Custard vs. Trifle — What's the Difference?

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs.

Trifle is a dessert found in British and other cuisines. Made with fruit, a thin layer of sponge fingers commonly soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, and custard, the contents of a trifle are highly variable; many varieties exist, some forgoing fruit entirely and instead using other ingredients, such as chocolate, coffee or vanilla.

A dessert or sweet sauce made with milk and eggs, or milk and a proprietary powder.

A thing of little value or importance

A dish consisting of milk, eggs, flavoring, and sometimes sugar, boiled or baked until set.

A cold dessert of sponge cake and fruit covered with layers of custard, jelly, and cream

A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.

Treat without seriousness or respect

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

Talk or act frivolously

Sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

Something of little importance or value.

A small amount; a jot.

A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.

A moderately hard variety of pewter.

Trifles Utensils made from this variety of pewter.

To treat flippantly or without seriousness; play or toy

(Archaic) To act or speak with little seriousness or purpose; jest.

To waste (time or money, for example).

An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

Anything that is of little importance or worth.

An insignificant amount of money.

A very small amount (of something).

A particular kind of pewter.

(uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

(intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

(intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

(intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.

(transitive) To squander or waste.

To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.

Jam-spread sponge cake soaked in wine served with custard sauce

A detail that is considered insignificant

Something of small importance

Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

Act frivolously

Consider not very seriously;