Christmas Trifle!
Food and cooking
My principal creative achievement this Christmas was this towering, billowy Gingerbread-Pear Trifle:

It was delicious, if I do say so myself. And really, I'm not taking much credit: the recipe was from the Holiday Baking special issue of Cook's Illustrated and, as they always know what they're doing, I just followed instructions.
Here's a close-up on the pretty, pretty whipped cream top:

And the trifle in place on our rather Christmassy table:

(Yes, everything matches. It's Spode. You can tell because there's a Santa on top of the tree. Knock-offs generally have stars. Accept no substitutes!)
Posted by Kat at December 29, 2010 02:37 PM