Trifle vs. Pudding — What's the Difference?

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.

Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savory (salty or spicy) dish that is part of the main meal.In the United States and Canada, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet, milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant custards or a mousse, often commercially set using cornstarch, gelatin or similar collagen agent such as Jell-O. The modern American usage to denote a specific kind of dessert has evolved over time from the originally almost exclusive use of the term to describe savory dishes, specifically those created using a process similar to that used for sausages, in which meat and other ingredients in mostly liquid form are encased and then steamed or boiled to set the contents. Black (blood) pudding and haggis survive from this tradition.In the United Kingdom and some of the Commonwealth countries, the word pudding is still used to describe both sweet and savory dishes.

A thing of little value or importance

A sweet, soft dessert, often with a base of milk or cream thickened by flour, cornstarch, or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked

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

An edible mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency

Treat without seriousness or respect

A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal; dessert.

Talk or act frivolously

A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.

Something of little importance or value.

Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter.

A small amount; a jot.

A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

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 type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

A moderately hard variety of pewter.

Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

Trifles Utensils made from this variety of pewter.

(originally) A sausage made primarily from blood.

To treat flippantly or without seriousness; play or toy

(slang) An overweight person.

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

(slang) Entrails.

To waste (time or money, for example).

(obsolete) Any food or victuals.

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

A piece of good fortune.

Anything that is of little importance or worth.

A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

An insignificant amount of money.

Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.

A very small amount (of something).

An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.

A particular kind of pewter.

Any food or victuals.

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

Same as Puddening.

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

Any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes;

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

(British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)

(intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.

Any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

(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;