"Trifle" kan lages med forskjellige typer kaker. Du kan for eksempel bruke vanlig sukkerbrød, enkel formkake, marmorkake, sitronkake, rullekake eller annen myk kake med mild smak.

Du kan også strø over noen knuste mandelmakroner, havreflarn eller andre småkaker.

Er du glad i nøtter, kan du strø over det også.

Tradisjonell "Trifle" lages ofte med sherry, portvin eller madeira, men fruktlikør er også godt (for eksempel jordbærlikør, appelsinlikør, aprikoslikør eller sitronlikør).

Har du dårlig tid, går det kjempefint å bruke ferdigkjøpt vaniljesaus.

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SUMMER SUN

"GREAT is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes."

(Robert Louis Stevenson, fra "A Child's Garden of Verses", 1885)