A very colourful rpudding made with layers of fruits, cake and jelly etc
Occasion: Any | Total servings: 4 | |
Cuisine: Pakistani | Calories: | |
Effort: Average | Pre-Prep time: | |
Best for: All | Preperation time: 30 min | |
How to serve: Cold |
Ingredients:
- 1 round 8" pound cake
- 1 JELLO packet of your choice of flavor
- 1 cup orange juice or your favorite fruit juice/cocktail
- 4 tbsp custard powder
- 8 cups of milk
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup of whipped cream (I use Cool Whip)
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 tsp powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon chopped nuts(almonds, walnuts, etc)
- 2 cups of chopped fresh or tinned fruit (apple, banana,
- papaya, orange, watermelon, strawberry, peaches, etc.)
- 6-8 candied cherries for decorating
Method:
- Take a deep glass dish.
- Put the pound cake in the dish and gently pour the fruit juice over it till the cakeis completely soaked.
- Let it sit for about 30 minutes in the fridge.
- Prepare the JELLO as per the directions on the packet.
- Spoon the jello over the cake before it sets (i.e as soon as you add the cold water to it)
- Leave this in the fridge to set for about one hour.
- The jello will not be completely done yet.
- Meanwhile prepare custard by boiling the milk, adding the custard powder dissolved in a little milk and then adding sugar.Stir continously.
- The custard is ready when the whole mixture thickens.
- Take it off the heat and let it cool to room temperature.
- Divide the custard into 2 equal parts.
- To one part add all the fresh vegetables and mix well.
- Take the glass dish from the fridge and first spoon over the plain custard layer over it.
- Then spread the fruit custard over it.
- Sprinkle the chopped nuts.
- Whip together the powdered sugar, whipped cream and the essence.
- Spoon this over the custard and nuts.
- Decorate with candied cherries.
- Chill for about 45 hours.
- The jello will now be completely set.
- Cut into slices and serve as dessert.
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