After winning a competition to develop a new dessert, a lemon and Swiss roll amaretti trifle will be the official dessert for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The dish was made by Jemma Melvin and was inspired by the lemon posset served during the Queen and Prince Philip’s wedding.
Sheets of lemon curd swiss roll, custard, jelly, a mandarin coulis, and amaretti biscuits make up the trifle.
It will join the likes of coronation chicken and Victoria sponge as royal-inspired meals.
5,000 people, ranging in age from eight to 108, entered the nationwide competition to create a new pudding to mark the Queen’s 70-year reign, with five finalists competing in a show before a panel of professional judges.
In a special BBC broadcast called The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in Baking, Jemma, a copywriter from Southport, Merseyside, defeated other amateur bakers Kathryn MacLennan, Sam Smith, Shabnam Russo, and Susan Gardner, with the Duchess of Cornwall announcing the winner.
The competition was organised by royal grocer Fortnum & Mason in collaboration with the Big Jubilee Lunch Charity to design a pudding with a memorable story, delicious taste, and befitting of the 96-year-old Queen.
The most significant condition, though, was that the dish could be easily produced by viewers at home and during the thousands of street parties scheduled around the country next month.
Dame Mary Berry, Fortnum and Mason’s executive pastry chef Roger Pizey, former Great British Bake Off winner Rahul Mandal, Masterchef judge Monica Galetti, author and baker Jane Dunn, pastry chef Matt Adlard, and dessert historian Regula Ysewijn were among the judges who tasted the finalists’ puddings.
A passionfruit tart, a Jubilee Bundt cake, a rose falooda cake, and an enigmatically-titled four nations pudding were among the selected dishes.
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The Queen’s favourite tipple, Dubonnet, was used to make the Bundt cake, while the four countries’ pudding was made with Scottish berries, Yorkshire rhubarb, Welsh cakes, and Irish butter and cream.
Layers of lemon curd Swiss roll, St Clement’s jelly, lemon custard, a mandarin coulis (prepared with tinned mandarins), amaretti cookies, and whipped fresh cream made up Jemma’s trifle. More amaretti biscuits and a jeweled chocolate bark are sprinkled on top.
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