Custard Squares
Makes 16 squares
Ingredients
- 2 sheets of flaky puff pastry
- 600ml of milk
- 4 tablespoons of custard powder
- 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
- Splash of vanilla essence
- ICING
- 2 cups of icing sugar
- 15g butter
- Splash of water
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa, or 1 teaspoon of lemon juice or vanilla essence
Method
- Place the pastry sheets on greased oven trays. Prick all over with a fork.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
- Place 2 cups (500ml) of milk in a sauce pan and heat.
- Put custard powder and icing sugar in a small bowl and dissolve in the 100 ml left over milk. Pour this into the warm milk and stir until it gently boils.
- Continue to stir and gently cook for 5 mins.
- Leave until cold and place on top of one sheet of cooked pastry. Top with the other sheet of pastry.
- Ice with your favourite flavour icing.
