Your exams are done, yes? Never mind how they went — you are finished and that is a good enough reason to celebrate. But you are exhausted! You need some time to recover! There is no way you are going shopping for whatever outlandish ingredients I recommend this time.
Fear not! Trifle is sweet, easy, and perfectly designed for students. You need, in fact, three basic things: creamy stuff, cookie stuff, and fruit.
For creamy stuff, whipped cream or pudding is most commonly used. You can use anything even remotely resembling those two — a bunch of little pudding cups, dessert whip, pudding made from a powder. Just make sure what you use isn’t pure liquid (non-Newtonian fluids are fine). If you choose whipped cream, you should probably still mix it with some kind of pudding, because whipped cream on its own is likely to be too soft to support the layers on top. I don’t recommend sweetening the cream; that will probably be too much.
Fruit you say? What is that, you ask? Fruit grows on trees, is good for you, and I insist that you use it. It is available at many places on or around campus. Any fruit will do, any. You can even use watermelon this time, though it would be less than ideal. It is best if you make the fruits into some kind of syrup or at least mix them with some kind of syrup.
The cookie stuff can be cake, brownies, lady fingers, or even Oreos. They should be fairly dry at the beginning. Sprinkle them with some alcohol (I was not joking when I said trifle was practically designed for students) and leave them for a while to become soft and tasty.
Make the cookie, fruit, and cream into layers in a bowl. The bottom should be cookie, and the top should be cream. You can and should put a sprinkling of candy, peanuts, or chocolate in between the layers to add a little crunch. Then, you should chill our trifle for some time — it is best quite cold. When it is ready, spoon it out and serve! Since it is simple, tasty, and alcoholic, it is perfect for a party — make a very large bowlful. If you don’t have too many people to feed, try to be careful with the amount — it is good the second day, but doesn’t last long after that.
Of course, if you only plan to make one bowlful for yourself as you sit crying over the remnants of your grades, that is perfectly acceptable. It should help you to cheer up.
Do cheer up, though. You did fine!
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