Christmas Trifle - Ben's Farm Shop

Ingredients

• 4 handfuls of dried fruit – try a mix of figs, prunes and apricots
• ½ cinnamon stick
• 3 cloves
• Zest and juice of 2 oranges
• 300ml whole milk
• 300ml double cream
• 1 vanilla pod, slit in half and seeds scraped out
• 6 egg yolks
• 3 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1 packet trifle/savoiardi/ladyfinger biscuits
• 100ml Piedra Luenga PX or similar sherry
• 1 packet amaretti biscuits
• 15g flaked almonds, toasted
• Seeds of ¼ pomegranate