Vanilla Slice (Classic)

Name: Vanilla Slice (Classic)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2 sheets puff pastry; 1L whole milk; 6 egg yolks; 3/4 cup caster sugar; 1/2 cup cornflour; 2 tsp vanilla bean paste; 50g butter; 2 cups icing sugar; 2 tbsp passionfruit pulp or lemon juice

A popular Australian bakery slice with thick vanilla custard between crispy pastry sheets. Cooking the custard until it's genuinely thick, well past when it looks ready, lets it hold clean layers when sliced instead of oozing out.

Total time

45 min

Prep

30 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Australian

vegetarian

Ingredients

2 sheetspuff pastry

1Lwhole milk

6egg yolks

3/4 cupcaster sugar

1/2 cupcornflour

2 tspvanilla bean paste

50gbutter

2 cupsicing sugar

2 tbsppassionfruit pulp or lemon juice

Instructions

Bake each pastry sheet at 200°C for 15 minutes. Cool.

Whisk yolks, sugar and cornflour. Heat milk and pour over, whisking.

Return to pan. Cook, stirring, until very thick. Add vanilla and butter.

Pour custard between the two pastry sheets. Refrigerate 4 hours.

Mix icing sugar with passionfruit or lemon juice. Spread over top.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

824

Protein

13g

Fat

29g

Carbs

130.4g

Fiber

0.3g

Sodium

164mg

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