Vanilla slice
Thanks to community contributor, Anne Taylor, you can reminisce with a childhood favourite as she shares here her classic recipe for vanilla slice.
Ingredients:
- 2 sheets of ready rolled puff pastry
- 1 cup of caster sugar
- 1 cup corn flour
- ½ cup custard powder
- 3 cups of milk
- 1 cup of cream
- 60g butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence (I use extract)
- 3 egg yolks plus 1 whole egg
For icing
- 1½ cups of icing sugar
- ¼ cup of passion fruit
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 15g butter extra, softened
Method:
1. Preheat oven to hot 240ºC (200º gas). Brush two oven trays with oil. Line the base and sides of a shallow 23-cm square cake tin with aluminium foil, extending over two sides. Place pastry sheets on prepared oven trays. Prick all over with a fork. Bake eight minutes or until golden.
2. Remove from the oven and trim each pastry sheet to 23-cm square. Place one sheet in prepared tin, topside down.
3. Combine sugar, corn flour and custard powder in a medium pan. Gradually add milk and cream; stir until smooth. Stir mixture constantly over medium heat two minutes or until mixture boils and thickens. Add the butter and essence; stir until smooth.
4. Remove from heat. Whisk in egg yolks until combined. Spread custard over pastry in tin, cover with remaining pastry, topside down and set aside to cool.
5. To make icing, combine icing sugar, passion fruit pulp, juice and butter in heatproof bowl. Stand bowl over pan of simmering water and stir until icing is smooth and glossy; remove from heat. Lift slice out of cake tin. Spread icing over top of slice and allow to set.
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