This was my first attempt at Trifle Pudding. Looked & tasted yummy. I remember it from Dibba times. Amma's a fantastic cook. She used to invite 2 dozen people and cook all day and churn out these unbelievably tasty dishes. Trifle was one of them. We had a potluck today and I'd decide to give this fav dessert of mine a shot. Its fairly simple and cannot really go wrong. Holiday season = 5 extra pounds already. I better hit the gym before I gain back all those fat cells I'd struggled to lose.
Here you go:
Ingredients:
Sponge/Pound Cake - 1
Whipped mixed fruit jam - 4 tbsp
Sugar Syrup/Orange Squash - 2 Tbsp
Bananas - 3
Apples - 2
Seedless Grapes - 100 gms
Lemon Juice - 1 Tbsp
Fresh Cream - 250 gms
Powdered Sugar - 3 tbsp
For Custard:
Milk - 1/2 Cups
Vanilla Custard Powder - 1 Sachet
Sugar - 1 Tbsp
For Jelly:
Cherry or Strawberry flavored
Jelly Packet - 1
Water - 1 1/2 Cups
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Method:
1. Take a glass dish of 3 inches deep.
2. Cut cake in to thin slices and arrange a thin layer inside the dish.
3. Sprinkle little syrup or squash or milk to moisten the cake.
4. Apply jam evenly on top of the cake.
5. Cut apples and bananas in to thin slices, apply little lemon juice to prevent discoloring and arrange half of the pieces on top of the jam layer.
6. Mix custard with half a cup of cold milk.
7. Heat rest of the milk with sugar till dissolved.
8. When it starts boiling, pour dissolved custard and keep stirring in medium flame till thick custard is formed. Remove from fire.
9. Keep stirring to prevent skin formation.
10. Pour half of that on top of the fruit layer.
11. Repeat the layers once again on top, first cake, jam, fruits and then custard.
12. Keep it in the fridge to set.
13. Decorate with grapes, whipped cream using piping bag.
Variations:
- tinned fruits (drained) instead of the fresh fruits.
- Used the syrup from the tinned fruits to soak the cake instead of orange squash/milk.
- Used Vanilla Pudding Pie/Filling instead of the custard
- Set the Jelly separately and cut it into diamonds and used it at the top of the layers (Remember: Jelly takes about 4 hours to set)
- Used cherries to decorate the pudding after spraying dollops of whipped cream over the jelly. I did this at the end just before serving.
