Cherry Lemon Summer Trifle

Lemon Milk Chocolate Chip Cake

ingredients preparation
  • 170g
    all-purpose flour
  • 5g
    baking powder
  • 1g
    salt
  • 80g
    eggs
  • 130g
    granulated sugar
  • 85g
    butter
  • 40ml
    vegetable oil
  • 10g
    lemon zest
  • 20ml
    lemon juice
  • 65ml
    whole milk
  • 30g
    CHM-DR-0004901

1. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer until light and fluffy.
3. Add in the eggs, one at a time, scraping often.
4. Combine the oil and milk and add to the batter alternating with the dry in two batches.
5. Add the juice, zest and Van Leer milk 10,000 count chips last, and combine. Bake the cake dough at 177℃ (350℉). 

Cinnamon Pastry Cream

ingredients preparation
  • 340ml
    whole milk
  • 30g
    butter
  • 85g
    granulated sugar
  • 1g
    salt
  • 100g
    eggs
  • 10g
    egg yolks
  • 32g
    Cornstarch
  • 1g
    ground cinnamon

1. Make a slurry with the cornstarch and enough of the milk to make it a liquid. Boil the remaining milk with the butter, salt, sugar and vanilla bean.
2. Add the eggs and yolks to the slurry.
3. Once the milk mixture has come to a boil, temper ¼ of the milk into the egg mixture and bring the remaining milk back to a boil.
4. Stream the egg mixture into the boiling milk mixture while stirring constantly. Cook until thickened considerably.
5. Immediately remove from the heat and whisk in the ground cinnamon.
6. Transfer to a mixer and mix until the pastry cream has cooled to room temperature. Refrigerate until needed. 

Cherry Compote

ingredients preparation
  • 45ml
    orange juice
  • 7ml
    lemon juice
  • 3ml
    concentrated vanilla extract
  • 45g
    granulated sugar
  • 25ml
    red wine
  • 170g
    individually quick-frozen cherries
  • 6g
    Cornstarch

1. Bring the orange juice, lemon juice, extract, wine, sugar and 55g of cherries to a boil
2. Simmer gently for about 20 minutes.
3. Make a slurry with the cornstarch and just enough water.
4. Mix the slurry into the simmering cherries.
5. Cook until this starts to boil and has thickened.
6. Take off the heat and stir in the rest of the cherries. Cool completely.

Assemby

1. Cut the cake in evenly sized cubes and set about half at the bottom of a trifle cup
2. Layer the cinnamon pastry cream on top of the cubed up cake, then add a layer of cherry compote over the pastry cream, and the rest of the cubed up cake on top
3. Finish by decorating with buttercream on the desired color in the shape of a sunflower using Van Leer Milk Chocolate 10,000 Count Chips as the stamen.

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