I’ve decided to make a simple trifle as one of the desserts for Christmas Day. However, I practiced today and it wasn’t good!
I made the lady finger sponges (it needs to be gluten free). I thought this came out ok., then added summer forest fruits (from the freezer), would tinned / fresh fruit be better?
made up some Hartley strawberry jelly added it to my bowl and put in the fridge to set.
I made the custard from birds custard powder - it was very lumpy despite constant stirring and correctly measuring. I sieved it, cooled and added to the bowl after several hours in the fridge.
I then whisked some double cream, but it didn’t thicken so ended up using ‘Birds dream topping’ instead.
kept bowl in the fridge until this evening but it was a watery mess 😳
my lady fingers had completely disintegrated, the jelly didn’t seem set and the custard wasn’t great.
Can you share some tips please? I’d like to keep it as simple as possible as I’m making several other desserts for Christmas Day.