Sherry Trifle

Name: Sherry Trifle
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons plain (all-purpose) flour; 4 eggs; 500 ml (17 fl oz/2 cups) milk; 2 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; strawberries or raspberries, to decorate; 4 slices Madeira cake, pound cake or trifle sponges; 60 ml (2 fl oz/¼ cup) sweet sherry or Madeira; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) whipping cream; 250 g (9 oz) raspberries; 25 g (1 oz/¼ cup) flaked almonds, to decorate

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

4 slices Madeira cake, pound cake or trifle sponges
60 ml (2 fl oz/¼

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the cake slices in a glass serving bowl and sprinkle with the sherry. Scatter the raspberries over the top and crush them gently into the sponge with the back of a spoon, leaving some of them whole.
To make the custard, combine the eggs, sugar and flour together in a bowl. Heat the milk in a saucepan, pour it over the egg mixture, stir well an