Million Dollar Trifle Dessert

I made a delicious dessert for today's family picnic (my parents, my sisters and their kids, my husband and our boys and their wives, and Zeke!!!) I can't wait! I even have a niece here from the the Left Coast, aka, "Californee." :) The weather is picture perfect - I'll post some pictures later! Anyway, this is the dessert called "Million Dollar Trifle." It is light and lush and good to welcome Spring...or to celebrate the beginning of Daylight Saving Day!

MILLION DOLLAR TRIFLE

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 store bought pound cake (vanilla or sour cream flavored, and you'll only use about half of the cake)
• 1 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 20 oz. can of crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 11 oz. cans of mandarin oranges (drained), save some of the orange sections to decorate the top)
• 1 small pkg. of Jello cheesecake flavor pudding
• 1 12 oz. container of Cool Whip (save some to "ice the top")

PREPARATION:

• MIX: cream cheese and powdered sugar
• FOLD IN: crushed pineapple and mandarin oranges
• ADD: Cheesecake jello and Cool Whip
• STIR ALL ABOVE WELL TOGETHER!!!
• Slice several pieces of the pound cake
• Cut the cake pieces into cubes
• Layer bottom of trifle bowl with cake cubes
• Add a layer of pineapple/orange pudding mixture
• Layer more of cake cubes
• Add another layer of pineapple/orange pudding mixture
• Cover with Cool Whip
• Garnish with Mandarin Oranges
• I made an M out of the oranges...which could stand for: Morton, Million $ Trifle, Marvelous, Mandarin Orange.....:)
Make one - it's easy and light and good!

Love y'all...Georgia Gran Jan