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Australian vanilla slice

An Australian pastry dessert with crisp puff pastry, thick vanilla custard and passionfruit icing.

This version layers crisp puff pastry with firm vanilla custard and passionfruit icing. Chill the slice thoroughly before cutting so the layers hold together.

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Total time292 min
Difficultysite.advanced
servings12
Australian vanilla slice
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Method

  1. 01

    Bake the pastry

    Heat the oven to 180 °C. Place each pastry sheet on a baking-paper-lined tray, cover with more baking paper and set another tray on top. Bake for 20 minutes, or until crisp and golden. Leave to cool on a rack.

    20 min
  2. 02

    Make the vanilla custard

    Put the milk, cream, 60 g butter, vanilla paste and caster sugar in a saucepan. Heat over medium, stirring until the sugar dissolves; remove from the heat just before the mixture boils. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the cornflour. Gradually whisk in the hot mixture, then return everything to the saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until it boils and thickens; keep it boiling for 2 minutes while stirring.

    2 min
  3. 03

    Assemble and chill

    Line a 22 cm square tin with two long strips of baking paper, leaving an overhang at the edges. Trim the pastry sheets to fit. Place one in the base, pour in the warm custard and smooth it; top with the other sheet and press gently. Refrigerate for 4 hours, or until the custard is firm.

    240 min
  4. 04

    Ice and cut

    Mix the icing sugar with the 20 g melted butter. Stir in the passionfruit pulp until the icing is smooth. Spread it over the chilled slice while it is still in the tin, then refrigerate for 30 minutes or until set. Lift the slice out using the paper and cut into portions.

    30 min

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