by popular demand...

i stumbled across the recipe while i was cleaning---what a joyous discovery!

for those of you who have not heard of the infamous "pumpkin-gingerbread trifle" it is a concoction that i came up with when asked to bring a dessert to thanksgiving #2 a few years ago when i happened to be in the middle of a personal gastronomic revolution (i.e. my crazed calorie counting phase---every girl has one at some point). i ended up taking a paula deen recipe that i saw on the food network and completely overhauling it to be so riduculously low-cal that even i would eat it.

the funny thing was that the trifle was not well received at thanksgiving, probably because i did not properly market it as a guilt-free dessert option, so i ended up hauling the 90% of it that was left (it is BIG) back to lagrange on an evening that turned into one of the more epic shitshows ive experienced at home. as a result, we ended up diving headfirst into the trifle bowl and drunkenly attacking it. (you can see the photo documentation from my previous post here).

this incident not only secured the infamy of the trifle, but it inspired its ressurection this past thanksgiving when i prepared and served it once again, this time singing its low-cal praises, and everyone could not get enough. people were asking me for the recipe, which i had completely mutilated to come up with my version, but i forgot all about it after the holidays. in any case, it is now avaliable for all to enjoy!

NOTE: although this recipe is crazy low-cal, it is basically the antichrist of my organic/whole foods only philosophy. it has so many fake ingredients that you might actually die from eating it. worth it? potentially.

also, if anyone is interested, here the link for paulas actual recipe.