Transfer to a bowl with any juice from the chopping board and drizzle with orange liqueur. To assemble the trifle, cut the sponge into long strips and arrange it in the base of a large glass ...

Equipment and preparation: You'll need a large trifle dish or glass bowl. Put the trifle dish on a large tray to make it easy to carry. Slice one of the Madeira cakes into 0.5cm/¼in slices and ...

If you use trifle sponges, sandwich them in pairs ... slices and use these to line the bottom of a 3 pint (1.7 litre) glass bowl, sprinkling generously with sherry as you go along.