Homemade trifle is a traditional British thing for after important meals but there are countless ways to do it so what is your\your family’s recipe for a traditional trifle?

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1. Cake soaked in booze at the bottom, then jelly, then cold custard, then cream on top. Fruit pieces in the jelly optional. It’s shit tier dessert tbh.

2. I prefer a more tiramisu-like trifle – exact recipe I made is at home but something like this https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/desserts/tiramisu-trifle

3. It is traditional to put loads of sherry in it, leave it on kitchen counter then everyone get worried about cat who has found trifle and eaten the whole thing.

4. Don’t forget the layer of minced beef.

5. Gotta say guys, most of these sound foul. 🙁

6. I dunno, I think of trifle as pretty freeform. I like it to have a lot of alcohol in it, mainly. Everything else is optional.

7. Jelly and some tinned fruit mixed in, then custard, then whipped cream with hundred and thousands on top.

   Under no circumstances should sponge/cake/lady fibgers be added, as it just goes all horrible and soggy. You wouldn’t dunk a slice of cake in tea, so shouldn’t add anything which goes soggy in jelly.

8. Its easy.

   Go to shop.

   Buy a ready made one.

   Eat it.

9. I received compliments on this year’s trifle using Bon Maman Lemon Madeleines and soft Amaretti biscuits as the base and saturating it with a cocktail of equal parts brandy, cognac, rum, port and sherry, cover with M&S custard, defrosted Fruits of the Forest with cassis, whipped cream, flaked walnuts and a crunchy Amaretti biscuit atop each serving.

10. No fucking jelly.

    Beyond that, not too fussed and we always let MIL get on with making one.

    Good sponge, not dried-out over-sweet lady’s fingers.

    Shedloads of booze. Amaretto, for example. Or port.

    Chocolate custard and/or plain custard of perfect smoothness.

    Whipped cream. Chocolate shavings and/or nut flakes.

    Any fruit to be not wet from tinned juice and ideally soaked in booze. Cherries in kirsch, for example.

    No jelly nor grapes. Nor hundreds-and-thousands if you’re over five.

11. Packet of Birds. Bosh.

12. No jelly.

    Raspberry Swiss roll, soaked in sheet
    Raspberries
    Custard
    Cream