Strawberry champagne trifle

Name: Strawberry champagne trifle
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: iced water; 100 ml champagne; 1 Custard recipe; 2 leaves of gelatin, soaked in; 400 g strawberries, topped and sliced; 40 g caster sugar; 200 ml double cream; 25 g amaretto biscuits, crushed; 4 strawberries, topped and quartered; 25 g caster sugar; 8 sponge fingers; 50 ml sweet sherry

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple to Sensational

By Jun Tanaka

Published 2010

About

You can’t get more English than strawberries and champagne. This is a real summer pudding when strawberries are at their best. For a cheaper option, try replacing the champagne with sparkling wine.

Ingredients

400 g strawberries, topped and sliced
40 g caster sugar
1

Dessert
Summer
Sensational

Method

Place the strawberries in a heatproof bowl with the sugar and place on a pan of simmering water for about 1½ hours. The strawberries will release a lot of juice.
Make the Custard and chill in the fridge.
Place a fine sieve over a bowl and pour the strawberries into it, allowing all of the juice to drain into the bowl. Warm the juice in a pan over a lo