bigfoodiemama

So last night I had the pleasure of a night out in Newly Single's house with the FA, the Queen of Baking and the Blonde. Newly Single is now in fact one year single, so I may have to consider renaming her. She provided the curry, and myself and the Queen provided dessert, mine being glorious Trifle and hers Chocolate Buns decorated with green icing spelling out Happy St. Patricks Day !....brilliant. The truly astounding thing about them, apart from the fact that they tasted divine, was that credit for the sponge was given to none other than Betty Crocker !!!!I managed to keep to my Lenten promise and stuck to sparkling water, as did the FA but the other 3did their damndest to drink on our behalf, leading to a point when the blonde tried to pour a bottle of wine with the screw top still on. The conversation avoided all truly important issues and dealt mainly with the trivial, entertaining and downright rude....just for a change. Much mirth was gleaned from the Queen recounting a sto...

As I had made a large lemon cake for eldest son's birthday, and there was only three of us to eat it, there was a lot left so ( never one to waste food)I used the sponge to create a trifle. This came to me as Fat Freddie was coming to lunch and after Lemon Meringue Pie, Sherry trifle is his favourite. Now he hates those dry, gelatinous individual trifles, he only likes it from the side of a great big bowl of trifle, particularly on it's second day when all the flavours have married. So off I went, spreading cherry jam on the sponge and placing it in the base of a fabulous Crystal bowl. I drained two cans of fruit cocktail ( shock horror....not fresh fruit). I mixed the syrup with a good measure of rum ( sherry ran out) and poured this sweet heady syrup onto the sponges. On top I spread the fruit, a layer of jelly and then a layer of custard. I repeated these steps until the bowl was a myriad of colours and spread a layer of lightly whipped cream over the top. I put this in the ...