QUICK STRAWBERRY TRIFLE

Yield: 8 servings

1/4 c Sugar, divided
2 pt Fresh strawberries, stemmed and halved
4 oz Softened cream cheese
2 c Whipping cream
1 Purchased pound cake
Melted raspberry jelly to taste
Sherry (optional)

Fold 1/8 cup sugar into sliced berries; set aside. Beat the remaining
1/8 cup sugar into cream cheese. Whip cream until stiff peaks form;
then fold cream cheese into cream. Cut cake into slices about 1/3"
thick. Arrange a layer of slices in the bottom of a glass bowl;
sprinkle with a teaspoon of sherry and spread with melted jelly. Then
put in a layer of strawberries and a layer of cream. Continue
layering, ending with a layer of cream. Garnish with a whole berry.