Anyway, yesterday we had a choir social... I sing in a choir called the Cockleshell Chorus and we are fairly new so we had a bit of a get together yesterday... and at 4 o'clock I remembered I promised to bring a desert, which meant a quick trip to the supermarket and the basics range got raided. You may remember that a few years ago the Sainted Delia published her How to Cheat at Cooking and the furore that engendered but in the words of Shirley Conran, "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom." Cooking from scratch is great but there is no shame in using pre-prepared foods when you are caught short or are in a hurry... and be honest when was the last time you made rough puff pastry from scratch? For me it was doing my Domestic Science O level which I realise is 40 years ago!
From your store cupboard, grab:
A jar of Cherries in Kirsch
A handful of flaked almonds
At the supermarket you will need to grab the following:
A 600 ml tub of double cream
A 500 ml tub of custard
A packet of chocolate fingerellas
A small bar of plain chocolate
Take you trifle bowl which doubtless your mum gave you and is tucked at the back of your crockery cupboard (wash it because a spider will have been in there since you got it out at Easter) and break up the chocolate fingerellas into bite size chunks.
On a tray scatter your flaked almonds and toast them under a grill until lightly browned - watch them as the oil in the almonds makes them turn very quickly and you don't want burnt offerings.
Take the cream and whip it up in another bowl until it is firm, do not overbeat it as we do not want to make butter but is should be firm enough for you to be able to turn the bowl upside down over your head without the risk of you wearing it!
Take your chocolate and grate it into the cream, fold it in and add more chocolate... and repeat until your cream is evenly speckled with chocolate.
Pour the custard over the top of cherry and sponge mixture.
Take spatula and spread the cream on top of the custard, start from the middle and work outwards.
Pop it into the fridge. Before serving, scatter the toasted almonds on top of the trifle and grate some more chocolate on top.
Now eat!
As you recover from your yummy trifle, take a look at Handmade Monday and see what everyone had been making in the last week.
Oh, yum, I love trifle and this one is soooo gorgeous - many thanks for the recipe. Hope you have a good week.
ReplyDeleteOo, I do love trifle! It's soooo retro and yummy
ReplyDeleteSurely it is how the pudding tastes - not how it is made that matters. This looks truly yummy. xx
ReplyDeleteMy tummy is rumbling.....
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that spiders always like to hide in bowls !!!
ReplyDeleteI'm really sorry but for me trifle has three of my most hated foods - cream, custard and soaked sponge.
However according to my other half your trifle looks delicious xx
Have you been in my cupboards- how else can you have known about the spider in the trifle bowl. Brilliant post!!
ReplyDeletemmmm trifle....I'm in, it looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteThat'll be trifle for me then please and I'm so glad you didn't put jelly in it. I've not grated chocolate in to the cream on a trifle before so I may try that the next time I make one.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely week.
ooh I have to say I have some non-handmade trifle in the fridge that I am now decidedly ashamed of!!
ReplyDeletetrifle is always a winner and definitely a favourite in our house! yours looks gorgeous i'm sure it was enjoyed :) x
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh.....this looks so yummy! I will definitely try this recipe. Thank you so much for sharing it!
ReplyDeletePat :)
What a great recipe - the spider was obviously waiting for a taste.
ReplyDeleteI should know better than to read through food based blog posts late at night. It always makes me hungry. It does look delicious though.
ReplyDeleteOh my god! I NEED some of that scrummy looking trifle! Are you allowed to drink the rest of the liqueur from the cherries?! Simmi x
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This sounds absolutely delicious. Thanks for posting and sharing this recipe.
ReplyDeleteSimon
This sounds absolutely delicious. Thanks for posting and sharing this recipe.
ReplyDeleteSimon