Rhubarb crumble trifle
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus cooling
- More effort
- Serves 8 - 10
Ingredients
For the poached rhubarb
- 800g rhubarb, cut into 5cm pieces
- 100g caster sugar, plus 2 tbsp for the whipped cream
- pared zest and juice ½ orange
- a few splashes grenadine (optional) - this is to endure that the rhubarb has a lovely pink colour
For the trifle
- 75ml Disaronno
- juice 2 oranges (about 150ml)
- 8 trifle sponges
- 140g mascarpone
- 500g pot vanilla custard
- 600ml pot double cream
For the crumble topping
- 25g butter, softened
- 50g plain flour
- 25g demerara sugar
- 25g whole almond, roughly chopped
- 50g jumbo oats
Method
- STEP 1
Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Arrange the rhubarb pieces in a large roasting tin. Sprinkle over the sugar, orange zest and juice, grenadine and 150ml water. Cover with foil and bake for 25-30 mins until tender but not mushy. Scoop the rhubarb out of the tin into a sieve and reserve any juices, then leave to cool completely. Tip the rest of the liquid into a saucepan, along with the collected juices, and bring to the boil. Simmer for 15-20 mins or until reduced and syrupy. Leave to cool completely.
- STEP 2
To make the crumble topping, rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine crumbs, then stir through the demerara sugar, almonds and oats. Tip onto a baking tray lined with parchment and bake for 15 mins, shaking the tray every so often, until golden brown, then cool.
- STEP 3
Mix the Disaronno and orange juice together in a shallow dish. Dip each sponge into the liquid, leaving it for about 15 secs on each side, then arrange them in the base of a large trifle dish. Tip the mascarpone into a bowl and whisk until soft and smooth, then add the custard, a little at a time, and mix until combined. Arrange half the rhubarb pieces on top of the sponges, discarding the orange zest. Drizzle over 2 tbsp of the rhubarb syrup and top with half the custard mix. Follow with another layer of rhubarb, 1 tbsp of the syrup, and the remaining custard.
- STEP 4
Whip the cream and 2 tbsp sugar to soft peaks and dollop over the custard. Drizzle over the remaining rhubarb syrup, along with a scattering of the crumble topping. Tip any extra crumble into a bowl and pass around the table.