This dish, which combines two of the finest flavors of the Christmas season, is simple to create and sure to impress. If you want to be fancy, pipe the whipped cream onto the trifle’s top layer. Since I usually take this dessert on the road with me and cover it with a lid, I simply apply a big, thick layer on top and then top it with some chopped dried cranberries and broken up gingerbread cookies.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 6 hrs |
| Total Time: | 6 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans evaporated milk
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
- ¾ cup lemon juice, or more to taste
- ⅔ (20 ounce) package Mexican Maria cookies (galletas Maria)
Instructions
- Combine evaporated milk, condensed milk, and lemon juice in a bowl; whisk until mixture is thick and smooth.
- Line a glass bowl or trifle dish with Maria cookies and cover them with a generous layer of the milk mixture. Add another layer of biscuits and milk. Continue the layering, ending with a layer of the milk mixture.
- Refrigerate for at least 6 hours, but better if overnight. Remove from the fridge just before serving.
Reviews
This recipe is supposed to be made with limes NOT lemons. It’s SO MUCH better with limes!
came out great! I used a tablespoon of lemon zest in the milk mixture and sprinkled crushed Maria cookies on top.
What a hit tonight for the taco buffet I fixed tonight for my neighbors!! I made 1/2 recipe ( just 6 of us ) Only thing I added was some lemon zest…..extra delicious….they all LOVED this. And so very easy to fix !! By the way….those cookies are available at Walmart!
So…some key steps are missing from the instructions. There is a step to ‘whisk until smooth and thick’. When I hear whisk, I think manually with a metal whisk. I tried this and nothing happened. The instructions should say to beat/mix in a electric mixer until it thickens. This took about 20 minutes for me. Other than that, the recipe was great.
I follow the recipe, but the cans of milk and condensed sweet milk were less, they were 12 ounces each. Made it for our Cinco de Mayo get-to-gather. Received a great many compliments on it.
I do not understand what I did wrong as I followed the recipe almost exactly. I whisked and whisked and even used an immersion blender when the whisking wasnt working, but the milk mixture never thickened. I have it sitting in the refrigerator at the moment, but it was impossible to layer a liquid with cookies, they are just floating in the bowl.
This dessert was so easy! We loved how bright and light the lemon was! Would definitely make again for a summer dessert with friends.
Delicious! I added some lemon zest. Couldn’t find Mexican Maria’s cookies so substituted vanilla wafers.
Easy and utterly fantastic! You must try this recipe, at least, once in your life!!
Very light and easy, would be a wonderful late spring – summer dessert because there is no baking in the oven. I made exactly as the recipe said. In the future I will top with fruit, probably some kind of berry . . . Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, huckleberries, etc.
After letting it sit in the fridge overnight, it still hadn’t set–never got thick enough to absorb the galletas. I’m going to try it again, because it was tasty, even though it was soup, and not cake. I have looked at other recipes, one called or cream cheese and mixing it in the blender. Maybe it will thicken better then.