Trifle, this is a dessert I was brought up with, very traditional in England and my mother used to make it for a lot of her grown up events, by grown up events, I mean, it has alcohol so as kids we were only allowed a “taste” ❤ .
A good friend Lucy Henderson sent me a message yesterday asking me for my mother’s recipe, which of course I forwarded to her but was then left with this mmmmm feeling (you foodies know what I mean), so I decided to make it for dessert for tonight’s dinner.
Well as life has it, I got to the supermarket and of course, could not find lady’s fingers which are the main ingredient for this dessert (some people use pound cake or sponge cake but I like it better with lady’s fingers). Anyway, for a second there talking with my daughter, I thought I might have to come up with plan B (no plan B in my head at the time of course 🙂 ! )
Then I saw these new Lemon Nilla Wafer cookies and it suddenly occurred to me that why not go out of the box and make a Limoncello Trifle instead! We are huge lemon lovers in our house so that would work out perfectly!
So below is a list of the regular ingredients and what I replaced them with:
- Lady’s Fingers – used Lemon Nilla Wafers
- Rum and coffee – used Pink Limoncello
- Vanilla Pudding – used Lemon Pudding
- Strawberry Jam – used Raspberry jam – decided that Lemon and Raspberry would be the perfect combination!
- Whipping cream – oh look at that, this one is still the same! 🙂
