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Christmas pudding and sherry trifle
Fruit and vegetables
8 fresh black
figs
, cut into quarters
Cooking ingredients
icing sugar
, to taste
150g/5½oz mixed crumbled pecans and toasted
flaked almonds
pinch ground
cinnamon
1
vanilla pod
, split in half lengthways
2 tsp
cornflour
50g/1¾oz
brown sugar
Biscuits, snacks and sweets
100g/3½oz
chocolate
shavings, to decorate
Drinks
250ml/9fl oz Pedro Ximénez
sherry
Dairy, eggs and chilled
250g/9oz
mascarpone
250ml/9fl oz
double cream
500ml/18fl oz full-fat
milk
100ml/3½fl oz
double cream
6
egg yolks
Other
300g/10½oz leftover
Christmas pudding
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