Graveyard Trifle with Meringue Ghost Cookies. Spread the cookie crumbs over the top layer of pudding. Immediately before serving, place a couple of meringue ghosts on top of the trifle and stick a few bones so they are showing through the "dirt." Serve each helping with a ghost and a couple of bones. Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls will enjoy the fanciful graveyard scene on this tasty trifle recipe. The step-by-step instructions on how to make this graveyard trifle recipe are easy to follow. If you are looking for an easy Halloween dessert recipe your whole family will enjoy, this trifle is for you!
I have made these meringue ghosts two years in a row and they always come out perfect!
This has become my go-to meringue recipe.
I might suggest adding a few drops of vanilla extract for flavor but that's optional.
You can cook Graveyard Trifle with Meringue Ghost Cookies using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Graveyard Trifle with Meringue Ghost Cookies
- You need of For the Brownies:.
- You need 200 g of butter.
- Prepare 300 g of golden caster sugar.
- Prepare 2 of tbsps. golden syrup.
- It's 200 g of dark chocolate.
- Prepare 50 g of milk chocolate.
- You need 4 of eggs.
- Prepare 2 of tsps vanilla extract.
- It's 200 g of self-raising flour.
- You need 4 of tbsps. cocoa powder.
- Prepare of For the Chocolate Custard.
- Prepare 600 ml of milk.
- It's 100 g of caster sugar.
- Prepare 4 of egg yolks.
- It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 8 tsp of corn flour.
- You need 4 of tsps cocoa powder.
- Prepare 100 g of dark chocolate.
- Prepare of For the meringue:.
- Prepare 4 of egg whites.
- It's 230 g of caster sugar.
- It's of To Assemble:.
- It's 3 of x tins of cherries in syrup.
- It's 50 ml of kirsch (optional).
- You need 600 g of bourbon biscuits.
This trifle is full of chocolate goodness with sweet meringue ghosts and white chocolate bones. Bake the meringue ghosts until they are dry which will take approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. If the weather is humid, it may take an extra fifteen minutes or so. When they are done, transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack so the ghosts can cool completely.
Graveyard Trifle with Meringue Ghost Cookies step by step
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For the Brownies:
Heat the oven to 180 C/160 C fan. Grease and line a roasting tin. Place the butter, sugar, syrup and chocolate in a saucepan and heat gently until melted and lump-free, then remove from the heat..
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Break the eggs into a jug and add the vanilla, mix lightly, set aside. IN a large bowl add the flour and cocoa powder with a pinch of salt, add the chocolate mix and stir, then fold through the egg mix..
- Once combined pour in the prepared tin, then cook for 30 mins. Once cooked allow to cool completely, then cut into squares..
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For the chocolate custard:
Heat the milk in a pan until almost boiling, in the meantime, add the yolks, vanilla, sugar, cornflour and cocoa powder to a bowl and mix to a thick paste. When the milk is hot add to the bowl slowly, whisking the entire time, then transfer the mixture back into the pan and heat over a low heat whisking continuously until thickened, remove from the heat and stir through the chocolate until it is melted, leave to cool completely..
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For the meringues:
Whip the egg whites until frothy, then add the sugar 1 tsp at a time, until stiff peaks are formed. Transfer into a piping bag and pipe the meringue into bone and ghost shapes, if you don’t have a piping bag you can use a zip lock bag with the corner cut..
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Cook on your ovens lowest temperate for 60 mins, then switch the oven off and open the door slightly and allow the meringues to cool completely in the oven, these can be made the day before. Once cool use an edible black pen, black food colouring or a little melted chocolate to create the ghost's faces..
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To assemble:
The night before, or least a few hours before assembly, open the tins of cherries and drain, reserving the syrup, cut the cherries in half and remove the stones, put the cherries into a bowl, and add the kirsch and some of the syrup, cover and leave overnight. (leave out the kirsch if not using). You can aslo use cherry pie filling and just stir through the kirsch..
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Blitz the bourbon biscuits in a food processor, or bash with a rolling pin inside a zip lock bag..
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Layer half your brownies in the bottom of the trifle dish. Spoon over some of the cherry/kirsch liquid, then top with half the cherries, then spoon over the chocolate custard and then half the bourbons. Add the meringue bones against the side of the trifle dish with bourbon biscuits behind to look as thought they are buried in soil. Then repeat once more, with a layer of bourbon biscuits on top..
- Decorate with ghosts and bones sticking up through the soil..
Easy Halloween Meringue Ghosts will keep in a tightly covered container on. This trifle is full of chocolate goodness with sweet meringue ghosts and white chocolate bones. This trifle is full of chocolate goodness with sweet meringue ghosts and white chocolate bones.. Put the egg whites in a clean dry bowl and with an electric whisk, whisk to stiff peaks. In a food processor, whizz the cookies to a fine crumb.