Vanilla Slice
By
Suzanne rose
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This has to be my all time favourite slice.
Recipe by Australia's best
- Easy
- 0:20 Prep
- 0:10 Cook
- 16 Servings
Recipe by Australia's best
Ingredients
- 2 sheets ready rolled puff pastry
- 1 egg beaten
FILLING
- 3 cups milk
- 1/2 cup custard powder
- 1 cup cream
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1 tbs vanilla essence
- 1 tbs gelatine powder
- 1/4 cup hot water
ICING
- 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
- 3 tbs passionfruit pulp fresh
Method
- Preheat oven to 230 C / 210 C fan-forced. Place pastry sheets onto a baking tray and brush with egg and bake for 10 minutes.
- Cool and set aside.
- Mix milk slowly into the custard powder.
- Add cream and sugar, and stir over a medium heat until thick.
- Stir in the vanilla.
- Dissolve gelatine in hot water and then add to custard mix. Mix well.
- Trim one pastry sheet to fit the base of a 16 x 26 x 3cm tin.
Line the tin and then place pastry into the base. - Pour the custard mix over the pastry.
- Trim the other sheet of pastry and place on top of custard mix.
Cover with Glad Wrap and refrigerate until firm. - Turn the slice onto a board.
Mix the icing sugar and passionfruit pulp to make a stiff icing.
Spread over the slice and cut into squares.