The word “trifle” comes from the old French term “trufle,” and literally means something whimsical.  An English trifle is made with real egg custard poured over sponge cake soaked in fruit and sherry and topped with whipped cream. Th trifle dessert was also a way of using up leftover or stale cake. I have whipped up version of a trifle that does not have any fruit or jelly, and which simply very easy to make. Ingredients: Serves 4 - 5  A loaf of Trifle Sponge cake; Good quality coffee; 500 ml of custard; A packet of original Oreo cookies…

  One of the earliest printed recipes for chocolate cake came from the cookbook The Hostess of T-o-Day by Linda Larned (1899) and although it is a cake made with cocoa, it is different from modern chocolate cakes Early chocolate cakes were much lighter because they used significantly smaller amounts of sugar and cocoa. They also used more flour than what we are accustomed to making them fluffier and more like what we would today call a breakfast bread "Chocolate cake" was a white or yellow cake to be eaten while drinking a chocolate beverage. It wasn't until 1940 that…