The basic traditional English Trifle recipe calls for ladyfingers or stale sponge cake (often soaked in sherry, port or Madeira), fruit or some fruit jam, creamy custard and fresh whipped cream, all layered until they reach the top of the serving dish. It's the modern descendant of a Medieval fruit and custard fool and a close relative of the cream and sherry dessert known as a syllabub (which was a dessert inspired by the frothy 16th century syllabub drink of wine, cream, sugar and lemon juice.)
With my Raspberry Trifle Martini I've taken the main ingredients and combined
them into a liquid trifle in a glass.
The
RASPBERRY TRIFLE
MARTINI
INGREDIENTS
2 Oz. Pinnacle Cake Vodka
1/2 Oz. White Creme de Cacao
1/4 Oz. Sweet Sherry
2 Oz. Raspberry Puree
Juice of 1/4 Lemon
Garnish: 2 Cubes of Sponge Cake (or Ladyfingers), Chocolate Syrup, Whipped Cream
Tools: Blender, Metal Strainer, Cocktail Shaker
Glass: Cocktail or Coupe
DIRECTIONS
Chill your glass in the freezer.
To make the raspberry puree blend 1 cup of fresh or frozen raspberries, 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of sugar then strain out the seeds. Add 2 ounces to the cocktail shaker per drink. (The remainder of the puree can be used in other dishes, like over ice cream, cake or even spooned over pork chops.)
Add the remaining cocktail ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until well blended and chilled.
Pour into the chilled glass, top off with the whipped cream, drizzle on some chocolate syrup and garnish with the cubes of sponge cake.
If you like you can replace the cubes of sponge cake with the more traditional lady fingers, as long as you get that cake bite in their you're golden.
