Amongst boozy trifles, Sherry Trifle is the most traditional, but it's far from the only option.

This recipe makes a particularly boozy vodka and raspberry trifle.

Use of good vodka is strongly recommended: I tend to use Stolichnaya. However, if you want an extra raspberry kick and can lay hands on some, Smirnoff Raspberry Crush works very well.

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This recipe takes my Double chocolate raspberry brownie recipe up a level.

It consists of two raspberry brownie layers sandwiched around a dark cherry buttercream layer.

As with the original recipe, rather than white chocolate chunks you can also use a knife to turn a Milkybar bar into flakes.

Because the presentation is that of a cake, you don't necessarily need to use square tins for this, the only requirement is that both tins be the same size shape (if you've only got one tin, you can make one layer at a time, but it'll take longer).

Can be served on it's own, or with cream

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These came about because we decided to make brownies, but I couldn't be arsed to deal with melting chocolate so wanted to make them with Cocoa only. Was a little bit worried that it'd result in a loss of volume though, so wanted to add something to bulk it back out.

My cake pan is actually too large for this recipe, and my mixing bowl too small to make more in one go. So, rather than buying and storing yet more kit, the approach we tend to take is to make one set of the mix, measure out new ingredients and then make another set. This means you can do layered stuff like (in the pic) having a darker layer with just raspberries in it beneath a lighter layer with raspberry and white chocolate

The volume loss of not having the chocolate isn't actually that great though (the coca increase offsets it quite well), so you can just as easily leave out the raspberries and white chocolate if you prefer straight brownies.

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I'm not entirely sure where I got this recipe, but Sainsbury's do a nice Presse

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