The Royal Jubilee Trifle

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Who's going to make this at home? A fiddly trifle full of home made this and thats, it looks very pretty and also like a time consuming faff, destined to be poked around on plates as people fish out bits they like or don't like. Poor winner.8

My thought was while it's accomplished it's not very topical. There's nothing either British or Platinum about it.

I'd have preferred a winner that used more British produce (I didn't watch the programme, just saw the winner on the news). We have fantastic fruit and liqueurs so why go for what seems mostly Mediterranean ingredients? Never mind the Swiss roll!

swiss roll/Sponge fingers, lemoncurd, tinned oranges, tinned custard,

hardly difficult

I have it in mind to try this but to incorporate a meringue element, possibly by using lemon roulade instead of Swiss roll, or using tiny meringues to decorate the top. Don't fancy the chocolate bark.

I've never liked trifle. The soggy sponge at the bottom is something I always found horrible, even as a child.

As a vegetarian, I wouldn't go for normal jelly either as it is a meat product (usually beef).

I think the other offerings were better, but I am not really a baker so won't be making any. All were far too fussy for me.

I watched the programme last night and didn't really fancy any of the offerings.
I think the winning trifle could possibly be divine if all made from scratch by an expert chef, but pretty rank if constructed from ready-made ingredients.
I thought it was disappointing not to see anything using British-grown fruit, for example.

The Scottish lady used Yorkshire rhubarb and Scottish soft fruit.

Isn't it supposed to be lemon custard, not "normal" custard? I don't know about anyone else but I've never seen ready made lemon custard on sale anywhere. Could you add some lemon flavour of some sort to normal custard?

Some lemon rind and lemon flavouring would do the job. Or lemon curd added to ready made custard.

I'd have thought so.

Apart from the jelly and cream I quite like the sound of it. I wouldnt have a hope in hell of making it but I might try and buy the component parts to chuck together

I'm not a fan of jelly in a trifle but will no doubt make a trifle based on the flavours in this that weekend. It works for me, and I agree that trifle is a quintessentially British pudding (the italians call it zuppa Inglese).

I think it sounds abd looks yummy....

I also think the reason it won was because you can basically buy alot of elements pre made and just put it together. You can do as much as you like home made so everyone can have a go.

Some of the other recipes had unusual or expensive ingredients and of course one you would need a special tin. This did seem the most sensible choice.

Nope. I might get a Birds packet one 😄.

It looks absolutely disgusting. Glad I'm not a British subject and don't have to eat that

I thought it looked absolutely beautiful. All the puddings did, amazing work by all the finalists. I would love to try that trifle, obvs won't be making it myself as I don't do puddings really. And anyway, I will be baking a cake for the big day - it's also my mother's 91st birthday!

The original recipe just adds a teaspoon of lemon extract to a standard custard recipe, so you could do that to a tin of Birds presumably. Sounds horrible but then I don't like custard so am not a good judge.

I don't find it very inventive. Trifle is a predictable choice, and nothing new. One of the main ingredients is Italian, neither lemons nor mandarins are native to the UK. I thought the pudding that celebrated British produce was much better, in theory. Also tinned mandarins are revolting

I bloody love trifle and lemon puddings (and tinned mandarins too) - and it obviously tasted delicious to Mary Berry and chef Monica Galetti whose taste buds I trust over some random MNers...

I like the fact it can be assembled too. I probably won't make it because I could do without the extra calories and am on holiday for the jubilee but I might do a simpler version. Or just eat a lemon swiss roll.

It's basically a glorified English trifle easy as well a trifle bit of Italian tiramisu inspo super easy to make tasty no faff whatsoever unless u can't be bothered in which case just buy one or don't? Who cares

I thought the whole point of the competition was to create a pudding that didn't exist before now. Like, the Victoria sponge was made for Queen Victoria, and coronation chicken for the Queen's coronation. The pudding that won yesterday looks lovely but we've all been eating trifle for years. Since the idea is that we can all make this pudding ourselves, it was pretty clear in last nights programme which would get picked. The others were far too complicated although lovely.

I’m sure M&S will have a go at selling one. I did look at the recipe last night and there’s about 500 steps, I don’t think many people will be arsed making one.

It wouldn't be too bad to make if you assembled bought components rather than making them all from scratch.

I can't see it becoming an everyday thing like Coronation chicken.

For me it doesn’t work for a street party. It would look messy quite quickly?

a family meal maybe.

You could make individual ones perhaps?