Gail Sauer’s Bakery Cafe offers a French Vanilla Slice (as well as a standard Vanilla Slice). They also offer a Strawberry version that I road tested today. The custard is creamy, not strongly vanilla; the pastry is very light and flaky, not crumbly; the icing is more butter cream than fondant – very pink; the …
Not the best (oh, Muffin Break, why did you stop using passion fruit icing?), but very acceptable.
Catching up with friends in Melbourne, then flying north tonight.
A Donna Hay vanilla slice recipe was floating around Facebook on the weekend, so I gave it a go. I didn’t give the puff pastry enough space when I blind baked it, used a vanilla bean and extra egg yolk in the custard (thanks Byron) and the result was very satisfactory. I might want the …
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