Sweet Peach Trifles Recipes

Steps:

• Place peaches in a large bowl, and gently toss with lemon juice. Place 1 cup of peaches in a blender, set aside remaining slices, and blend until smooth. Place yogurt into a bowl; stir in the peach puree and lemon zest until well blended.
• Cut the angel food cake into squares and place half in the bottom of a glass dish. Spoon half of the peach slices over the cake. Cover with half of the yogurt mixture. Place remaining cake squares over the yogurt. Top with peaches, reserving 5 or 6 slices for garnish. Cover with remaining yogurt mixture. Garnish with peach slices. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Steps:

• Halve the vanilla pods lengthways and scrape the seeds, then mix the custard powder, sugar, vanilla seeds and 2 tbsp milk. Boil remaining milk, then whisk into the custard. return the custard to the cleaned pan and bring to the boil, stirring until thick. Strain the custard through a sieve into a bowl, cover and leave to cool. chill to set.
• For the sponge, heat oven to 180c/fan 160c/ gas 4. Butter and line the base of an 18cm sandwich cake tin. Put all the ingredients, except the milk and lemon curd, in a food processor and blitz until smooth. Add enough milk for a soft dropping consistency. Spoon the sponge mix into the tin, level the top and bake for about 25 mins until just firm. cool on a wire rack, then split the cake across the middle into two discs. Spread one disc with the lemon curd and sandwich together.
• Sprinkle the peaches with the caster sugar in a frying pan and cook over a moderate heat. After 1 min, pour the wine over. Continue to simmer for 2-3 mins. remove the fruits, and reduce the liquor to a syrup. can be prepared several hrs ahead.
• Now Finish it in style Cut the sponge into 6 wedges, then slice each wedge into 3. For each serving, place 3 sponge slices in a wide shallow bowl.
• Top with peach slices, drizzle with syrup and finish with vanilla custard and cream, and a sugared vanilla stick (see Gary's tip, right).

Steps:

• Score the bottom of peaches with an "X." Remove the skins of the peaches by dropping them in a pot of simmering water for 30 to 60 seconds. Remove the peaches, set aside to cool in a bowl of ice water and then peel off the loosened skins. Remove the pits from the peaches and then finely chop the flesh. Put the chopped peaches in a bowl.
• Pour the cream into a large mixing bowl. Add a 1/4 cup sugar and the vanilla extract. Whip into soft peaks.
• Cut the corn bread into thin slices. Layer the bottom of a clear glass trifle or other serving bowl with a third of the cornbread. Add a third of the peaches on top of the cornbread and then a third of the whipped cream on top of that. Repeat the layers two more times and crumble the final layer of the cornbread on top.
• Refrigerate and serve cold.

Steps:

• Put the amarettis into a glass bowl and pour over the orange juice. Slice the peaches or nectarines and save a few good slices. Add the rest to the bowl and mix lightly. Drizzle over a little raspberry coulis, followed by the custard.
• Whip the cream until it just holds its shape then spoon over the trifle. Top with the reserved peach slices and drizzle with a little more raspberry coulis. Chill for up to 2 hours, until ready to serve.