Summer Trifle
Photo: Carolina Ayala / Contributor
It’s been a rough few days for us Houstonians and despite the ominous possibilities of the current hurricane season, we need to find small ways to celebrate life. Summer trifle, which is more of a celebration of fruit, may be the epitome of that. Trifle also has endless possibilities, and it was one of my mother’s favorite go to desserts. Sometimes, there would be delicate blobs of flavored jelly, sometimes just custard and fruit but there were always chunks of cake pieces that floated about with the fruit.
Here, I bring you a trifle with saffron custard, an old cake soaked in cinnamon milk and copious amounts of fruit. Use any cake, a pound cake, sponge cake, or one made from a cake mix. Saffron, a delicious spice that is cooling to our bodies however is not essential to the recipe so switch it for plain old vanilla, cardamom or another flavor. Build a trifle with any and all summer fruit you can get your hands on from peaches to cherries to mangoes, invite your neighbors over, sit on the porch and dig in!