Italian Desserts Recipes - Trifle (Zuppa di Inglese) Recipe

Ingredients                                 

• 4 eggs

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 30 ml/2 tbsp corn flour (cornstarch)

• 900 ml/3 1/4 cups milk

• Grated rind and juice of 1 orange

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup plain (semi-sweet) chocolate

• 1 slab plain cake, thinly sliced

• 60 ml/4 tbsp medium dry sherry, or half sherry and half kirsch

• Grated chocolate

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Method:

1. Whisk together the eggs and sugar in a saucepan. Blend the corn flour with a little of the milk. Stir in the remaining milk and add to the saucepan with the orange rind.

2. Bring to the boil slowly over a gentle heat, stirring all the time until thickened. Do not boil rapidly or the mixture will curdle.

3. Pour half the custard into a separate bowl. Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave or over a pan of hot water and stir into the saucepan of custard.

4. Put a layer of one-third of the cake in the base of a round glass serving dish. Mix the orange juice and sherry together and drizzle a third over the cake.

5. Spoon over a third of the plain custard then a third of the chocolate custard. Repeat these layers, finishing with a layer of chocolate custard.

6. Cover and chill for several hours until set. Sprinkle with grated chocolate before serving.