Name: Black Forest trifle
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500ml tub ready-made chilled custard – look for one with real vanilla seeds; 100g plain chocolate broken into pieces; 400g chocolate brownies; 2 x 390g jars cherries in kirsch or similar; 300g tub double cream; 200ml tub crème fraîche; 25g icing sugar; grated chocolate to decorate, and fresh cherries (optional)

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Black Forest trifle

Black Forest trifle

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 25 mins

Cook: 5 mins

Plus cooling and chilling

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James Martin's indulgent trifle won't keep you in the kitchen for long but will impress guests at your next get-together

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Ingredients

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500ml tub ready-made chilled custard

– look for one with real vanilla seeds
100g plain chocolate

broken into pieces
400g chocolate

brownies
2 x 390g jars cherries

in kirsch or similar
300g tub double cream
200ml tub crème fraîche
25g icing sugar
grated chocolate

to decorate, and fresh cherries (optional)

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal723
fat52g
saturates31g
carbs62g
sugars55g
fibre2g
protein7g
salt0.34g

low

Method

step 1

Put the custard into a pan with the chocolate pieces. Gently heat, stirring, until the chocolate has melted into the custard. Cover with cling film and cool.
step 2

Arrange the brownies in the base of a trifle bowl. Drain the jars of cherries, reserving the liquid, and scatter over the brownies. Drizzle over 100ml reserved liquid. Spoon the cooled chocolate custard over and chill while you make the topping.
step 3

Lightly whip the cream with the crème fraîche and icing sugar until soft peaks form. Chill until ready to serve, then pile on top of the trifle and decorate with grated chocolate and fresh cherries, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2010

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