas around in my mind.

So I got to work, and started testing recipes, focusing on pumpkin bread. There’s a lot of recipes out there, so I had to cipher out a few and start testing. Mixing here, adding there, deleting some ingredients, adding what I thought was important. All in a days work of recipe developing.

I’m happy to say that after just a few test recipes, I had a crowned jewel.

As for the bourbon whipped cream, well, all I can say for that is Hallelujah! A little makes a statement.

I hunted down my trifle dish, and found it happily housing a few succulents, so I moved on to the next best thing, brandy sniffers. A gorgeous single-serving trifle, and brandy sniffers can be used for so many other desserts as well!

Here is my tried and true recipe for Pumpkin Bread Trifle With Bourbon Whipped Cream

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