Brunch with lady friends calls for something special. Since I am on a huge trifle kick I decided to figure out how to make a breakfast worthy trifle...not too sweet and hopefully with some granola for crunch! After looking around on the trusty internet for ideas I came up with this beautiful concoction of brunch-worthiness...the Lemon Blueberry Muffin trifle!
You will need:
1/4 c. room temperature butter
3/4 c. lemon cake mix
2/3 c. oatmeal
1 c. plain granola
one dozen mini blueberry muffins*
three large blueberry muffins*
1-32 oz. container Greek vanilla flavored yogurt
1-16 oz. container Greek vanilla flavored yogurt
2-10.5 oz jars lemon curd (reserve about 2 tbsp. to drizzle on top)
zest of one lemon
1 lb. blueberries
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, cut the butter into the lemon cake mix until crumbly. Lightly toss in the oatmeal and granola. Spread on a cookie sheet and place in oven for about 10 minutes or until the mixture is brown and cake mix crumbles are firm. Remove from oven and allow to cool on counter (make sure it is totally cool before adding it to the trifle). Cut the tops off of the three large muffins and save for later. Cut the bottoms of large muffins and the mini muffins into bite size pieces and set aside. Mix both yogurts, the unreserved lemon curd and the lemon zest in a large bowl.
Now you can layer! Muffins, yogurt mixture, blueberries, crumb topping. It depends on how big your trifle is as to how many layers you can do. My second to last layer was the yogurt and then I arranged the muffin tops for the final layer. I filled in the cracks between the muffins with blueberries and crumb mixture and then drizzled the reserved lemon curd on top of it all!
*I bought mine from Target...Archer Farms brand. Very much approved of by my boys! If you do buy them just make sure the large muffins have pretty tops!
Just a quick note. I had one friend who couldn't attend so I made her a mini trifle in a small wide mouth mason jar! I had a fourth muffin top I used for the "lid". It was so cute! I wish I would have taken a picture!!
