Quick Trifle - A Trifle Rushed
A quick assembly party dessert using ready made jelly.
Servings: 8
Equipment
- Electric Mixer
- Big Glass Trifle Dish
Ingredients
- 600 ml Fruit Jelly 6 x 100g shop bought pots
- 6 sponge finger biscuits
AKA ladyfingers or “boudoir” biscuits?
- 400 ml custard I used tinned here
- 1 instant gelatine sachet
- 250 ml whipping cream
- sprinkles
- 75 g Jelly sweets or real fruit
Instructions
- Tear off the lids of the ready-made jellies and tip into a glass dish. Mash the jellies to spread them out.
- Break up the biscuits and push into the jelly. Repeat with chunks of fruit or jelly sweets.
- Warm half of the tinned custard on the hob and when heated tip in the instant gelatine.
- Stir furiously to avoid lumps. If you get lumps it can be successfully pushed through a sieve. Add the remaining half of cold custard and pour into a wide flat dish and leave to cool completely.
- When the custard has cooled, loosen around the edge of the solid mass with a knife and tip onto the jelly. Don’t panic if it breaks, it’s going to be covered up.
- Using a hand held or stand-up electric mixer, whip the cream for several minutes until it thickens. Spread with a wide knife over the surface of the custard making sure you reach the edges.
- Add sprinkles and serve. No one will ever know the difference.