Can I have your trifle recipes please??

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That's it really...

Never made it and I probably need to. Please tell me what lovely things you put in yours.

chocolate muffins soaked with cherry brandy, a tin or jar of black cherries (I don't like the jelly bit, but I suppose you could put them in cherry jam), then mascarpone/custard mix, then whipped cream on top. And chocolate shavings.

mmmmmmm....

It's like black forest trifle - how very 70's?!

(cherry jam = cherry jelly)

That sounds fab. I can't bear trifle myself, but that actually sounds lush. Thanks.

I've just yelled TRIFLE at the top of my voice and opened my Chrimbo list to add it. Made DS1 jump a mile. Phew - nearly forgot.

Cheers!

Can't help with recipe btw - DH makes it.

a roundish bowl

place bought triffle fingers in the bottom - usually half a packet and then pour over a little orange juice and grandmarnier (or another suitable liquier or even good ole sherry)

Now empty a tin of fruit over the top with the juice, pick a tin of fruit you like strawberries, or mixed fruit etc.

Then open a carton of custard or fresh custard and pour this over the top.

Now whip up some whipping cream and plae this over the top of the custard - this part can be left until you are ready to serve the trifle as it will keep in the fridge better without the cream ontop.

Sprinkle flaked almonds over the cream if you like and serve.

Nice glass dish if you have one. Half a packet of broken up trifle sponges in the bottom, drizzle over a glass of sherry and add a drained tin of mandarin segments. Make a strawberry jelly from a block or sachet, using the leftover mandarin juice plus water and pour that over, making sure there's no dry bits left. Fridge to set. Make up custard a bit thicker than usual, let it cool a bit and pour it over. Back in the fridge. Once that is set, whipped cream on top.

Thanks ladies, so I should be able to make up the trifle the day before christmas, if I leave the cream off?

Chocolate marble cake in the bottom of a glass dish.

Drizzle with Baileys/Chocolate liqueur (whichever you've got - or Tia Maria or anything you like really!)

Cover with thick layer of custard into which you have melted a large bar of white chocolate

On top of that a layer of custard into which you have melted a large bar of dark or milk chocolate

Top with softly whipped double cream and then sprinkle with a crushed Flake

Glass dish. Sliced plain sponge cake, drizzled with a bit of sherry (though I use port instead). Lots of raspberries. More port. Custard (I use the fresh stuff from Waitrose rather than making); leave it to soak for a few hours. Whipped cream on top. Toasted almonds sprinkled over.

OR

Ginger cake, with that ginger wine stuff sprinkled over. Thinly sliced pears. Some stem ginger. Custard. Whipped cream. Stem ginger to decorate.

simple sponge cake cut into pieces, soaked with strawberry jelly leave it to set for a few hours, next layer will be strawberries9 we use both fresh and canned starberries and layer of jelly again often put sherry or baileys in it. next layer will be custard freshly made, let it set and then freshly whipped cream topped with chocolate curls. use vegtable peeler and peel chocolate blocks to make big long curls. yum, actually we are known by our trifle, our guest lick the bottom of the bowlbtw, dh makes trifles not me.

Glass bowl.

Either sponge fingers with raspberry jam spread on them or jam swiss roll. Could also use some crushed ameretti.

Lots of cream sherry poured over.

Frozen raspberries then placed on top of sponge. A drop more sherry.

Absolutely no jelly! Well not according to my granny anyway.

Then a layer of custard and place in fridge for 24 hours - this setting time is very important according to nigella.

Then layer finally with lightly whipped cream and sprinkle with almonds/crushed ameretti/edible glitter or whatever you have to hand.

No jelly; no, no, no. Although my mum's trifle does have jelly in and it is lovely!

Sorry - i'm very fussy about trifle

No to jelly and even more definite no to tinned strawberries - they give me the heebie jeebies.

Nearly cried at mil's trifle - dry sponge/tinned pears/lumpy custard and some evap milk to pour over. I'd said how much i loved trifle so had to eat a large bowl of it.

My mum's trifle had jelly in it and it too was lovely but possibly that was because she used real egg custard - and for posh trifle that is vital.

ooooh not cream sherry - yukky in a trifle it is tooo sweet must be the plain stuff for trifle. Agree no jelly but not jam either it goes all mushy and seedy. real egg custard is good - cant make it though so buy the posh stuff The ginger trifle sounds yummy

Oh no it has to be harveys bristol cream

Who would have thought trifle could be so divisive

What sherry do you use? Unless you go for dry don't they all tend to be rather sweet?

Dry is normal - cant be doing with the sickly stuff that looks like brown wood in a glass, like thoses aged aunts drink that cant get their knickers up on a Sunday - you know the sort.

i think it's delicious with vanilla custard in it.

Bugger, now I'm spoilt for choice! Yummy, Baileys, never thought of that. Think I'll end up mixing some of the ideas together. Oooh, my trifle might be a success after all.

queen delia