Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Vanilla Slice

Nothing like baking with alcoholic ingredients.  I tried a go at vanilla slices today. The recipe says these are eggnog vanilla slices. I think that flavour mainly comes from the Kraken Black Rum bottle we bought. YoHoHo.  I spent an hour or so buying ingredients and another hour on the baking for my 12 slices.  How many kinds of sugar are there? I used icing, caster and demerara sugar. There were three issues I had. The butter was not unsalted. I had trouble separating yoke from white and thirdly the main custard ingredients all went into the pot together when I was supposed to fold in at certain times.  Despite this, 12 tasty slices emerged from the fridge.  The pastry is crispy but the volume of custard seems to be a bit light on however they do the job.  Last tip use a serrated knife to cut into slices.

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