Vanilla Slice

Name: Vanilla Slice
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2 sheets puff pastry; 4 cups milk; 1/2 cup cornflour; 1 cup icing sugar, for topping

Vanilla Slice/vuh-NIL-uh slyce/

About this dish

Layers of crisp puff pastry sandwiching thick vanilla custard, topped with icing.

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Ingredients

🥐2 sheets puff pastry

🥛4 cups milk

🌽1/2 cup cornflour

🍬1 cup icing sugar, for topping

Method

Serves 4

Bake the puff pastry sheets flat until crisp and golden.

Whisk cornflour, sugar, and egg yolks, then temper with hot milk.

Cook the custard over low heat until very thick.

Spread the custard between two pastry sheets and chill until set.

Top with icing and slice into squares.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Vanilla slice is a beloved Australian bakery item, affectionately nicknamed 'snot block' for its glossy, wobbly custard layer.

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