Caramel Custard Slice
Recipe: #31011
November 29, 2018
Categories: Desserts, Snacks, Baby Shower, Game/Sports Day, Potluck, Sugar, Milk, Butter/Margarine, more
"From our weekday newspaper The West Australian. Times are estimated."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (162.4 g)
- Calories 269.4
- Total Fat - 8 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.4 g
- Cholesterol - 18.6 mg
- Sodium - 191.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 44.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.5 g
- Sugars - 27.6 g
- Protein - 6.1 g
- Calcium - 190.7 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Grease an 18cm (base measurement) square cake tin with cooking oil spray and line base and sides with baking paper, extending paper 1cm above tin.
Step 2
Line base of prepared tin with 9 biscuits, in a single layer, shiny side down.
Step 3
Put butter, brown sugar and syrup in a medium saucepan and bring to the boil and continue to boil vigorously, stirring constantly for 4 minutes and then remove from heat and whisk in condensed milk and return to the stove over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, for 8 minutes or until very thick and slightly deeper caramel in colour and then remove from heat.
Step 4
Put custard powder and 250ml of the milk in a large heatproof bowl and whisk until combined, then pour in hot condensed milk mixture, whisking until smooth.
Step 5
Return mixture to saucepan over medium heat and pour in remaining milk and cook, stirring constantly with a whisk, for 5 minutes or until very thick, then continue to cook, stirring vigorously for a further 30 seconds and then spoon on top of biscuits in tin.
Step 6
Top with a second layer of 9 biscuits, shiny side up and refrigerate for 2 hours or until set firmly.
Step 7
To make icing, put icing sugar, cocoa and water in a bowl and stir until smooth.
Step 8
Spoon icing over slice and refrigerate for a further 1 hour or overnight, if convenient, until icing sets.
Step 9
Using biscuits as a guide, slice into 9 squares to serve.
Tips
No special items needed.