Vanilla Slice with Strawberry Icing
2 hours 55 minutes
Flavoured icing makes all the difference to our good Aussie "snotblock".
27 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 9 slices
- 2 sheets puff pastry, thawed
- 2 1/3 cups milk
- 1 1/3 cup thickened cream
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1/3 cup custard powder
- 1/3 cup cornflour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 30g butter
- Icing
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 dessertspoon butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon strawberry essence
- 2 drops pink food colouring
- milk, as needed
Directions
Preparation:25min ›
Cook:30min ›
Extra time:2hours chilling ›
Ready in:2hours55min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Place 1 sheet of puff pastry on flat baking tray, top with baking paper and place a second baking tray on top to prevent pastry from puffing.
- Cook pastry for 15 minutes or until nicely browned, then repeat with second sheet of pastry.
- When pastry has cooled, place one sheet in a square 23cm cake tin, trimming to fit.
- Place milk, cream, caster sugar, custard powder, cornflour and vanilla in a heavy based saucepan. Bring to the boil, stirring until thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Add egg yolks and butter, stirring well.
- Pour custard on pastry sheet in tin, and top with second pastry sheet. Cool in the fridge then ice or dust with icing sugar. Cut into 9 squares. Best eaten within one day.
- Combine icing ingredients, adding only enough milk to make spreadable.
Icing:
Tip
I used a plastic cake container with a lid and lined it with cling wrap, leaving an overhang so I could lift the slice out of the container nice and easy. Once you've taken what you want, put the lid on it and put it back in the fridge.
