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

Reading the OP, I thought oh no it doesn’t sound nice, but after having a looking , it actually looks amazing , easy to make if you start making some things the day before.
i might give it a go,

I might buy one if it's in the shops in time but definitely wouldn't bother making one. I think it sounds nice but I'm the only person in our family who likes custard in any form, so it would be a ridiculous amount of calories effort for one person. If Tesco have an individual one I will try it!
I did think thry might pick something with more typically British ingredients though.

Love Trifle and this one looks delish!!

I think it sounds faffy but yummy. Am hoping waitrose come up with their own ready made version.

I always make a white chocolate and raspberry trifle at christmas, but would never put jelly in it.... it's a winner though as the bowl is always clean!

I thought the Bundt cake was the best overall, but I get the argument over the tin. Make a cracker of a 3 layer cake though, and could be easily modified.

My mouth watered just hearing it discussed. It looks and sounds wonderful!

The trifle is MUCH easier to replicate at home - using shop bought ingredients if you wish - than the admittedly lovely looking falooda cake which has very unusual ingredients like basil seeds, rose petal jelly and rose syrup. You can't get that in Asda round these parts. Or welshcakes.

Similarly with the passionfruit tart - making your own jelly with gelatine sheets is fiddly and a bit hit and miss.

All the recipes are on the BBC website should you wish to try any of them. Whether individual posters like or don't like trifle is neither here nor there - it IS a traditionally British dessert. And having read through the recipes for the other ones, the most easy to replicate at home with entirely shop bought ingredients, or partly shop bought ingredients should you wish to for example make some lemon curd (which isn't that tricky) but buy a Swiss roll and jelly.

I'll do my Jamaican ginger cake & lemon one instead. It always goes down a treat. Especially with a tot of rum poured over the cake.

@iklboo can you give the rum cake recipe please?

DH and I were just talking about this last night. We can't see it having lasting popularity like Coronation Chicken (which our local supermarket offers as part of their salad meal deal so we have it reasonably often).

@JaneJeffer - of course. It's all shop bought but you could make your own bits if you prefer.

Slice a Jamaican ginger cake & line the bottom and up the sides of your bowl. Add a good measure of spiced rum.

Make up a lemon jelly and when cooled, pour over the cake and leave to set.

Make a nice thick custard or use a tub of shop bought for speed. Let it cool then spread over the jelly. Put it in the fridge for a bit.

Whip up double cream, add a good glug of ginger syrup (the ones they use in coffee). Spread over the top.

Decorate with things like ginger matchmakers, crystallised ginger, crumbled ginger nut biscuits etc.

Oh - you could use limoncello instead of rum as well.

Thanks @iklboo I didn't realise you meant a type of trifle. I'm not a fan of trifle

Early on in the programme a woman who was involved in devising the original Coronation Chicken recipe recreated it. It's very different from what passes for CC now. No raisins. Apricot puree and a red wine reduction were key ingredients. I could easily see a Jubilee trifle getting adapted a lot to make it easier to mass produce, in a similar way.

OMG @iklboo your ginger/lemon pudding sounds delicious! I'm going to have a go at that this weekend!

Dh was watching it last night and I saw the end. I commented when I saw the finalists' entries that it was the only one that looked doable by the average home baker. Obviously things like she made her own swissrolls etc but you can buy them cheaply.
The others looked beautiful, and you might buy them from a professional, but weren't going to have the average person creating anything near. I suspect that's why it won.

I think it was the best one, in terms of the brief. But I hate trifle so I won’t be eating it.

I think it looks delicious! I'm unlikely to make it though as I'd be the only one in my house who'd eat it and I can't risk as I probably would eat it all.
Had a go at the ameretti biscuits today but they didn't work very well, I'm an experienced baker too.... I suspect I over mixed them and knocked too much air out. Anyway they taste absolutely delicious and I don't care that they're as flat as a pancake!

I love a trifle but am surprised it has been picked in 2022, it’s quite a retro pud. I can’t really imagine how the flavours work together either, I love amaretti but can’t see how it works with citrus flavours, I would’ve thought cherry would make a better match.

It reminded me of Deborah’s trifle from Bake Off 2013

It sounds delicious but one of the biggest issues I have with trifles is that it looks a mess on your plate if you spoon it out of the bowl.

I had lovely single portion ones. If I want something to impress I won't do a trifle.

I read the recipe and would say I can do all of it apart from the lemon curd I just can't get right anytime I try, it sound very time consuming and fiddly. I think I would go for some shop bought things and do some bits myself.

Compared to the Victoria Sponge and Coronation Chicken it seems quite complicated, not sure if it will stay in people's mind for more than a year. I like the thoughts behind the flavours and while they are not necessarily typical British, they incorporate lots of things we use, like lemon curd. Armaretto can always be changed to Sherry (not really British as well but more traditional in recipies).

It's a no from me. I hate mushy cake and trifles generally.

I bet any money it tastes like feet!

Sounds blooming delicious

Mmmm I would eat it if someone else made it.