TRIFLE – Strawberry, Port, Peach, Pineapple, Passion Mango, Hot Swiss, Raspberry

This cutting from the Herald Sun Checkout cooking page says ‘any old trifle is dead easy, but a “great” trifle has mystique’.  A trifle overdone perhaps, but a good trifle is a great summer dessert.  These versions seem to have come from the inaugural ‘Great Trifle’ competition – unsurprisingly not a competition that’s around anymore.  Equally I’m not quite sure of how these recipes would work today, but there’s some interesting combinations in them!!!!!

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CASSATA CHRISTMAS PUDDING

The easy way to make a Frozen Christmas Pudding is just to soak fruit in brandy and stir it through softened bought ice cream and then re-freeze it.  While this recipe does use bought ice cream it takes the frozen pudding concept a bit further by separating the three colors in  neopolitan ice cream adding cake and Marsala soaked fruit which turns it into a Cassata  Christmas Pudding.  Now I’ve found it in Mum’s collection I’m thinking of making it myself this Christmas.

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