Top with fresh fruit such as strawberries and blueberries and Optional: dust with a light sprinkle of icing sugar to finish. Drizzle the sponge with 5–6 tbsp of the cherry syrup, until lightly soaked. Reserve 6 of the cherries for decoration and scatter the rest over the sponge. Pour the chocolate custard on top. Cover and chill for 2–3 hours, or overnight, until the custard is softly set. It's so easy to make your own homemade whipped cream using cream, vanilla extract and caster sugar. Growing up, my family always used Bird’s Custard Powder in our English trifle. However, it’s hard to find where I live, so I went ahead and made the custard from scratch. I really do love pudding, but for this dessert, I insist on using custard. There’s something about the beautiful aroma of custard that reminds me of the house we lived in before coming to America. I savor it. Mixed fruits: Add your favorite fruits to the trifle pudding! Fruits like apples, mangoes, papaya, chikoo (sapota), figs, pomegranate are my go-to options. I sometimes add berries too to give the trifle more flavor and texture. According to Ayurveda you should avoid combining citrus fruits and melons with milk. It is also believed that the combination of bananas and milk cause lethargy, but I still added bananas as they taste delicious in this recipe.

Serving: A long handled ladle or spoon is best to scoop through all the layers and dish up each serving with an even amount of each layer. Editor’s tip: Cut the dessert base into small pieces or squares. This will make assembly a breeze. See how it’s done in our Chocolate Strawberry Punch Bowl Trifle. Step 3: Add a creamy layer

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Drizzle the liquid (Cointreau or fruit juice) over the top of the cake. Step 3 - Add Half Of The Jelly Drain the cherries, reserving the syrup. (If the cherries contain stones, you may wish to stone the cherries at this point, especially if serving children – you can do this by poking with a skewer, halving the cherries and removing the stones, or using a cherry stoner. Otherwise, leave the stones in place and warn people before they begin to eat.) Grated chocolate- nothing completes a trifle like agood sprinkling of grated chocolateover the top! Either milk or dark chocolate work beautifully in this recipe. Add another layer of cake using the remaining cake slices, drizzling over 2 tablespoons of cranberry juice. Then, add one third of the fresh fruit and the remaining jelly squares. Fresh strawberries- summer is the perfect time to make this strawberry trifle! Fresh strawberries are absolutely bursting with flavour and make this trifle recipe extra sweet and flavoursome.

Cake: You can use lots of different cakes to make trifle recipe. My Applesauce Cake, Eggless Vanilla Cake and Eggless Chocolate Cake are some great options. You can also use day old cake or buy cake from the supermarket or bakery. Store your trifle in the refrigerator, tightly covered. If cared for properly, trifle should last three days. After three days’ time, the integrity of the dessert will reduce; however, it will still be tasty and safe to eat. How do you make a trifle custard set? Make ahead dessert - trifle requires overnight chilling as this allows the cake to soften, the layers to set and the flavours to develop. This is the perfect dessert for Christmas Day as all the hassle (not that there is much hassle with trifle!) is taken care of the day before. Add one third (approximately 1 and 1/3 cups) of the fresh berries on top of the cake, along with half of the jelly squares. Then, pour over 1 cup of custard.

Christmas Jelly Cake - I love this festive green and red layered dessert. It's a fun recipe to make with the kids and looks fantastic served on the Christmas dessert table.

Use hand-held beaters, a stand-mixer or a Thermomix to beat the cream, vanilla and sugar until soft peaks form. As mentioned above, you will want a few harmonious ingredients that can make distinctive and tasty layers. Here’s what we used for this trifle, but please note you may need more of each item, depending on the size and shape of your vessel. Ingredients For those that may not have had trifle before, it’s basically a messy no bake dessert comprised of fruit, custard and cake. It’s typically considered an English dish, which makes sense as Australians love many classic British desserts, like Eton Mess and Banoffee Pie.

Because you are brushing the cake with sherry, you want the cake pieces to be small enough to soak it up. I sliced my cake in half horizontally.