Mary's easy Christmas trifle with dried fruit compôte and lashings of sherry can be made up to 2 days ahead and decorated with whipped cream just before serving. First, make the fruit compôte.

Even Angela heads for the custard powder to make her easy sherry trifle recipe. Throw in frozen raspberries and ready-made sponge fingers and you have an instant classic. Layer the sponges evenly ...

Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas is airing ... One 400g tin of pears ・Maraschino cherries ・6-8 trifle sponges ・75ml dry sherry ・160ml reserved pear syrup from tin ・85g strawberry ...

For those special times, such as to go with the Christmas Pudding ot trifle replace half of the ... caster sugar. 1 Pour the sherry over the frozen raspberries and leave to thaw.

Alongside this is a Festive Trifle with layers of custard, cream, sponge and pear, topped with spun sugar. Mary Berry's Ultimate Christmas is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...