Our One And Only Christmas Tradition.

Over the years it has come to me that we here at Chez Kalamain, only actually have one tradition, and even that one is only a food thing.

So what is that Tradition? The Christmas dessert!

It may not seem like much but it's one of those weird things that takes hours to put together and minutes to eat!
Its a cross between a trifle and a sundae while not actually being either. 

To make it is incredibly easy. You just need some basic ingredients and some time. Time being the big thing here!

You can also pick your favourite flavours with this, normally we go for Strawberry, but if you prefer chocolate you just have to buy those flavours. 
I would avoid a mish-mash of flavours though... Lime jelly with strawberry toppings? Yeah, that doesn't work... We know (Oh boy was that a bad year!)

Ingredients

1 pkt of Jelly (I use crystals for ease)
1 pkt of Angel Delight (Or any light whipped dessert)

Optional
Chocolate buttons (either colour)
Mini Marshmallows 
Ice cream
Custard (cold only!)
Sprinkles
Whipped cream

Method

On Christmas eve make up the Jelly base. If you want to, you can add in pieces of  fresh fruit. There are some fruits that stop jelly from forming. To use them they must be from canned versions. 
You want this to be good and set before you do anything else.

Jelly with marshmallows  and chocolate buttons

Christmas morning

Place some chocolate buttons, marshmallows or anything you want to hide on top of the jelly. BTW, fresh fruit pieces work well too. It won't affect the jelly at this point.
Strawberries and Raspberries work well here, too.

OPTIONAL PIECE - If you want to add in a layer of custard it generally goes well here, on top of the optional bits we talked about above and jelly. 
You will need to put the dessert back into the fridge for a bit to cool and solidify a little. 

The dessert with the Angel Delight on top

Make up the Angel Delight and gently spoon it on top. If you do it right the dessert should be slightly runny and will set in the fridge till later.

Once the angel delight has stiffened up (after only 20 mins) then you can add more decoration if desired.

For the top you can use whipped cream, ice cream or anything like that, and then chill for a while before finally removing to serve. 
Obviously, at this point the final sprinkles and whatnot can be added.

Enjoy!