Strawberry Trifle
"I love the way a trifle looks and tastes. This one is so pretty with the red strawberries and cream. Use leftover poundcake instead of the sponge if you have that on hand."
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 4 egg yolks
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup amaretto liqueur
- 1 cup light cream
- 2 sponge cakes (9 inch layers, the kind that come pre-baked)
- 1⁄2 cup sherry wine
- 1⁄2 cup strawberry jam
- 1⁄4 cup toasted slivered almonds
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- 1⁄4 cup toasted slivered almonds
- strawberry, kept for decoration
- mint leaf
directions
- In top of double-boiler, beat yolk and sugar until well-blended.
- Add vanilla; stir in milk, liqueur and cream.
- Place over boiling water and cook, stirring constantly, until custard is thick enough to coat back of spoon, about 15 minutes.
- Place plastic wrap directly onto surface of custard (this is to prevent a skin from forming) and cool.
- Place a layer of sponge cake in your prettiest cut glass or crystal serving bowl.
- Sprinkle cake with ¼ cup of sherry; spread with ¼ cup strawberry jam and dollop with ½ of custard.
- Sprinkle with ¼ cup of almonds.
- Repeat with remaining layer.
- Whip cream with 1 tblsp of icing sugar until stiff peaks form.
- Top trifle with whipped cream.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve (can be prepared 1 day ahead).
- Remove from refrigerator a half hour before serving.
- Decorate with almonds, strawberries and mint leaves.
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Reviews
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It's too pretty to eat! This was fun and simple to make. Very sweet, but not too much. This is something I would recommend making if you are trying to impress anyone: Pot Luck/church dinners, having guests over for dinner.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
