There are few desserts in our collection that combine sophistication, easy preparation and deliciousness like this one. You can prepare it with the rum if you plan to serve it to adults, skip it if there will be children at your table. For this you will need Dominican 'tostadas', very similar to ladyfingers but not covered in sugar. If you find it impossible to find tostadas just user ladyfingers.

Time: 30 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serve: 4 people

Before starting to cook: No prior preparation is necessary.

Ingredients:

• 20 lady fingers
• 1/2 cup of rum (optional)
• 1 cup of condensed milk
• 2 cups of evaporated milk
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of corn starch
• 1 cup of fresh (or canned) fruit, diced
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 egg whites (pasteurized egg best)
• 1/2 cup of powdered sugar

Preparation:

1. Mix condensed and evaporated milk. Add yolks, corn starch and vanilla. Mix well. Sieve to eliminate undisolved parts. Boil in bain marie stirring constantly until it starts to thicken. Remove from the fire and keep stirring until it cools down to room temperature.
   
2. Pour the rum into a dish. Briefly dip the ladyfingers into the rum. Arrange half the lady fingers in a deep-bottomed serving pan.Cover with half the milk cream. Arrange the other half of the ladyfingers followed by the reamaining cream. Chill.
   
3. Before serving prepare a meringue by beating the egg whites until it starts rising. Add sugar and continue beating until it forms peaks. Cover the ladyfingers with the meringue and top with the fruit.

Well, not quite a trifle but the same idea.

A classic English trifle has the base made of ladies' fingers (or langues de chat as they are also called) or chunks of cake soaked in sherry or rum, a layer of jelly (jello, gelatina), some canned peaches or similar, and a layer of custard (natilla) and topped with whipped cream.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

I need to alter the servings for this recipe so that it will be enough for about 25 people.
Get back to me soon!
thank you!

Neetha, please ask your question in the help forum. It is easy to miss questions posted amongst other comments in a recipe.

I am craving this right now... Off to the shop to find the ingredients.