Gingerbread Trifle - serves 8

With the smell of christmas cheer in the air my sister in law requested i add this to the blog. Who doesn't love gingerbread and trifle? Carly's friend gem came up with this ooey gooey delicious trifle recipe filled with ginger, cloves and cinnamon, making your house really smell of christmas, what's not to love? Get baking!

Ingredients:

460g Cream cheese
3/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon ginger,
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of ground cloves
2 teaspoons golden syrup
3 Tablespoon milk
600ml whipped cream
400g gingerbread cookies (See recipe below)
1 cup caramel sauce (see below)

Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth.add spices, milk and mix. Stir in 230g whipped cream.
In a trifle bowl crumble 200g cookies (recipe below). Top with 1/2 cream cheese mix, 1/2 the caramel sauce (recipe below), then 1/2 (of the remainder) whipped cream, repeat and refrigerate for 4 hours. 

Caramel sauce  
1c brown sugar
1/4c milk
1/4c cream
4T butter
Pinch of salt
1T vanilla
Mix together everything except vanilla in a pot and heat over medium-low heat for 5-7 mins until thickens. Add vanilla, thicken over heat for another minute, cool.

Gingerbread Recipe
350g Butter
1 cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Golden Syrup
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
3/4 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cloves
2 teaspoons Ground Ginger
5 Cups Plain Flour

Beat together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs until combined, add golden syrup and all dry ingredients, mix until mixture is well combined. Refrigerate for 2hrs. Rolls out dough and cut out shapes (in this case gingerbread men) and bake for 8-12mins.