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Easy chocolate trifle

Ingredients

• 100g/3½oz plain dark chocolate (around 70 percent cocoa solids), broken into squares
• 500g/1lb 2oz pot chilled ready-made custard
• 1 good-quality chocolate Swiss roll (around 225g/9oz), cut into roughly 1.5cm/⅝in slices
• 3 tbsp cherry brandy, brandy or kirsch (optional)
• 425g/15oz tin cherries in light syrup
• 300ml/10fl oz double cream

Method

1. Reserve one square of the chocolate for decoration and put the rest in a medium heatproof bowl and either melt in a microwave on HIGH for about 1–1½ minutes, or place over a saucepan of gently simmering water. Once almost melted, remove from the heat and stir until smooth.

2. Add the custard to the melted chocolate and stir well. Transfer to a saucepan and heat very gently, for just 20–30 seconds, stirring constantly until the custard is smooth and glossy. Don’t allow to get too warm.

3. Arrange the sliced Swiss roll around the base and sides of a medium trifle dish. Drizzle with the cherry brandy, brandy or kirsch if using.

4. Drain the cherries, reserving the syrup. (If the cherries contain stones, you may wish to stone the cherries at this point, especially if serving children – you can do this by poking with a skewer, halving the cherries and removing the stones, or using a cherry stoner. Otherwise, leave the stones in place and warn people before they begin to eat.)

5. Drizzle the sponge with 5–6 tbsp of the cherry syrup, until lightly soaked. Reserve 6 of the cherries for decoration and scatter the rest over the sponge. Pour the chocolate custard on top. Cover and chill for 2–3 hours, or overnight, until the custard is softly set.

6. Whip the cream in a bowl using an electric whisk, or by hand, until just thick enough to form soft peaks when the whisk is removed from the bowl. Spoon gently on top of the custard. Finely grate the reserved chocolate on top. Decorate with the remaining cherries and serve.

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By Justine Pattison

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Thought-provoking quotes

    Friends come and go, but enemies remain and build up.

    When our phones fall, we panic. When our friends fall, we laugh.

    If you have crazy friends you have everything you’ll ever need.

    Never let your best friends get lonely. Keep disturbing them.

    You have a problem when your imaginary friend thinks he has a problem.

   There’s nothing better than a good friend, except for a good friend with chocolate.

    Friends come and go, like waves on the ocean, but the true friends stay like an octopus on your face.

    A best friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find, but you’re lucky if you have one.

    Laughing is one of the best exercises. It’s like running inside your mind. You can do it almost anywhere and it’s even better with a friend.

 I’d walk through fire for my best friend. Well, not fire because that’s dangerous, but a super humid room. Well not too humid, because you know, my hair. 

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“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
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