Steam Combi Recipe: Vanilla Custard Slice

If you love a custard square you’ll relish the wonderful result when using a steam oven.
You can change the flavouring of the icing to whatever you wish, by replacing the lemon juice with passion fruit or cocoa or raspberries.  This recipe makes 5 pieces, but if you double the recipe you could make this in a 20cm cake tin for more custardy delight!

METHOD

1. Line a 4×8 inch loaf tin with baking paper making sure it comes up all 4 sides completely in one piece without holes.
2. Whisk egg yolks, eggs with sugar and vanilla and then whisk in cornflour.
3. Heat cream and milk in a saucepan until it just starts to bubble around the edges. Do not boil.
4. While whisking, pour hot cream mixture into egg mixture.
5. Strain into lined loaf tin
6. Set oven to Steam 100% 90C and cook for 25 minutes or until custard is set.
7. Refrigerate custard in tin until cold.
8. Preheat oven to Bake 200C
9. Prick pastry all over with a fork and bake between 2 baking sheets to keep from puffing up.
10. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
11. Cool Pastry
12. Remove Custard from loaf tin by carefully lifting baking paper
13. Cut pastry into 2 pieces to fit the custard, and place custard between the 2 pieces of pastry
14. In a bowl mix ingredients for Icing, add water to thin if necessary and ice top of pastry.
15. Cut into 5 pieces with a sharp knife and serve