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The mille-feuille (French pronunciation: [mil fœj], thousand-sheets), vanilla slice or custard slice, similar to but slightly different from the Napoleon, is a pastry whose exact origin is unknown. Welcome to Bake with Gen & thank you for clicking on this video and taking the time to watch! Mille-Feuille a French phrase, directly translates to thousand leaf/sheet. As the name suggests, the decadent pastry has many layers of puff sheets that are made up of hundreds of layers themselves.
Mille feuille or custard slice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mille feuille or custard slice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mille feuille or custard slice using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mille feuille or custard slice:
- Prepare 250 g puff pastry
- Get 45 ml castor sugar
- Make ready Pastry cream
- Take 30 g Flour, cake
- Prepare 180 g sugar, castor
- Get 500 ml milk
- Prepare 6 egg yolks
- Take 5 ml vanilla essence
- Get 30 g butter
- Make ready Topping
- Prepare 125 ml icing sugar
- Prepare 10-15 ml lemon juice
- Take 30 g chocolate
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Steps to make Mille feuille or custard slice:
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Divide cold puff pastry into 3 pieces. Roll into 3 rectangles as thin as possible. Does not have to be neat rectangles as is it will be cut.
- Take a baking sheet and turn it upside down. Sprinkle castor sugar on sheet. Place puff pastry on sugar. Sprinkle castor sugar on pastry and place another baking sheet on top with bottom touching pastry. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden
- As soon as it comes out of oven immediately cut edges of making three pastry layers the exact same size.
- Pastry cream: sift cake flour and castor sugar together. Whisk 1/4 of the milk into the egg yolks, then add the flour and castor sugar and whisk until completely smooth
- Heat remaining milk in a pot. As soon as the milk comes to a boil, whisk approximately one-third of it into the egg-and-flour mixture and blend completely. Pour the egg mixture into the pot.
- Stir constantly until the custard thickens. As it thickens, the custard will go through a lumpy stage. Although you should not be alarmed, you should increase the speed of you stirring. Continue to stir vigorously, and it will smooth out and thicken just before coming to a boil. Add vanilla essence
- Allow pastry cream to boil approximately 1 minute, stirring constantly
- Remove the pastry cream from the heat and immediately pour it into a clean mixing bowl.
- Fold in the butter until melted. Do not overmix, as thus will thin the custard. Cover by placing plastic wrap in the surface of the custard. Chill in a an ice bath.
- Topping: Mix icing sugar and lemon juice together until it forms a thick paste. Melt chocolate and add a tablespoon of icing sugar to melted chocolate.
- Assembly: place puff pastry sheet on plate. Pipe pastry cream and again another layer of puff pastry. Top with pastry cream and add last puff pastry sheet. Decorate with icing sugar and chocolate.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
Hard to beat the fabulous mille feuille recipes on this board and the custard slices are just as nice. See more ideas about pastry, recipes, desserts. Mille-feuille (pronounced meel-foy) is a type of French pastry that is otherwise known as vanilla or custard slice. It is made from layers of thin puff pastry that is alternated with a cream filling and topped with a ganache. The flavours of mille-feuille are relatively simple, but it is the textural elements that.
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