PART 1 mmmEnglish Making Baking at Christmas
hi guys I’m exhausted this week it has
been a long week the week before
Christmas is always so busy there are a
thousand things to do and definitely not
enough time to do them all in so this
week I’ve been shopping for presents and
wrapping presents and writing on cards
I’ve been visiting lots of friends who I
won’t see for a few weeks because
they’re going away to stay with their
families over Christmas and of course I
have been busy in the kitchen cooking
and preparing lots of food ready for the
big day so that’s kind of what I’ve been
doing all week Christmas Day is a really
special day for my family we’re so busy
and we live in different places but
sometimes it’s the only time in a whole
year that I’ll get to see my cousins and
my aunties and my uncles so I’m really
excited about Christmas Day we all have
our specialty dish that we bring to
Christmas so for example my grandma
makes delicious Christmas pudding no one
else is allowed to make the Christmas
pudding she always makes the Christmas
pudding and she serves it with brandy
cream and my uncle always prepares that
and I have an auntie who always roasts
the turkey I have another auntie who
brings calamari and prawns and delicious
things to cook on the barbecue my mum
always makes an ice cream pudding now
remember I’m in Australia so it’s summer
here and the traditional Christmas
pudding that my grandma makes is so hot
it’s perfect for winter Christmases but
in summer we also like to have ice cream
pudding as well and my mum makes a
delicious ice cream pudding and my
specialty is Christmas trifle made with
dark berries and lots of delicious cream
now in this busy week I’ve also managed
to catch up with a few friends who have
been preparing delicious Christmas gifts
for their friends and family so I’ve
managed to film a little bit of what
they were doing as well now if you’ve
been invited to share Christmas with
someone this year
then of course you should prepare
something delicious to take with you and
share on the table with everyone and
I’ve got some delicious recipes that you
can try I’m going to be sharing a few
different recipes with you today but all
of them are perfect to take as gifts on
Christmas Day to share with people you
love and care about now I’m going to
show you how to make that trifle so what
you’re going to need most importantly is
some fruit any type of sweet delicious
fruit is going to be okay but the best
type of fruit to use is berries so I
have some delicious boys and berries
they’re fresh they’re so tasty and
they’re so sweet
I’ve also got some raspberries so I’ll
be using them as well boys and berries
and raspberries so jelly is an important
part of trifle and I’m going to make my
own jelly from the berries you’ll need
750 grams of fresh berries 150 grams of
caster sugar 550 mils of water the seeds
of half of vanilla bean five gelatin
leaves that have been soaked in water or
you could also use gelatin powder we
also need 40 mils of limoncello half a
cup of pink Moscato and one lemon if we
only need one lemon and we’re going to
use the juice and also the rind which is
like the skin of the lemon and in
cooking it’s called zest lemon zest so
I’m going to use this really cool
kitchen tool to help me easily get the
skin off you see it looks like this so
I’m just going to collect all the rind
into the bowl and we can use it in the
cream so scrape the vanilla seeds into a
pot with the berries the water and the
castor sugar
and heat it on the stove simmering for
about 50 minutes until it looks like
this and then strain it into a glass
bowl so if you strain it you collect the
fruit separately like this and the
liquid is in the bottom then take your
gelatin leaves that have been soaking in
water and put them in the liquid and
stir until it’s dissolved
then add the limoncello the lemon juice
and the pink Moscato to the liquid there
is one more important part of a trifle
and that’s the bowl so make sure you’ve
got a glass bowl because at the end
we’re going to have a trifle that’s got
layers and layers of different colors
you can also make individual ones if you
wanted as well so you can use smaller
glass bowls just like this either way is
fine then use a ladle to put the first
layer of jelly into the glass bowl add a
little bit of the fruit that we strained
away from the liquid and cover it and
put it in the fridge to set then for the
cream you’ll need 600 grams of creme
fraiche 75 mils of milk add the rind or
the zest from the lemon and 20 grams of
pure icing sugar that’s been sifted
so put the creme fraiche into a larger
bowl then add the lemon zest the milk
the icing sugar and also add the seeds
of the other half of the vanilla pod
just scrape them out and add them to the
bowl too then combine them all with a
spoon mix it up so take your jelly out
of the fridge after a couple of hours so
it should be set and then add your next
layer of the cream to your trifle
then you’ll need to add your sponge
layer so you can make your own sponge if
you like but I just bought one from the
shop so it’s easy and just cut your
sponge to fit the shape of the bowl just
like this then add 40 mils of limoncello
across the top of the sponge it will
soak in and then add the next layer of
your jelly
cover it again and put it in the fridge
to set after a couple of hours you can
add the last layer of cream
and while you wait lick the bowl and
lastly you can garnish your trifle with
fresh summer berries so here is my
beautiful dark berry trifle it’s
delicious it looks amazing and it’s the
perfect gift to take and share with
friends at Christmas enjoy this now
let’s have a look at what some other
friends have been doing in the kitchen
click here to watch part two of this
video series where my friends make
delicious Christmas treats