Trifle

How to make a easy trifle from scratch!

Part 1. The cake

Very simple pound cake recipe. This cake doesn't need to look pretty, just needs to taste nice and soak up all the juice in the trifle.

Ingredients:

1 egg

3 tablespoons self raising flour

3 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

-beat the sugar, egg, vanilla essence and oil together, until it turns a light yellow colour.

-add the flour and combine until there are no lumps

-cook in the oven at 180 degrees C for 20min (I used a muffin tin so the cakes cooked quickly, about 12min)

Part 2.

Jelly. Thanks Hartley's jelly. I used strawberry Jelly, that I made the other day

Part 3. 

Strawberry Syrup. You can use anything you want, basically there needs to be something for the cake to soak up. Traditionally it's boozey, but I prefer a fruity taste.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons of strawberry jam

2/3 cup of water

Method:

-heat the water and jam in a saucepan over a medium heat until it thickens to a syrup

Part 4.

Custard. I have been trying lots of ways to get a really smooth, low fat custard. This one is my favourite. 

Ingredients:

2 eggs

2 cups milk (I used 1 cup soy milk and 1 cup skim milk)

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

-heat the milk, sugar and vanilla essence over a low heat

-whisk the eggs until frothy

-just before the milk reaches a simmer pour it over the eggs, while whisking

-return the mixture to the saucepan and slowly heat, whisking, until the custard thickens

Part 5. 

Cream. I added some sugar and vanilla essence to some whipped cream :)

Part 6. 

Raspberries, strawberries would have been nice to keep to the strawberry theme, but I didnt have any...

Assemble the Trifle!

This made, 6 individual portions.

-Place the sponge (in small pieces) on the bottom of the serving dish

-Pour a spoonful of the strawberry syrup over the sponge

-Place some raspberries over the sponge

-Put some jelly on the berries

-Pour some custard over the jelly, try to cover all the jelly and berries

-Finish with whipped cream (I sprinkled some chocolate over mine too)

-Enjoy!

Its not that hard at all to make trifle from scratch. 

I cant wait to enjoy one tonight after training.