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These Healthier Holiday Cranberry Vanilla Mini Trifles are the perfect WW holiday dessert. As beautiful as they are tasty, serve these at your next Thanksgiving or Christmas gathering. Your family or guests will be so impressed, and they will have no idea they are eating a lighter dessert.
Weight Watchers Holiday Recipes
Just because you are a WW member doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy sweets and treats during the holiday season. These little mini trifles are great for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s Eve. They are delicious any time of year but best in the fall and winter when it’s easy to find fresh cranberries.
Be sure to grab our printable WW Thanksgiving and Christmas Menu and our huge list of WW Christmas recipes.
Here are some of our other recipes that are popular for the holidays:
- Crustless Pumpkin Pie – Just a few points for the whole pie. This is a reader favorite.
- WW Cherry Whip – A delicious fluff salad.
- WW Orange Fluff Salad – This old-fashioned Jell-O salad is one my mom made often. I’ve lightened it to make it lower in points and calories.
- 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins – These simple muffins are a WW member favorite.
Tips for Making Weight Watchers Cranberry Vanilla Mini Trifles
Here are some helpful tips for making this easy W W dessert.
- This recipe looks especially fun served in wine glasses, but other glasses or bowls work equally well. Clear plastic wine glasses are available on Amazon or at most party stores.
- Instead of cooking the cranberries on the stove top, try our one minute Instant Pot cranberry sauce recipe.
- Swap out a different fruit if you’d like to make this during another time of year when cranberries aren’t in season. This is delicious with strawberries or blueberries. Or try our similar recipe for Strawberry Pretzel dessert cups.
- This can be made into one full-sized trifle if you’d like.
- Prepare your own angel food cake from a box mix or simply purchase an angel food cake at the store. These are available at most grocery stores in the bakery section.
- We used Splenda in this recipe. Other sweeteners can be used, but remember to adjust points accordingly if you use a sweetener with sugar and calories.
- Almond or other milk substitutes can be used with the pudding mix, but keep it mind it might not set as well. Almond milk results in soft-set pudding.
- Be sure to save back a few cranberries to top your desserts, but keep in mind those will be tart! Roll them in a bit of sweetener powder to cut back on the tartness.
Ingredients for WW Mini Trifles
Here’s what you will need for this recipe:
- 1 angel food cake, prepared
- 2 boxes sugar free vanilla pudding
- Skim milk
- 24 ounce fresh cranberries
- Splenda
- Cool whip or other light whipped topping
Weight Watchers Cranberry Vanilla Mini Trifles Recipe
Here is step by step with photos for how to make this WW cranberry dessert.
Makes 12-14 trifles depending on size of containers used. Points are calculated for 12 servings.
Pre-made angel food cakes are readily available in your supermarket bakery department.
(If you use another sweetener of choice, adjust points accordingly.)
Next, make pudding according to package directions.
You can add a touch of cinnamon or a bit or orange zest for a warm holiday flavor.
These are so easy to put together, but look like you spent all day in the kitchen.
Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Healthier Cranberry Vanilla Mini Trifles
Ingredients
- 1 angel food cake prepared according to box directions
- 2 boxes sugar free vanilla pudding 3.4 oz each
- 3 cups skim milk or 2 1/2 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 24 ounces fresh cranberries divided
- 1 ยฝ cups water
- 1/2 cup Splenda, plus 2 Tbsp, divided or sweetener of your choice, adapt nutritional info accordingly.
- 2 cups fat free or light Cool Whip
Instructions
Cake
- Prepare angel food cake according to package directions. Allow to cool completely. Tear into small pieces. (If using purchased cake, move on to the next step.)
Cranberries
- Remove back 1/4 cup of cranberries for topping. In a saucepan, combine the remaining cranberries, water, and 1/2 cup sweetener.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Allow to cook on low for 10 minutes. Cool completely.
- While cooked cranberries are cooling, roll the remaining cranberries in 2 Tbsp sweetener.
Pudding
- Combine the pudding mix and milk in a medium bowl. Whisk until pudding thickens.
Assembly
- In 12 dessert glasses, layer half of the angel food cake pieces, half the cranberry sauce, and half the pudding. Repeat.
- Top with a layer of cool whip and fresh cranberries.
- Serve chilled.
WW Information
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This looks so pretty and sounds really good!