{"id":8048,"date":"2013-11-03T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2014-09-12T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:58:39","slug":"easy-chocolate-pear-trifle-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/easy-chocolate-pear-trifle-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Rum, Chocolate & Pear Trifle Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>When recipes go wrong…<\/strong><\/p>\n Is it just me or do you find that from time to time things don’t quite go to plan in the kitchen? Ingredients are forgotten, some are mistakenly doubled up, the oven might be at the wrong temperature or the wrong dish used.<\/p>\n I’m not ashamed to admit that as a multitasking mum my cookery goddess halo slips now and again. It happened recently when the 48 buns (I was quadrupling a recipe)\u00a0I’d popped into the oven to share among the family for their Hallowe’en meet ups with friends, failed spectacularly.<\/p>\n I shared the photo on social media (you can view it here)<\/a> – well why not show up our failures as well as our successes? Not surprisingly the comments were mixed. Seemingly there are a few of you out there who neither suffer the kitchen failures I do or are too embarrassed to admit to them… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n I’ve often posted about our attempts to reduce food waste and the thought of throwing away the ingredients of so many failed buns, not to mention the cost, was quite vexing. We were in for a surprise though. As I whipped the trays out of the oven under the assumption they were burnt beyond salvation, Mr G couldn’t resist picking some crumbs off the side.<\/p>\n “These are quite nice, don’t throw them away just yet, try one.”<\/em><\/p>\n I hesitated, my curiosity overcoming the sense of despair, then picked off some cake mixture myself. Mmmmm, they weren’t burnt after all! There was so much chocolate in the recipe it had darkened to almost black. Granted they hadn’t risen and several were still a bit runny looking, but we decided to wait. I didn’t turn the ‘buns’ out onto a cooling rack but left them in their trays overnight.<\/p>\n Surprise, surprise, the following morning, the cake mixture had set into a delicious, fudgey mix and their taste wasn’t compromised at all. The reason for the failure wasn’t the recipe (you can find it below) it was human (me). I’d added way to much water but apart from that everything else was business as usual. What a relief.<\/p>\n Clearly we wouldn’t be giving any of these buns away and there were way too many for us to eat alone, so on Saturday they metamorphosed into a Cheats Chocolate & Pear Trifle<\/strong>. This is a variation of a recipe made by a visiting close friend years ago and as trifle (or any dessert come to that) is such a rare occurrence in our household, I don’t have a problem buying all the ingredients and not making custard or whipping up cream myself…<\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rich Chocolate Cake – bought or made (see below) Method<\/strong><\/p>\n Break the chocolate cake into pieces and line the bottom of a trifle dish or sundae glasses.<\/p>\n Pour the *rum or the pear juice over the cake.<\/p>\n Slice the pears and add a layer on top of the sponge followed by a layer of custard and a layer of whipped cream. Finally, decorate with grated chocolate or sprinkles.<\/p>\n This is what the buns look like when the recipe is followed correctly & decorated with multicoloured sprinkles for a birthday surprise…<\/p>\n<\/a>Cheats Chocolate, Rum & Pear Trifle<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
\nTin of pears in natural juice (save the juice if not using rum)
\nCarton of ready made custard
\nCarton of whipped cream
\n*Rum – a good enough glug to soak the sponge omit for a child friendly trifle<\/strong>
\nSprinkles or grated chocolate to decorate<\/p>\n