Microwave Custard Slices

Ingredients

• Ready made puff pastry
• 1 cup Sugar
• 125ml Custard Powder
• 1 litre Milk
• 80ml Butter
• 20ml Vanilla Essence

1. Preheat your oven to 200°C
2. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper
3. Unroll your puff pastry and cut into 2 rectangles, any size you want.
4. Place each pastry onto a lined baking tray.
5. Cut the pastry with a pizza cutter for neat line.
6. Cover each pastry square with some more parchment paper and then place a baking tray on top, this stops the pastry puffing up too much whilst baking.
7. Bake the pastry for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Meanwhile make your filling:

1. Mix 1 cup sugar with
2. 125 ml custard powder
3. Slowly blend in 1 liter milk
4. Add 80ml butter
5. Add 20 ml vanilla essence Microwave for 10 min on high.
6. Whisk the mixture every 2 minutes.
7. The custard is perfect when the mixture makes patterns when whisking.
8. Cool down the custard!
9. Pour cool custard mixture over 1 of the baked & cooled pastry sheets as the bottom layer.
10. Add 2nd pastry on top.
11. Let it cool.
12. Mix 1 cup icing sugar with 1 tablespoon boiling water and some lemon juice.
13. Pour over top
14. You can also add flaked almonds