Simple, light but ever-so-delicious, with a little help from supermarket friends
Cheat's Black Forest Trifle with cherries, brandy, custard & cream 'Fantastic taste' 'Cream very light' 'Sponge chocolatey but not dense' |
The English are masters of trifle; they have a way of layering fruit, sponge, custard and cream in all the right proportions -- all prettified in the most attractive way.
This is a quick version of trifle
Black Forest Trifle: Aerial View |
it's not healthy at all but it is extremely appealing to the palate.
67 made a really quick chocolate sponge --so easy the kids can make it for you. Once cooled, it was brushed with cherry juice and brandy and covered with tinned cherries. A layer of quality supermarket custard followed then lashings of whipped cream. Piping the cream and scattering some nuts or grated white chocolate added eye-appeal.
Obviously, this can be made with home-made custard or Birds Eye.
Supermarket sponge can replace the home-made version.
Cost: £5, less with Bird's custard
Feeds: 8-10
Ingred:
Home-made Sponge
6 oz/175 gm self raising flour (plain flour, add 2 tsp baking powder)
4 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder (NOT drinking chocolate)
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
4 oz/125 gm caster sugar
5 fl oz/150 ml sunflower oil
5 fl oz/150 ml milk
2 large or 3 small eggs
OR one supermarket sponge, vanilla or chocolate
1 tin cherries in juice, separated OR 2 generous handfuls fresh cherries, stones removed
1/4 cup cherry or regular brandy OR white grape juice
2/3 pint whipping cream
1 1/2 tbsp icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
500gm good quality supermarket custard or home-made or Birds
Optional Garnishes:
toasted flaked almonds (5 mins in a med oven; watch for burning)
grated baking chocolate, white or brown
glace cherries briefly soaked in boiling water (to remove preservatives) then soaked in brandy/grape juice for half an hour
Equipment: if making your own sponge: 9x13 inch/23x33cm pan lined with greaseproof paper
large presentation bowl, pref. see-through
Method:
- Preheat oven to 160c/325f
- If making own sponge, put all ingred into a big bowl; beat with wooden spoon, whisk or electric beaters until smooth, dark brown & creamy (a few mins with electric beaters; longer by hand). Bake 25 mins; a cocktail stick in the centre should come out clean. Cool; remove greaseproof paper.
- Line bottom 1/3 of trifle bowl with sponge, cutting pieces to fit
- Mix 1/2 cup tinned cherry juice & 1/4 cup brandy; brush liberally over sponge (if using fresh cherries, replace with cherry brandy)
- Scatter half the cherries over sponge, pushing some to the outer edge
- Top with half the custard
- Repeat layers 3-5
- Whip cream to soft peaks; add vanilla & icing sugar; blend; pipe or drop by spoonfuls onto top of trifle
- Scatter a few flaked almonds, chocolate flakes and glace cherries if using
- Chill a few hours or overnight
Comments taken at a party for residents of the building:
Tip:
- 'Fantastic taste; not too sweet and the cream was very light.'
- 'loved the little bits of fruit; the sponge was chocolately without being dense and the cream wasn't heavy.'
- 'the cherries made it a bit different; you don't often get something so juicy in trifle.'
- 'It reminded me of the days when one always had Black Forest Cake as a treat at a restaurant; lovely'
Tip:
For a more frugal trifle, try World's Fastest Trifle
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