Naked Espresso a few weeks ago, their bill of fare taunted us amongst the beingness nonetheless unavailability of vegan vanilla slice. The chronically sweet-toothed grand was specially disappointed, together with thence when nosotros cooked together a fortnight later on nosotros made certain our ain home-grown vanilla spell was on the menu. There are a few dissimilar version floating or together with thence the meshwork together with I picked the 1 appearing on the International Vegetarian Union spider web page. It uses frozen puff pastry sheets, a filling based on soy milk together with custard powder, together with is topped amongst passionfruit icing. (Yep, it was the passionfruit that had me hooked.)
Frozen puff pastry is acre a time-saver, together with a cheat that I'd happily purpose again. The 1 hitch is that it tends to shrink every bit it bakes, together with thence the frozen rectangle that I cutting to represent neatly inwards my baking tray ended upward undersized. I tin mean value of no obvious solution to this occupation together with was to a greater extent than than happy to spoon upward the pastry-less custard edges every bit they were.
I was a lilliputian wary of the custard, every bit I'm wary of whatever dessert involving this much soy, but the flavour was simply fine. We used a carton of the finest re-released Bonsoy together with the scrapings of a bourbon-soaked vanilla edible bean to exercise a sweet, shine custard that prepare nicely inwards the refrigerator overnight. The 'smooth' fleck was inwards dubiousness every bit I cooked; I don't accept much sense using custard pulverisation together with was alarmed to meet it setting inwards lilliputian chunks inwards the heated saucepan rather than thickening gradually. Fearing jellied gobs inwards the finished product, I pushed it all through a sieve, making quite a mess inwards the process, together with I'm non certain whether it's necessary. (Any custard pulverisation experts out there? Help a sis out.)
The crowning glory of this spell was the passionfruit icing. I tripled the total of passionfruit that the recipe called for together with accept no regrets - these rich creamy squares desperately take away that sour, fruity edge. (This reminded me of the brilliantly unorthodox berry coulis slash across the vanilla slices at Sorrento's Continental Hotel.) Fresh passionfruit is available correct forthwith but I imagine that the canned materials would exercise OK if the vanilla spell angels were whispering to you lot out of season.
This is definitely the form of 'I-can't-believe-it's-vegan!' dessert that I'll locomote making again. While it doesn't resemble the crisp-pastried cream-custard versions that gourmets flock to, it'll vanquish your best memories of suburban bakery snot blocks.
Vegan vanilla slice
(based on a recipe at the International Vegetarian Union website)
ii sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
filling
1 loving cup castor sugar
3/4 loving cup cornflour
1/2 loving cup custard powder
1L soy milk
60g vegan margarine
ii teaspoons vanilla essence
icing
ii cups icing sugar
1 teaspoon vegan margarine
pulp from iii passionfruits
1 teaspoon water
Heat an oven to 200°C. Bake the puff pastry sheets on lightly greased trays for nearly half dozen minutes, until lightly browned. Set them aside to cool.
In a saucepan, stir together the sugar, cornflour together with custard powder. Whisk inwards the milk together with add together the margarine. Set the custard over medium rut to melt the margarine together with convey the mixture to boil. Remove the custard from the rut together with stir inwards the vanilla. At this signal I strained it; if your custard looks lumpy you lot mightiness desire to, too.
Set a layer of pastry into a baking dish, trimming together with reshaping it every bit needed. Pour over the custard together with spread it out together with thence that it's roughly even. Place the 2nd pastry canvas on top, 1 time to a greater extent than trimming together with reshaping every bit needed. Refrigerate the slice.
To brand the icing, stir together all the ingredients until smooth. Retrieve the spell from the refrigerator together with spread over the icing every bit smoothly every bit you lot attention to. Return the spell to the refrigerator for several hours (preferably overnight) until the custard has laid firm. Slice together with serve.
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