Trifles are traditionally eaten around Christmas, when scores of families across the country gather around a table to enjoy a wide variety of foods along with the company of family and friends they haven't seen for some time.
Usually, after all the different meats, salads, seafood and curries, the desserts, specifically the various kinds of trifles, keep conversations going as almost every trifle-making "auntie" waits to hear her taste testers' verdicts.
Of course, each family has their way of making their trifle. Some make it at least two nights before Christmas so that all the juices and different flavours soak into the sponge cake that's used as a basis to layer the desert.