

Berry trifle with cranberry jelly
Ingredients
- Sponge base
- 25g castor sugar
- 1 egg
- 25g self-raising flour
- sprinkling of ground cinnamon
- Cranberry jelly
- 2 cups light cranberry juice
- 1 tablespoon gelatin
- 250g strawberries, sliced
- ½ cup blueberries
- Custard
- 5 teaspoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons custard powder
- 1 ¾ cups skim milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 200g reduced-fat crème fraiche or reduced-fat sour cream
- Assembly
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sugar strawberry jamjellyX
- 6 tablespoons orange juice
- 250g low-fat Greek-style yoghurt (we used Anchor)
- 50g raspberries, fresh or frozen
- 150g strawberries, sliced
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds, toasted
- fresh mint sprigs
- sprinkling of ground cinnamon
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Instructions
1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease the base of a small round cake tin. Place sugar and egg in a bowl and using an electric whisk, mix until thick, pale and creamy. Sift flour and cinnamon over the mix and gently fold in. Spoon into tin and bake for 20 minutes or until golden and firm.
2 Meanwhile, heat cranberry juice in a pan until hot. Remove from the heat and whisk in gelatin until dissolved. Set to one side to cool.
3 Once the sponge is cooked, turn out and cool. Make up the custard by mixing the sugar and custard powder together with a little milk to make a paste. Heat the remaining milk and vanilla paste until almost boiling. Pour over the custard paste, stir and then return to the pan. Cook over a medium heat, stirring until thickened. Remove from the heat and cool.
4 To assemble the trifle, cut the sponge in half and spread one half with the jam. Top with remaining sponge and cut into small squares. Place in the base of the bowl. Sprinkle over the orange juice.
5 Add the strawberries and blueberries to the sponge. Once the jelly is almost set, spoon over the fruit. Chill to set.
6 Mix the cooled custard with the crème fraiche. Spoon the custard over the set jelly. Chill.
7 An hour before serving, top with Greek yoghurt, berries, almonds, fresh mint sprigs and a sprinkling of cinnamon. Keep chilled until serving.
Variations
Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free flour and check custard powder, Greek-style yoghurt and cinnamon are gluten free.
Jelly
- You can use no-added-sugar jelly sachets instead of the cranberry juice and gelatin.
- Add a tropical hint by using light cranberry and mango juice.
- You could make jelly using reduced-sugar lime cordial or ginger beer cordial – use about 2 tablespoons of cordial with 1 3/4 cups of boiling water and 1 tablespoon gelatin.
Fruit
- Vary the fruit topping for your trifle using kiwifruit, pineapple and mango for a tropical twist.
HFG tip
How our trifle compares to a traditional trifle
TRADITIONAL | HFG MAKEOVER | SAVE |
1560kJ (373cal) | 720kJ (171cal) | 54% less |
7g sat fat | 3g sat fat | 57% less |
34g sugars | 16g sugars | 53% less |
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 170cal
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Kilojoules 710kJ
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Protein 7g
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Total fat 7g
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–Saturated fat 3g
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Carbohydrates 20g
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–Sugars 16g
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Dietary fibre 2g
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Sodium 80mg
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Calcium 130mg
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Iron 0.5mg
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