Dessert Recipes - After Christmas Trifle Recipe

Ingredients

• 8 thin slices of Christmas pudding or cake

• 30 ml/2 tbsp ground almonds

• 45 ml/3 tbsp port

• 30 ml/2 tbsp apple juice

• 600 ml/2 1/2 cups milk

• 60 ml/4 tbsp custard powder

• 45 ml/3 tbsp granulated sugar

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups double (heavy) cream

• Angelica

• 1 1/2 glace (candied) cherries

• 15 whole blanched almonds

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Method:

1. Put the pudding or cake in a glass serving dish. Sprinkle with the ground almonds. Drizzle the port and apple juice over and leave to soak for at least 1 hour.

2. Meanwhile, blend a little of the milk in a saucepan with the custard powder and sugar. Blend in the remaining milk.

3. Bring to the boil and cook for 2 minutes, stirring all the time, until thick and smooth. Cool, then pour into the dish and leave until cold.

4. Whip the cream until softly peaking and spread over the set custard. Cut some leaves out of angelica and three thin strips to represent flower stems.

5. Halve the whole glace cherry. Lay the three halves a little apart on the cream and arrange the almonds round to represent petals.

6. Put the angelica stalks in place and arrange the leaves to look like a small cluster of flowers. Chill until ready to serve.