Please help I've fucked a trifle

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Making trifle for someone as a surprise. It will be as I don't know how to make one. I got about 8 Sainsburys square-ish trifle sponges in a bowl, layered tinned fruit and syrup from said fruit on top. Made 2 pints of jelly (big bowl), left it to cool, it was a bit warm to be honest. Poured it in. Sponges floating on the top will not sink.

What did I do wrong? How can I get those sponges to sink? Bricks? So depressed this has cost me about a tenner getting all the ingredients and it already looks like a car crash with sponge.

In the anals if it was made with beef sauteed with peas and onions maybe?

Oooooh thanks MitziK, I'll nip down to Morrisons next week and look for it!

Great thread, OP! It looked really good in the end.

I laughed out loud and woke up DH at "It'll go down in the anals of your family history"!!

Here's the missing 'n'. I found it nibbling on a silver ball. Bad n.

If you have liquid from the tinned fruit, you needed to reduce the amount of liquid to make up the jelly.

Bung it all in a bowl with whipped cream, add crushed maltesters, nobody will know it was ever a trifle.

Ahh, missed the photo, looks marvellous, Prue would love yer piping!

It looks lovely

Never would have thought one trifle would bring so much joy to so many. You are a lovely, lovely mum. Well done.

Now I want trifle. :)

It'll be fine! I love trifle (and that story, funnily enough) and I've made millions of them. I've had dissolving sponges and floating sponges and all kinds of nonsense, but they've always tasted lovely.

Don't whip the cream too stiff if you're putting it over ready-made custard. The RM custard is always quite runny, so very stiff cream will just sit on top in weird lumps.

And only add the silver balls right at the very last minute, or the silver colour will melt off and you'll be left with pale balls (fnar fnar) and slightly grey cream.

I DID have pale balls Molly, and I nearly broke my bloody teeth on them!

Oh! Look at me not RTFT! 🤪🙃

Well done, OP, that looked perfect!

That looks exactly like the one in the story (at least how it looked in my imagination). My DGM makes the best trifle. Sponge, raspberry jam, raspberry jelly with sherry, custard (Edmonds here but I suspect that’s Birds in the UK), whipped cream and then a sprinkling of chocolate hail in a ring on the top. Always. As a child I wished and wished and wished for one with jelly sweets and silver balls.

First thought was American Pie.

Followed shortly after with half a shepherds pie/half a trifle

no help whatsoever

Next time try broken up chocolate brownies as the base.

You're welcome.

That was a very satisfying conclusion to a fabulous thread, well done OP, you are fabulous and a lovely mummy!

You've truly made my boring work day fabulous as I've sat here snorting with laughter catching up!

It looks gorgeous! Well done OP. A very sweet thing that your DD will remember that you took the time to do.

If you ever fancy making trifle again, I do a dead easy ginger and orange one with Jamaica Ginger cake st the bottom and it always sinks!

Op you are lovely.

Really want trifle now, and I have a spare ginger cake in the freezer so would love that recipe @sawyersfishbiscuits

Beela-

It's very basic 😬 But does taste yummy.

I use Jamaica cake, orange jelly and tinned clementines in juice for the base. You can use the juice when making up the jelly. (You could also soak the ginger cake in a bit of Cointreau).
Then layer up in the usual way. I crumble ginger biscuits on the top and also pop mini gingerbread men standing up in the cream on top.

Sometimes I use a cutter to cut the Jamaica cake into a shape to stick to the side of the trifle dish so you can see it through the glass, which looks nice.

It's dead easy but tastes soooo nice!

I want to make trifle today now!

Ooh lovely, thank you.

Ginger and orange trifle here I come

OK so I have to share the so-called "English trifle" they had to make on the French Bake-off programme... does yours look this bad OP?

That looks vile VoteJadot looks like pancakes stacked with fruit with jelly balanced on top

It wasn't one of their most successful challenges, no...

What a lovely mum and thread!
I bought all the ingredients to make a trifle for Easter weekend, but DIY in the kitchen meant it didn't get made.
It's definitely getting made today.
I use jam Swiss roll, tinned fruit cocktail, red jelly (half a pint).
Drain the juice from the tinned fruit and add to the jelly.
Soak the sponge in sherry while making up the jelly.
Ready made custard, whipped cream or dream topping.
Put sprinkles on when dished up in individual bowls.(.if you're not eating it all at once it's rainbow vomit.)
NO SILVER BALLS! Lethal to teeth.

By the way it's really difficult to get hold of just jam swiss roll, but Tesco sells them.
I'm definitely going to try the ginger cake one, too. Thanks to previous poster.
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This thread has reminded me of the year we hosted family Christmas.

I had managed to make a trifle which DS could eat - allergic to milk and egg. Home made biscuits in the base, custard made with soya milk etc. I was really pleased I'd pulled this off and was looking forward to seeing DS (about 6 at the time) pretty much face-plant into it in delight.

This being Christmas, there had been a lot of making in advance, and I'd made the mistake above of putting the sprinkles on so the colour had come out of them as described.

None the less I was very pleased and proudly brought it to the table.

MIL said it looked mouldy.

Lol I thought you had sex with a trifle!!