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Blood orange and amaretti trifles

Name: Blood orange and amaretti trifles
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: gelatine 4 leaves; smooth blood orange juice 500ml; amaretti biscuits 8, crumbled, plus extra finely crumbled to serve; ready-made vanilla custard 300ml; double cream 200ml; icing sugar 2 tbsp; vanilla extract 1 tsp

15 minutes + chilling
serves 4
Easy

Our individual trifles make a quick and easy dinner party dessert using seasonal blood oranges, ready in just 15 minutes

Published: January 14, 2019 at 11:01 am

Try these blood orange trifles, then check out our chocolate trifle, sherry trifle and strawberry trifle.

Find more seasonal recipes for January here…

Ingredients

gelatine 4 leaves
smooth blood orange juice 500ml
amaretti biscuits 8, crumbled, plus extra finely crumbled to serve
ready-made vanilla custard 300ml
double cream 200ml
icing sugar 2 tbsp
vanilla extract 1 tsp

Method

Step 1

Put the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water and leave for 10 minutes.
Step 2

Heat the orange juice in a pan to just below simmering point then take off the heat.
Step 3

Add the gelatine and stir until dissolved. Cool, then strain into the bottom of four serving glasses. Chill in the fridge for 2 hours (or overnight) until set.
Step 4

Mix the amaretti into the custard and spoon over the jellies. Softly whip the cream with the icing sugar and vanilla, then put a dollop over the custard on each. Finish with more finely crumbled amaretti.