Shelly's Recipe

STRAWBERRY TRIFLE

Category: Trifles

1/4 cup sugar, divided
2 pints strawberries, hulled, halved
4 oz cream cheese, softened
2 cups whipping cream
1 pound cake, sliced
Melted raspberry jelly
Sherry
Whole strawberries, for garnish

Fold 1/8 cup sugar onto sliced berries; set aside. Beat remaining 1/8 cup sugar into cream cheese. Whip cream until stiff peaks form and fold cream cheese mixture into whipped cream. Arrange sliced cake in bottom of a glass bowl; sprinkle with a tsp sherry and drizzle with melted jelly. Add a layer of strawberries and a layer of cream. Continue layering, ending with a layer of cream. Garnish with a strawberries.