Mary's easy Christmas trifle with dried fruit compôte and lashings ... Add the apricots, cranberries and pineapple, reserving 2 apricots and 5 cranberries for decoration. Bring to the boil ...

You can never go wrong when you serve a trifle. The flavor combination of strawberries and pineapples is delicious. Placing the pound cake under the broiler adds a nice crunchy texture to the trifle.

Arrange the mango slices over the top, then add the pineapple. Pour over the custard ... lightly using a chef’s blow torch. To make the trifle extra indulgent, you can fry the Christmas pudding ...