Vanilla Slice (Easy Version)
Recipe: #15433
November 01, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Passion Fruit, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Milk, more
"From our local paper. I have made the passionfruit icing an option as we would prefer to dust with icing sugar. Our pre-rolled pastry sheets measure 24cm x 24cm (9 1/2" x 9 1/2")."
Ingredients
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- PASSIONFRUIT ICING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (322.3 g)
- Calories 788.3
- Total Fat - 45.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 16 g
- Cholesterol - 1019 mg
- Sodium - 279.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 71.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.9 g
- Sugars - 44.1 g
- Protein - 22.7 g
- Calcium - 286.3 mg
- Iron - 3.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 5.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 200C (180C fan forced).
Step 2
Place pastry rectangles on line baking tray and bake till golden (5 to 7 minutes - check after 4 minutes).
Step 3
Combine sugar and cornflour in a saucepan, add milk a little at a time and whisk in so you don't form lumps.
Step 4
Bring to the boil, remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla, yolks and butter.
Step 5
Cool with cling wrap pressed onto the surface so a skin doesn't form.
Step 6
When mixture is cold, stir in cream.
Step 7
Split matchsticks in half lenghtways and spoon custard on to the flat side and top with the rounded top second piece.
Step 8
For passionfruit icing, mix the seeds and juice of the passionfruits well with the icing.
Step 9
Spoon over passionfruit icing or just dust with icing sugar.
Step 10
Serve immediately, if not doing so, make up and assemble just before serving, otherwise pastry will go soft, keep pastry in air tight container.
Tips
No special items needed.