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

The amaretti biscuits are the closest thing to ratafia biscuits which were a traditional ingredient in trifle and go back to the 1700s or earlier.

I love trifle and don’t give a shit about the jubilee. However lots of people who DO give a shit will make this, or a variation of, and supermarkets will make their own versions I’m sure.

You could cut down the faff by buying Swiss roll and lemon curd

the only abomination was that travesty of ruined Welsh cakes.. proper welsh cakes are made on a bake stone.

I liked the sound of the trifle and pegged it as the winner from the start.
The falooda rose cake had too many unsual/inaccessible ingredients in
the bundt cake needs a special tin
Passionfruit is a bit marmite
and that four seasons thing just looked like a bloody mess.

Of the five things, I thought this was the easiest to adapt to a version of it that was vaguely like it. Its a citrus trifle. You could buy all the elements and just assemble it, or swop out bits you dont like and replace. Or go all out and make it all and have it look very fancy.
I thought it was a good choice. Helps that I love trifle 😁

Lovely dessert. It deserved to win. Love a trifle

Love the sound of the flavours. Never made trifle and was thinking I’d give it a go but I agree with pp that it’d probably be a right mess on a plate by the time you’ve scooped the necessary component bits out for each serving.

You eat with your eyes first…..

@BlancmanegeBunny

DD entered this competition and she deliberately went for an idea that was really simple to make and could be done using ingredients easily obtained in the supermarket.

She did several batches that were all subtly different and we had taste tests with the family to choose the best variant.

Then she went to loads of trouble with the photography to make it look appealing. We had hopes.

Anyway, I don't think she made it anywhere near the shortlist as she had an email several weeks ago saying it hadn't been selected.

Hence we bear a grudge against all the finalists! I am sure a little old lady of 96 might have found DDs pudding easier to get down 😁

Trifle is the arsehole of puddings

’Have’ to eat? I’m sorry that you are the ‘subject’ of a country that forces you to eat different types of food. Where would that be?

I must disagree. I love a sherry trifle at Christmas. Not sure about this lemon one though

Love trifle, glad it was the winner, although I’m hoping M&S or any other supermarket, make an equivalent so I can just buy and eat! 😆

I thought jelly was a constituent part of trifle?
PPs say not?

I thought jelly was an essential part of trifle too, @SweetAnnieRich, but I gather from innumerable bloodbaths discussions about this over the years that others regard it as the Devil's ingredient. Bringing peace to the Middle East would be a picnic compared with reconciling these two warring factions.

I understand that it's a bit er common to use jelly in one's trifle. Is that right ?

I expect so! For quickness, my mum sometimes used a Bird's trifle mix that came in a packet and involved hundreds and thousands. No idea why, as she makes a cracking trifle now. Always involves jelly poured over the trifle sponges and tinned fruit (jelly made up with juice/syrup from the tin topped up with boiling water). Then custard, then whipped cream, and often glace cherries on top. My trifle is similar but with a generous glug of sherry on the sponges first, and I might add sliced banana in the custard (no glace cherries on top either).

This is just over the top. It’s far too fussy and won’t ever be a classic. The Great British Menu has the best deserts. Some of them are amazing snd not a soggy sponge in sight. Is anyone really going to make this? No one will remember it in July.,

I'm planning to make it, or a close approximation.

Oh, banana custard, used to love that. Alas, age has decreed I can no longer eat bananas. Very annoying. I recall my mum buying those trifle mixes on occasion although she used to hand over the construction to my sister and I. As I write this I realise this was a ploy to distract us from interfering in any more elaborate cooking taking place.

Really not sure about citrus flavoured trifle. I could deal with just lemon but orange and mandarins, just no.
I make a world class strawberry trifle using Madeira cake and tinned strawberries, an old family recipe with a secret ingredient in the custard. Family members have been known to do minke raids on the fridge if I’d made one. I introduced my DH’s family to it one Christmas and it became a “must “ have over Christmas.
I think that DH would seriously consider divorce if I presented him with a mandarin abomination.
However, I may tweak it ( remove the orange and mandarin, and reconfigure the amaretti biscuit part. I love lemon and almond pollenta cake so I’m thinking add a layer of this to soak up the lemon jelly and add some almond liqueur to the jelly. Then make the custard more light and airy (mousse) with a layer of cream to finish. No Swiss rolls will be used but a drizzle (generous) of lemon curd would be good on top of the cream with toasted almonds to finish.

I suppose a few token tinned mandarins on top to finish so they can be optional.

Rachel Cooke has made it for The Guardian. Not an enthusiastic for several reasons.

Since when have tinned strawberries been "world class"? Well you're not short of confidence, maybe you should have entered the competition?

I am a decent baker and I followed those fucking Royal cupcakes 2 years ago and they were a total shit show and were fucked and now I will never; ever, ever trust the royal bakers and their recipes. Bastards.

I don’t particularly like trifle but the flavours in this one means I would try it. I like lemon and amaretti so appeals.

But again she has chosen to make the entire thing, from scratch, and not buy lemon curd or custard and amaretti biscuits.

"Melvin insists that it’s fine to cheat. Buy a jar of lemon curd, a box of Italian biscuits and a tub of ready-made custard, she urges nervous cooks. To do this, however, would render the whole exercise pointless, wouldn’t it? You might as well buy a Colin the Caterpillar cake from M&S and have done with it."

🙄 Hardly. But then again she's a Guardian journalist, a newspaper which isn't best known for its overwhelming support of the monarchy.