I guess I wound up making a cross between this and the Double Chocolate Mocha Trifle recipe also found on this site. I made a family sized pan of brownies, adding an extra egg for "cakelike" and cut into 1 inch cubes. Then I used a lovely cut glass bowl and drizzled each brownie cube layer with about 1/3 cup cold coffee. I made double the amount of chocolate pudding and made the cooked kind instead of instant, so each pudding layer was about 2 cups. I had two 8 oz tubs of Cool Whip on hand and used probably about 3 cups per layer. Finally I used about half of an 6 oz bag of Heathbar toffee pieces divided over each whipped topping layer. It was quite a hit. More than one person had seconds. I do think I will take anothers advice and use crushed oreo cookies for the crunchy layer next time I make it, and I will be making it again! Thanks!!

Reviewed On: Sep. 10, 2009

I made this casserole for our churches monthly get together after mass. I followed some of the other suggestings and melted the butter in my glass pan, added the (simply poatoes) hash browns, mixed and then patted into the bottom abd baked at 350 for about 35 minutes. I fried the onion with the sausage I used...couldn't find sage flavored so I just used Premio loose breakfast sausage. Also, I used 8 eggs. Otherwise I followed the recipe ingredients as stated and let it sit in the fridge overnight. In the morning I took it out of the fridge about an hour before, then baked for about 35 minutes. This was the best thing there! It went very quickly. Got lots of requests for the recipe. Now I'm looking for an excuse to make it again. Thanks so much!!!

Reviewed On: Sep. 1, 2009

I made this cake for the 3rd or fourth time today and I think I finally got it right! After viewing other comments here are the changes I made: Yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding mix, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup cold coffee instead of the water, and 1/2 cup sour cream. The cake looked great and tasted even better! It had just a little bit of a tasty brown crust, and was soooo moist. The dusting of powdered sugar was just the right touch. Thank you Lisa!!

Reviewed On: Jul. 16, 2009