Australia

Vanilla slice

Name: Vanilla slice
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2 sheets puff pastry; 3 cups milk; 2/3 cup custard powder; 1/3 cup cornflour (cornstarch); 1/2 cup for custard 2 cups icing sugar sugar; 3 tbsp butter; 3 yolks egg yolk; 1 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); Passion fruit, pulp of 2, for icing; 1 tbsp water

Thick wobbly custard between crisp puff pastry, with passionfruit icing. Australians call it a snot block.

60 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

The snot block2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThick vanilla custard between puff pastry with passionfruit icing.

The original

401kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

60minutessame

Australian vanilla slice.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Puff pastry2 sheets

Milk3 cups

Custard powder⅔ cup

Cornflour (cornstarch)⅓ cup

Sugar½ cup for custard, 2 cups icing sugar

Butter3 tbsp

Egg yolk3 yolks

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp

Passion fruitpulp of 2, for icing

Water1 tbsp

Method

5 steps

1Bake the pastry sheets at 200°C between two trays for 15 minutes until golden and flat. Cool.
2Fit one sheet in a lined 23 cm square tin.
3Whisk custard powder, cornflour, 1/2 cup sugar, yolks and a little milk to a paste, then the rest of the milk. Cook, whisking, until very thick and bubbling. Add butter and vanilla.
4Pour over the base, top with the second sheet and press gently. Chill 4 hours.
5Mix icing sugar, passionfruit pulp and water, spread on top, set, then slice with a serrated knife.

Serve it like this

Cut into squares with a serrated knife and serve chilled on plates with forks, or in paper like a bakery.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Australia

Vanilla slice

Thick wobbly custard between crisp puff pastry, with passionfruit icing. Australians call it a snot block.

60 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

The snot block2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThick vanilla custard between puff pastry with passionfruit icing.

The original

401kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

60minutessame

Australian vanilla slice.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Puff pastry2 sheets

Milk3 cups

Custard powder⅔ cup

Cornflour (cornstarch)⅓ cup

Sugar½ cup for custard, 2 cups icing sugar

Butter3 tbsp

Egg yolk3 yolks

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp

Passion fruitpulp of 2, for icing

Water1 tbsp

Method

5 steps

1Bake the pastry sheets at 200°C between two trays for 15 minutes until golden and flat. Cool.
2Fit one sheet in a lined 23 cm square tin.
3Whisk custard powder, cornflour, 1/2 cup sugar, yolks and a little milk to a paste, then the rest of the milk. Cook, whisking, until very thick and bubbling. Add butter and vanilla.
4Pour over the base, top with the second sheet and press gently. Chill 4 hours.
5Mix icing sugar, passionfruit pulp and water, spread on top, set, then slice with a serrated knife.

Serve it like this

Cut into squares with a serrated knife and serve chilled on plates with forks, or in paper like a bakery.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Vanilla slice

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Ingredients

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Vanilla slice

Make it your way

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