Chocolate Orange Trifle
quick and easy chocolate orange trifle made from storecupboard ingredients
Servings: 8
Equipment
- large trifle bowl
Ingredients
- 4 - 5 chocolate brownies or approx 150 g chocolate cake offcuts or leftovers
- 2 - 3 tins mandarin oranges in juice
- 1 - 2 tablespoons orange liqueur eg Cointreau
- 1 500 g carton ready made custard I like Ambrosia
- 1 250 g tub mascarpone cheese
- 200 g milk chocolate
- 500 ml whipping cream
- 1 small bar crumbly or flaked chocolate, to decorate
Instructions
- Crumble the chocolate cake or brownies into the base of the trifle bowl.
- Drain the juice from the mandarin oranges, reserving about half the juice from one tin. Add the liqueur to the reserved juice and pour this over the crumbled cake, ensuring all the cake is moist and saturated. You may not need all of the juice, especially if you are using brownies for the base as they are much richer than the cake.
- Spread the mandarin oranges evenly over the base.
- Place the mascarpone and custard into a large mixing bowl and gently whisk together until no lumps remain. Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and melt - microwave on full power for 30 seconds, stir well and repeat as necessary. Gently pour the melted chocolate into the custard mix and mix well until thoroughly combined. Spread this mixture over the oranges and chill until ready to serve.
- Just before serving, whip your cream until thickened - you want it to be a little firmer than soft peak but not too much, it still needs to spread. Spread it evenly over the chocolate custard layer, sprinkle with crumbled chocolate and serve.
Notes
This trifle would work well with raspberries instead of oranges, you could use fresh or frozen raspberries in place of the mandarin oranges and a raspberry liqueur instead of orange. To make a raspberry syrup for the base, puree and sieve a few raspberries then mix with a little sugar to taste and the liqueur. Alternatively, you could use a raspberry jelly, dissolved according to the pack instructions instead of a raspberry syrup.