Zuppa Inglese

The Italian Version of the English Trifle

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Classic Italian Cooking

By Valentina Harris

Published 2008

  • About

This is absolutely nothing like an English trifle, but very delicious nevertheless—I often wonder which came first, the English or the Neapolitan version! What is amusing is that the name, translated literally, means English soup—which has never struck me as being terribly complimentary!

Ingredients

  • 10 tablespoons of your favorite liqueur
  • 10 tablespoons dark rum

Method

  1. Mix the rum and liqueur in a bowl and pour half into a second bowl. Strain the ricotta into one of the two bowls and mix the alcohol and the ricotta together thoroughly.
  2. Grate the chocolate and mix about one third of it into the ricotta mixture.
  3. Place the granulated sugar and the vanilla extract in a small pan with the water and melt together until yo