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Custard Slices Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Preheat oven to 200°C.
  • Slice the pastry into two rectangles big enough to line the base of a loaf tin.
  • Bake the pastry until golden brown and puffy. Remove and leave to cool.
  • To make the custard, bring the butter, milk, cream, sugar and vanilla extract to the boil.
  • Mix a little bit of water with the cornflour to make a paste, and whisk into the cream mixture. Whisk over a low heat until the mixture starts to thicken.
  • When thickened, add the six yolks and whisk for a further 6 minutes. and leave the custard to cool.
  • Line the loaf tin with clingwrap and place one of the puff
  • pastry slices on the bottom or if you are using cream crackers line the bottom with one packet of crackers instead of the puff pastry.
  • Pour the cooled custard over and top with the remaining slice of puff pastry or remaining cream crackers.
  • Chill for at least 2 hours, then gently pull out the custard slice and remove the clingwrap.
  • For the topping:
  • Mix together the icing sugar and lemon juice and pour over the custard slice before serving.

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