Mango, Passion Fruit and Banana Trifle

Name: Mango, Passion Fruit and Banana Trifle
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 banana; 5 passion fruit; 250 ml (9 fl oz) whipping cream; 2 mangos, peeled and stoned (see page 25); icing sugar, to taste; 500 g tub custard; 50 ml (2 fl oz) rum; toasted coconut flakes, toasted flaked almonds or more passion fruit pulp and seeds, to decorate; juice of 1 lime; 300 g (10½ oz) bought sponge cake; 4 tbsp lemon curd

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Forget tinned fruit and bottles of sherry, this is the best trifle you will ever taste. Use a good tub of fresh custard to make it.

Ingredients

2 mangos, peeled and stoned (see page 25)
5 passion fruit
1 banana

Dessert
Drinks
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Cut the mango flesh into cubes or slices - whichever you prefer. Halve the passion fruit and scoop out the pulp and seeds. Slice the banana neatly.
Now you just have to assemble the trifle. Cut the sponge into wide fingers and spread each one with lemon curd. Put a double layer of these curd side up in the bottom of a glass bowl. Sprinkle with half the rum, the