Raspberry and Peach Instant Ice-cream (also known as “Trifle” or “Peach Melba Ice-cream”)

  Incorporating ingredients of raspberry, peach, cream, and custard, this ice-cream can be known as either “Trifle Ice-cream”, or “Peach Melba Ice-cream”. The ice-cream in the photo above has a topping of extra Raspberry Sauce.   This ice-cream is really easy to make – just gather the ingredients together and pop them in the freezer, […]

Raspberry Sauce

    The raspberries to make this sauce were picked just an hour prior. Using fresh raspberries makes this a refreshing and intensely flavoured sauce, but you can also use raspberries that have been frozen then thawed (raspberries that have been frozen might need a bit more icing sugar added for sweetness). I have called […]

Quick Raspberry Trifle

    Preparing a quick raspberry trifle on Christmas Day is a firm family Christmas tradition. This is so we can fulfill another more important task – the tradition of eating the trifle for Boxing Day breakfast! (we do serve the trifle with fresh fruit as well – blueberries, strawberries, and extra raspberries). Another tradition […]

Raspberry Picking 2013

Raspberry pick Number 1 : the day before Christmas (the mad rush)   Mum’s alarm went off at 5.50 am. I didn’t hear a thing. Mum thought I would have and I am woken by her standing at my bedroom door saying “aren’t you coming raspberry picking?” I grabbed whatever clothes I could find in […]

Christmas Trifle 2013 Recipe

  On Christmas Day morning Mum and I prepared “The 2013 Trifle”.   2 packets of raspberry jelly, (made with ¾ cup less water than the directions stated, so it is not so watery) Sponge cake Raspberry jam Packet of vanilla custard Canned peaches Raspberries   For the topping : Whipped cream Chopped walnuts Grated […]