Are you looking for a tasty but elegant end of the meal, in a word: instagrammable? Bet everything on trifle, a dessert of English origin, which is characterized by two characteristics: it is composed in layers and directly in the glass or in the jar.
Do you want to learn how trifle is made? Below we give you the basic recipe, with ingredients and procedure, while in our gallery, you will find many curiosity and a few tips to prepare numerous variations, one tastier than the other.
Trifle: the ingredients
To prepare the trifle, here's what you need to get: 165 g of 00 flour, 165 g of butter, 200 g of milk, 130 g of whipped cream, 400 g of strawberries, 80 g of yolk, 265 g of sugar, 3 eggs , 8 g of instant yeast, 120 g of fresh cream, 1 sheet of gelatin, 150 ml of orange juice.
Trifle: the process
Let's start from Sponge Cake. To get it, take a bowl and whip the sugar with the butter at room temperature. When the mixture is soft, add the 3 eggs, one by one, and continue mixing. Add the flour by sieving it, together with the yeast, and continue mixing from the bottom up. Now, take a cake pan with a zipper, butter and flour it and pour into your mixture. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for about 45 minutes.
Now it is time to prepare the English cream. In a saucepan, pour the milk and fresh cream, bring almost to a boil. In a separate pan, mix the yolk and 60 g of sugar, then add the milk with the cream already heated. Move the pan over the heat and cook over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Bring the temperature of the mixture to 82 ° C (use a kitchen thermometer). While it is cooking, let the gelatin sheet soak, ready to be combined, squeezed, with the cream removed from the heat. Mix everything well with a whisk and pour the cream into a bowl to cool it.
Now you have to prepare the strawberries: wash them, clean them and cut them into pieces. Pour them into a pan, add 40 g of sugar and orange juice, cook over medium heat for about ten minutes.
Meanwhile, remove the cake from the oven, let it cool down, cut it into slices of about 1 cm and a half and then cut each slice into 4 pieces.
Take the cup or glass and start composing the trifle: wet each piece of cake in the strawberry compote, to make it wet, and place the bottom layer. Put a layer of strawberry compote, then a layer of cream and repeat for two other identical layers.
Decorate with a layer of whipped cream and refrigerate for another two hours to cool.
