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Afternoon tea

Coffee, chocolate and cherry trifle

15 minutes, plus 23 hours’ setting time

Cake recipes

Vanilla sponge with miso butter icing

30 minutes

Afternoon tea

Melting moments

15 minutes, plus 3 minutes for melting chocolate

Afternoon tea

Reindeer chocolate shortbread cookies

20 minutes

Afternoon tea

Mille-feuille with café crème patissiere

30 minutes

Afternoon tea

Chocolate meringues

2–3 hours

Pistachio-and-rose tiramisu

Serves 6–8

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 25 minutes, plus 6 hours’ chilling time

Cooking Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

For the rose syrup:

4 T rose-water
½ lemon, zested
3 T sugar
2 T water
2–3 T rum (optional)

For the trifle:

1 cup whipping cream
500 g mascarpone
50 g icing sugar
50 g ground pistachios
1 t vanilla extract
30 lady finger or Boudoir biscuits
2–3 T rum (optional)
125–150 g raspberries, plus extra to decorate
chopped pistachios, to decorate
Nut brittle, to decorate

Method

1. To make the rose syrup, heat all the ingredients in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Cool slightly.

2 Whip the cream to soft peaks, then fold into the mascarpone with the icing sugar, pistachios and vanilla until smooth.

3. To assemble, gently dip some biscuits into the warm rose syrup and rum, if using, and layer in the base of a 20 cm trifle bowl. Spread over a layer of cream and scatter over some raspberries. Repeat, finishing with cream. Smooth the top.

4. Cover and chill for at least 6 hours or overnight. Decorate with the raspberries, pistachios and brittle.

Find more afternoon tea recipes here

Videographer: Romy Wilson
Photographer: Jan Ras / Shavan Rahim
Food Assistant: Bianca Jones

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