Recipes

Yuzu Vanilla Slice

Yuzu Juice

INGREDIENTS:

  • 3 sheets frozen butter puff pastry, thawed (see note)

Yuzu Vanilla Custard

  • 150g (2/3 cup) caster sugar
  • 100g (2/3 cup) cornflour
  • 810ml (3¼ cups) milk
  • 80ml (1/3 cup) yuzu juice
  • Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 40g butter, softened

Yuzu Icing

  • 240g icing sugar mixture, sifted
  • 2 tbsp melted butter
  • 2 tbsp yuzu juice, strained, at room temperature

METHOD:

  1. Preheat oven to 200˚C. Place puff on oven trays lined with baking paper, top with another sheet of baking paper followed by another tray on top. Prick all over with a fork, and bake, in batches if necessary, until golden (15-20 minutes). Cool on a wire rack. Using a serrated knife, trim edges so pastry fits into a 23cm-square cake tin.
  2. For vanilla custard, combine sugar and cornflour in a saucepan over medium heat, add milk a little at a time, whisking until smooth. Add juice and vanilla seeds. Bring just to the boil, whisking until smooth and thick (6-8 minutes). Remove from heat, whisk in yolks, and butter and set aside.
  3. Line a 23cm-square cake tin with baking paper, place a piece of pastry in base and pour over a third of the custard, level with a palette knife and top with another piece of pastry. Repeat with remaining custard and pastry. Stand for 2 hours or until set.
  4. For icing, combine ingredients in a bowl and mix. Spread over slice and serve.

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