Christmas day dessert - your trifle recipe?

Well, I've learned something from this thread which is that I never knew trifle is supposed to contain Swiss roll.

I make it with plain sponge cake (usually leftovers), mandarin oranges, orange jelly, custard and cream. It's my DS's favourite dessert. I tried a chocolate version with chocolate cake, tin of cherry pie filling, chocolate custard and cream which was delicious, but DS didn't care for it so I will be making the usual orange one for him at Christmas.

I don't think it is supposed to contain Swiss roll, Bellasnana, I just started using it one year when I couldn't find trifle sponges. Make sure it only has jam in the middle, though, absolutely no buttercream!

In Oz you can buy very thick fresh custard in cartons which is good for making trifles - the custard you can buy in the UK in pots or cartons is too runny.

One of our kid's favourite joke when we used to go skiing. One would say 'how to you make a Swiss roll' and the other would reply 'just push her down the hill' and they would gang up on me and push me in the snow

Bella You can use whatever you like really. Trifle sponges, Swiss roll, or Boudoir biscuits, anything but.................sherry is obligatory in my house!

Rosequartz I have always made trifle exactly as you do, Mr Roses demands the same trifle every Christmas with no variations allowed.If he is doing the shopping I have to write raspberry swiss roll WITH NO BUTTERCREAM! on the shopping list. I usually sample the trifle but mainly he eats it all.

Will have to make no egg chocolate cake for the trifle- as we can't have any eggs anywhere near (if we don't want to spend Christmas in A&E with GS (: )

I'd never put jelly in a trifle - too gluggy. Sponge (swiss roll is fine), fruit, sherry or dessert wine, topped with custard and cream, thought I have to avoid the cream because it doesn't like me!

Traditionally, in both my parents families, the trifle comprised, a couple layers of boudoir biscuits topped with a few ratafias, liberally doused with sherry ,followed by vanilla custard, & topped with lots of whipped cream. Then decorated with blanched, slivered almonds. A very grown ups trifle !

Our family trifle always had fruit cocktail in it , with the cherries picked out to go on the top

It has to be raspberries as the preferred fruit because they are nice and sharp and offset the sweetness of the rest of it. We save a couple of boxfuls picked from the garden and frozen. I started adding peaches as well because SIL prefers peaches.