TWD~ Vivano Trifle

Two teenage girls, favorite place to go? The mall.......nope, not these girls! We would rather go to Starbucks and dissect there food trying to figure out "how its made"!

I know that sounds rather weird to some of you, but its the truth!

So a few weeks ago when we were at Starbucks, we saw their advertising for the two new Vivano Smoothies; Mango orange, and chocolate banana. While we were enjoying sipping our coffee, I saw on the billboard advertising this beverage "add espresso for $.??!" Oh! I thought, Tuesdays with Dorie! Banana, Chocolate.................bingo coffee! Great combo!

So we decided that we were going to take this ordinary recipe out of the ordinary.....................a Vivano Trifle!

So how did we create this fantastic trifle? Well first it was kind of a mistake, we were planning on doing something a little different then a trifle (I won't say, just in case someone picks another quick bread sometime!) anyway we put the batter in muffin tins and baked them................we must not have filled them quite full enough though because they were rather short :o) Thus the invention of the trifle....................we made Dorie's Pastry Creme filling with the coffee variation. Then whipped that up with a tub of cool whip. We then layered banana bread/espresso drizzle/whipped topping mixture/ a sprinkle of Hershey's espresso chocolate bar cut into small chunks. Repeat! It was good! Everyone would taste it and say...........um chocolate.................coffee! Wait a minute I taste banana!