I made the platinum jubilee pudding … and what a faff it was

It's fit for a queen and it looks magnificent, but the anointed trifle takes hours to perfect

Jemma Melvin, the winner of the competition to find a pudding to mark the Queen's platinum jubilee, has called her lemon swiss roll and amaretti trifle a humble" dish. But as I stand in my kitchen in the early morning light, wearily contemplating her recipe, it seems anything but modest.

For starters, there's its size. Serves 20," I read. Should I swap my glass bowl for a bucket? It's also ridiculously complicated, requiring the cook to make not only jelly and custard but also swiss rolls, lemon curd, amaretti biscuits, a chunky" mandarin coulis and jewelled white chocolate bark".