South Africans celebrate Easter in different ways and some are following American traditions in serving smoked ham while others prefer a family braai (BBQ).  But for dessert a trifle will be served in many South African homes as this is seen as a festive family time dessert.

Here is a traditional South African festive trifle recipe.

Servings: 6-8 portions

Ingredients

1 pt green jelly
1 pt red jelly
1 tin pears or peaches
1 swissroll (bought or home made) Jam or Chocolate
sherry or rum to taste
2 cups thick custard
1 cup pecan nuts – crushed
125ml cream
glazed red cherries – chopped (to garnish)

Instructions

Dissolve jelly according to package, separately. Leave overnight to set. Drain pears or peaches – keep syrup. Cut in pieces. Cut swissroll and line a round glass dish with 1/2 of cake. Sprinkle over some fruit syrup as well as some sherry or rum. Cut jelly in small blocks and spoon over some green jelly. Spoon over a layer of custard and some fruit and nuts. Spoon over some of the red jelly. Repeat layers with cake, green jelly, custard, fruit, nuts and red jelly till all finished. Beat cream till thick and garnish trifle with cream and red cherries.

Suggested wine

The iconic and uniquely South African wine , Kumkani will complete your traditional South African Easter meal.I suggest the Kumkani Merlot / Pinotage or the infamous Kumkani Infiniti MCC sparkling wine.

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