Trifle is a dessert made with fruit, a thin layer of sponge fingers or sponge cake soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, and custard. It can be topped with whipped cream. The fruit and sponge layers are suspended in fruit-flavoured jelly, and these ingredients are usually arranged to produce three or four layers.
Serves 6 – 8
Ingredients
- 1 pt green jelly
- 1 pt red jelly
- 1 tin pears or peaches
- 1 swissroll (bought or home made)Jam or Chocolate
- sherry or rum to taste
- 2 cups thick custard
- 1 cup pecan nuts – crushed
- 125ml cream
- glazed red cherries – chopped (to garnish)
Instructions
- Dissolve jelly according to package, separately.
- Leave overnight to set.
- Drain pears or peaches – keep syrup.
- Cut in pieces.
- Cut swissroll and line a round glass dish with 1/2 of cake.
- Sprinkle over some fruit syrup as well as some sherry or rum.
- Cut jelly in small blocks and spoon over some green jelly.
- Spoon over a layer of custard and some fruit and nuts.
- Spoon over some of the red jelly.
- Repeat layers with cake, green jelly, custard, fruit, nuts and red jelly till all finished.
- Beat cream till thick and garnish trifle with cream and red cherries.
Recipe Courtesy of Epicurious