English Trifle
- 6 egg yolks
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 cups milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut
- 2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 2 bananas, peeled and sliced
- 2 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 cup Triple Sec
- 6 ladyfingers
- 3 tablespoons raspberry jam
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- First, make the custard: In a bowl, beat the egg yolks and sugar until light.
- Stir in the cornstarch.
- In a saucepan, scald the milk (do not boil it).
- Whisk the hot milk into the yolk mixture, then pour this back into the pan.
- Cook, stirring, over low heat until the custard thickens.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
- Pour the custard into a bowl and set aside to cool completely.
- While the custard cools, combine the cut-up fruit with the Triple Sec.
- Set aside to macerate for 30 minutes.
- Spread the flat sides of the ladyfingers with jam, and place them in the bottom of a pretty glass bowl.
- Spoon the fruit and any liquid over the ladyfingers.
- Pour the cooled custard over the fruit.
- Refrigerate, covered, until the custard has set.
- Beat the cream with the sugar until it holds a fairly stiff peak.
- Spread the whipped cream over the chilled custard, reserving some of the cream to pipe decoratively through a pastry tube, if desired.
egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, milk, vanilla, pineapple, strawberries, bananas, kiwifruit, triple sec, ladyfingers, raspberry jam, heavy cream, sugar
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/english-trifle-384813 (may not work)