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Disclaimer:\u00a0 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.<\/em><\/p>\n If you’re planning a party anytime soon, then this pumpkin spice custard trifle is the answer to your prayers.<\/p>\n Not only is this absolutely delicious, it’s super simple to make, easily feeds a crowd, and you can totally make this the night before.<\/p>\n I completely understand if you want to nominate me for the Nobel Peace Prize after this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don’t know about you guys, but I’m actually one of those people that checks Google to find out the pumpkin spice latte release date.<\/p>\n Yup.\u00a0 That obsessed.<\/p>\n So much so, that I bought all the fixings to make my own pumpkin spice lattes at home.\u00a0 But it wasn’t enough to have the pumpkin spice in my morning coffee.\u00a0 I sought ways to spread the pumpkin spice love to things I could share with the rest of the family (I’m the only one that religiously drinks coffee every day.)<\/p>\n And then one day, the kids were asking for custard and I thought, what if I made a PUMPKIN SPICE custard?\u00a0 And since I usually make custard for trifle, the next thought that naturally followed was, what about a pumpkin spice custard trifle?<\/p>\n And a star was born.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excuse me, Hi, can I take a bath in this custard trifle?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Not hygienic?\u00a0 Darn.<\/p>\n I got the idea to use Candi by Lu biscuits<\/a> for the layers of the custard trifle at a potluck I went to a few years back.\u00a0 This was back when I actually WENT to potlucks, before Kit was born and I only had Beau to take with me.<\/p>\n Oh, why don’t I take Kit to potlucks?<\/p>\n Because the last time I took him over to a neighbor’s house, he tried to make their 1 year old his “horsie” and sat on him.<\/p>\n *sigh*\u00a0 This is why we can’t go to nice places.<\/p>\n Can we just have a moment of silence for my lost social life?\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n So back to the Candi biscuits.\u00a0 At this potluck many moons ago, one of my friends brought over this awesome made-from-scratch chocolate custard trifle and she’d used Candi and Marie biscuits for the layers.\u00a0 OMG sooooo good!\u00a0 The biscuits had this awesome texture that was a nice change from the typical cake layer.\u00a0 I love that Candi biscuits are made with brown sugar, because it works so well with the pumpkin spice custard.\u00a0 If a brown sugar cookie is not available where you live, you can substitute with soft ginger cookies<\/a>.\u00a0 If you’re using hard ginger snaps, make a simple sugar syrup (like I did for this mint lemonade<\/a> recipe) and spoon a bit out over the cookie layers to soften them.<\/p>\nAn Obsession with Pumpkin Spice<\/h2>\n
Building the Pumpkin Spice Custard Trifle<\/h2>\n