Sherry Trifle recipe | Classic Recipe | Woolworths TASTE

Ingredients

• 1 x 200 g vanilla sponge cake, loaf
• 1 cup sherry 1
• 50 g icing sugar
• 40 g toasted almonds, plus extra to garnish
• Toasted pistachio nuts to garnish
• Maraschino cherries to garnish
• For the poached fruit:
• 420 g caster sugar
• 1½ cups white wine
• 1½ cups white Port or Hanepoot
• 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways
• 2 pears, peeled and cored
• 4 apricots
• 2 nectarines
• 125 g summer berries
• 8 gelatine leaves, softened in cold water
• For the crème pattisière:
• 2 cups milk
• 120 g caster sugar
• ½ vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
• 6 free-range egg yolks
• 40 g cake flour
• For the creamy cheese topping, whip together:
• 100 g mascarpone
• 1½ cups double cream
• 1 T icing sugar