Black Cherry Trifle
 
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Cuisine: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • Sugar
  • Madeira cake
  • Hartley's Black Cherry Jelly
  • 1 pint of water
  • 300g raspberries
  • 1 jar of raspberry jam
  • Homemade custard (or cheat and buy ready made)
  • Double cream or a can of whipped cream
  • 1 lemon
Instructions
  1. Make the jelly according to the instructions and leave in the fridge to set
  2. Wipe a wedge of lemon around the edge of a glass dish
  3. Dip the dish into sugar moving it around until the rim is covered in sugar, set to one side.
  4. Add half a jar of the jam in a saucepan along with the raspberries and heat gently for 5-10 minutes.Then leave to cool.
  5. When the jelly is set cut the Madeira cake into 1 cm slices are place at the bottom of the dish.
  6. Spoon the raspberry syrup over the cake.
  7. Then spoon a layer of jelly into the dishes.
  8. Top with custard.
  9. Top with whipped cream and decorate with fresh raspberries, chocolate, nuts or a simple bright red cherry!
  10. Chill until ready to serve.
Notes
Jazz this up with a dash of cherry liqueur in the jam & add morello cherries instead of raspberries. Top the trifle with curls of chocolate.
Recipe by Cherished By Me at https://cherishedbyme.com/2014/12/black-cherry-trifle/