Croissant custard slice recipe

Ingredients

• Butter

  Unsalted

  100g

• Reduced fat milk

  Fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin a and vitamin d

  1 ½ cup or 366g

• Cream

  Light, Fresh - Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms

  100g

• Egg custard

  Desserts, baked, prepared-from-recipe

  ½ cup or 141g

• Croissants

  Butter

  16 croissant, mini or 448g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  ⅓ cup or 67g

• Vanilla Bean

  Slow Churned Light Ice Cream Flavors - Dreyer's

  100g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  100g

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan forced. Place croissants on a large baking tray. Bake for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool (they will become crisp on cooling).
2. Use a balloon whisk to whisk the custard powder, caster sugar and 60ml (1 4 cup) milk in a saucepan until smooth. Stir in the cream and remaining milk. Place over mediumlow heat and cook for 10 minutes, whisking slowly then more vigorously as the mixture thickens and comes to a simmer. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Whisk in the butter and vanilla until combined.
3. Pour the custard mixture into a heatproof bowl. Set aside to cool until just warm, stirring often with a spatula to release heat and to prevent a skin forming.
4. Meanwhile, grease a 16 x 26cm slice pan and line with baking paper, allowing the paper to overhang above the long sides. Use a small serrated knife to carefully cut the croissants in half horizontally. Arrange enough croissant bottom halves, cut-side up, over base of prepared pan to cover neatly, cutting small pieces from leftover croissant to fill gaps.
5. Drop large spoonfuls of the custard over croissant base and gently spread to make an even layer. Arrange croissant tops, cut-side down, over the custard (you probably won't use them all, don't worry if there are some gaps). Place in the fridge for 2 hours to set. Dust with icing sugar and use a small serrated knife to cut into slices to serve.
6. Recipe by: Tracy Rutherford (source: https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/croissant-custard-slice-recipe/0nsj0dpu?r=recipes/c8fa986e)