while i have some recipes i want to try soon, i wont be able to do them for a few days yet so thought i would start with something me and a friend made a few months back, while not technically baking, it was still fun to make and eat.
About a week earlier me and my friend got talking about the fact we didn’t like trifle. I then mentioned my Nosh 4 Students cookbook has a boozy chocolate trifle, which in my opinion is nothing like a trifle, and my mum agrees on this. We then started talking about what a chocolate trifle should entail and came up with a very sickly sounding version of it. Anyway… As i had the house to myself for a few days it seemed a good time to attempt this so decided to do it this afternoon. After a brief trip to the local shop we had everything we needed for our chocolate, sweetie and alice in wonderland afternoon.I already had the chocolate ice cream in my freezer and it never actually got used, as we were unsure of where it should go.
So next we found a suitable sized bowl, which just happened to be the biggest glass mixing bowl we have and I put the kettle on to boil some water in order to melt the chocolate. Dipping the marshmallows into the chocolate was fun, but rather messy, especially trying to stand them up on the plate proved tricky without getting some chocolate on you. Anyway we managed this and then moved onto crushing the biscuits with a rolling pin and I was given this happy job J though we probably made far too much noise in doing this, but it was damn fun.
After rather violently crushing the biscuits it was time to start assembling our trifle. We put the crushed biscuits in the bowl then added the jelly layer, cause I'm told that all good trifles have to have a jelly layer and ours consisted of haribo starmix, jelly tots and tooti fruiti’s. I then used the melted chocolate to make a drizzled chocolate layer over the jelly sweets and we popped it in the fridge to set for a bit while we watched some of Tim burtons Alice in wonderland.
We then sliced the mini-rolls in half and arranged them around the edge so they were tasty yet decorative, arranged the teacakes in a ring inside the mini roll circle then tipped the mini eggs into the space left inside the mini roll teacake circle which made it extra tasty as well as looking extra pretty and colourful.
As we had quite a few marshmallows left we decided to put some around the edges on top of the mini rolls and then placed them chocolate covered marshmallows in between and placed a Cadburys button on the top of the chocolate (like a little hat).
We then used the smarties to decorate the trifle and fill in the gaps between the teacakes and marshmallows.
Next came the fun part of trying to dish it up. As it had many layers it proved a little tricky. I just managed to get one of the big serving spoons down to the bottom layer and no way was I gonna be able to properly dish it up the way a proper trifle gets dished up so it required a little bit of thinking.
We decided to be a bit smarter about it. I decided to use a couple of ice cream tubs with lids as that way it would be easier to dish it up into because of its size and also the fact that if we couldn’t finish it all in one go we could then put lid on it and save it for later, and he could easily take it home with him if needed. First of all we divided the teacakes between us and each arranged them in the box how we felt was best. We then divided up the marshmallows and then the mini rolls. Due to the melted chocolate that we used it caused quite a few of the sweets to stick together, which did make it a bit easier to get the sweets.
Next came the fun part of trying to dish it up. As it had many layers it proved a little tricky. I just managed to get one of the big serving spoons down to the bottom layer and no way was I gonna be able to properly dish it up the way a proper trifle gets dished up so it required a little bit of thinking.
We decided to be a bit smarter about it. I decided to use a couple of ice cream tubs with lids as that way it would be easier to dish it up into because of its size and also the fact that if we couldn’t finish it all in one go we could then put lid on it and save it for later, and he could easily take it home with him if needed. First of all we divided the teacakes between us and each arranged them in the box how we felt was best. We then divided up the marshmallows and then the mini rolls. Due to the melted chocolate that we used it caused quite a few of the sweets to stick together, which did make it a bit easier to get the sweets. 
We each dug in with a ladle/serving spoon of choice until most of the sweets were divided up and as there were some sweets hidden amongst the biscuit crumbs I used the slotted draining spoon to get the remaining sweets, leaving the crumbs in the bowl. We both felt it worked very well, even though neither of us could finish our tubs because it was majorly filling. Wasn’t as sickly as I was expecting though but I guess that’s a good thing. As it was really good he decided to make me one for my 21st birthday, with a few minor alterations: biscuit layer was replaced with a big Rice Krispie layer and there were a lot of new sweet additions to it (malteasers, white chocolate, tangfastics, etc) and he also put a mound of mousse at the top as well (which is where the ice-cream was originally gonna go.
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