Shortbread instead of sponge for trifle?

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I think this should work? Has anyone tried this before? Looking for easy alternative to making sponge

I think the texture would be all wrong. Can you not just buy some plain madeira cake, or some plain sweet muffins?

no

Yes I could. Just wondering if I could short cut that bit

No. I find shortbread a bit dull at the best of times.

I think it would be stodgy and/or crumbly and wouldn’t work!

I've never tried it but it sounds good.
I don't eat trifle because of the mushy sponge part (I like sponge cake, just not wet and cold!), but I can imagine shortbread being lovely. Although I suspect it would be more like a cold crumble

I don't think the texture would work, it needs to be soft. Can you not buy some sponge fingers?

Just buy trifle sponge fingers? That’s what they’re designed for! I like the idea of shortbread but the texture wouldn’t be right.

Hell no. I make shortbread and it's absolutely the wrong thing for trifle. Ladies fingers or sponge cake only.

No I think it would go grainy and horrible. I use lovely Italian fingers (savoiardi).

It sounds good, a fusion between trifle and cheese cake
This is how things are invented.

Good luck OP

This is absolute madness.

But shop bought Swiss roll works very well.

You could but I can't imagine what the texture would be like.

I mean, you could try it, you wouldn’t know until you did. But I’d think it was the wrong texture/consistency.

I am trying to keep our food upf free as possible and butter shortbread from the shops is generally just flour butter sugar. Whereas most shop bought sponge has lots of unidentifiable ingredients . Which is why I am kind of thinking shortbread or make my own sponge. I am not that strict though, could just get shop bought Swiss roll I guess

Na, yuck I'd say! I get that maybe you can't get to shops or don't have ingredients for quick egg/sugar/flour sponge but I think it would be a waste to use shortbread, is it a jelly/custard trifle? If so I'd just make it without sponge bits, if just sponge and custard then you're stuck alright until you can get something more suitable. I always keep the dry sponge fingers for tiramisu in press as they will do too for trifle in a push.

You could always follow Rachel's trifle recipe in Friends

Nope. It would be horrible.

'this is absolute madness' made me lol

I don't think it would work because it's not absorbent enough - you'd end up with a slightly soggy cheesecake type base, and the custard/cream would just slide off it. Just make a low-effort all-in-one sponge. Most shortbread from the shops has stabilisers and all sorts in there, anyway.

I usually do sponge, raspberry’s custard and cream. No jelly as prefer without that

Maybe just layer the fruit, custard and cream and serve the shortbread with it? That'd be much nicer than soggy biscuit.

finding It amusing how many people have commented! I mean that in a nice way - wasn’t expecting anyone to actually find question interesting enough to answer

Yes errolthedragon that probably is better

Or could serve with crushed shortbread on top cream at last minute perhaps