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  1. Sometimes the old ones are the best! Sticky caramel, juicy raspberries and soft sponge cakes combine in this traditional dessert.

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  3. A quick, tasty British pud with English strawberries and a creamy vanilla filling, with Swiss roll and topped with…

  4. Try this fabulous recipe for a regally themed trifle with strawberries, raspberries, rose jelly and vanilla custard. Top…

    Total time: 4 hrs 30 mins

  • This Gordon Ramsay dessert is most definitely a boozy trifle! Prepare ahead and leave in the fridge to allow…

    Total time: 2 hrs 45 mins

  • The delicious balance of cherries, almond cake and cardamom cream turn this twist on the traditional trifle…

    Total time: 3 hrs 50 mins

  • If you’ve got guests who don’t like the traditional Christmas Pudding, or if you fancy something a little…

    Total time: 20 mins

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  • A classic English dessert, but with a celebratory twist of pink champagne, grapefruit jelly and delicious almond sponge.

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  • ‘This trifle recipe came from my mum and it’s really good for parties. Blueberries are full of vitamins and…

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  • These festive custard desserts with a mixed berry compote are perfect after your Christmas dinner and there’s…

    Total time: 40 mins

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  • Creamy, fruity and crunchy all at once – this frozen version of a traditional favourite makes a handy standby…

    Total time: 20 mins

    (plus freezing overnight)

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  • Quick layered desserts with a crunchy biscuit base, a low-fat creamy custard middle, then topped with sweet…

  • For a quick, simple dessert with a twist, try this elderflower trifle. Elderflower cordial is found in most…

    Total time: 25 mins

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    Total time: 40 mins

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  • Lesley Water’s ice cream trifle pudding, made with ginger cake, is quick, easy and a great way of using your…

  • Use Madeira cake as the base for this classic sherry trifle recipe which also uses fresh rhubarb, sweet sherry…

    Total time: 25 mins

    + 30 mins chilling

  • A quick, tasty British pud with English strawberries and a creamy vanilla filling, with Swiss roll and topped…

  • Watch and follow along in this video as the Woman’s Weekly cookery editor, Sue McMahon, creates a delicious…

  • This fancy trifle tastes best with fresh raspberries, although frozen ones are not a bad substitute once their…

  • Make this as one big trifle or individual versions. For the kids, swap the whisky and almonds for orange juice…

    Total time: 4 hrs 30 mins

  • This sumptuous trifle looks impressive – but only takes 15 minutes to throw together. How’s that for a dream dessert?

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  • If you’re not keen on boozy trifles or you’re making it for children, try replacing the sherry with…

  • A great get-ahead dessert that’s just perfect chilled with Marsala.

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Date bread

If this looks familiar, it’s because it is almost identical in every way to a Banana Bread For Dory (q.v.) but it uses dates instead of bananas.

I wanted to try this out because my friend Becky B brought over a sticky date cake the other day and it reminded me of the packet of dates in the larder I had been meaning to use to make a sticky toffee pudding, but have never quite found the excuse for.

It’s also because I do LOVE that banana bread recipe but quite often don’t find I have quite the right number of overripe bananas to justify it. So I wondered if it was possible with dates. And it is! It is still a sort of date bread, rather than a cake, because it’s not especially sweet, which I think is a good thing. You could definitely spread this with butter, for example. Like all cakey/breads that are not a sponge, this keeps very well in tupperware for a few days.

Becky B did a terribly clever thing with HER date cake, which was to soak it, in the manner of a lemon drizzle cake, with a caramel sauce that she bought from Waitrose – it was Bonne Maman, she said: “Confiture de Caramel”. She thinned it with some hot water, pricked the cake all over with a skewer and then went MAD with the sauce. It was really, really fab. My mother always says that things that other people have made for you are always more delicious than something you have made yourself, but still – Becky B is a terrific cook.

You can also make your own caramel sauce if you are that sort of person – there is a recipe somewhere on here, have a rummage.

So here we go

Date bread

150 veg oil
200g dark brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
250g dates
75g natural yoghurt
1 tsp bicarb of soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
225g wholemeal spelt flour (get it from Waitrose)
2 tbs caster sugar or cane sugar

1 Pre-heat your oven to 170C and butter a 2lb loaf tin and line it (YES you must do this, don’t be lazy) and line a baking sheet, too.

1 In a bowl whisk together the oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs

2 Chop up the dates roughly then put them in a bowl and pour over boiling water to just cover them. Leave them to soak for 20 mins then drain them and sort of gently mash them through the sieve to get out most of the water.

3 Add the youghurt to the dates and mix together. Sprinkle over the bicarb of soda, baking powder, and salt and stir again.

4 Mix the date mixture and the sugar/egg mixture together. Then sprinkle over the flour and stir until things are only just combined. Over-mixing is disastrous here so stop as soon as you can’t see any more flour. Spoon the batter into your smugly-lined tin.

5 Sprinkle some sugar – caster, cane or granulated -down the spine of the loaf and then put in the oven.

7 Bake for 45-50 mins.

HOW is Kitty, people say to me. How is she, how is she? I don’t talk about her that much any more because she is just off my hands. She turns two in February but she has been off since she turned 18 months old and could walk, talk, ask for things, watch tv, sit and draw or look at her books, play imaginary games with her stuffed animals, scoot around the kitchen on her little trike and so on. She is an actual person these days and it’s such a relief, I can’t tell you.

When I look back on some of the darker things I wrote when she was small I feel awful, so guilty. But it must have been bad for me to write those things, it must have been like that. She’s now this little chattering pixie, everyone wants a piece of her, everyone wants a smile and to hear her squeak “I’m knackered!” – her first party trick.

I used to dread her waking up in the night – the thought of it made me feel actually sick with anxiety. Now sometimes I wake in the night and hope that she might wake, too and need me. But she never does.

Here is a picture of Kitty with her bunny, her hair a bit wild from her nap. Note how she is gripping the bunny quite hard round the neck – I think she is trying to get him to tell her where the chocolate is. I can get pictures printed on t-shirts, mugs, bags and mousemats for a small fee if anyone is interested?

Though I can see the benefits of babies, I suppose. They are not constantly after your iPad and whatever it is that you are eating. And they don’t have a massive fucking tantrum when you try to stop them from doing incredibly dangerous things.

 

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