Vanilla Ice Slice

Ice ice baby...yeah I could really do with some Ice after returning from a session of super sprints, I'm on fire this evening, not the good kind of 'on fire' either. I may add I went straight from work with no facewipes so kept it strictly G with the red lipstick still in tact, can't say the same for my eyebrows they ended up on my knees by the end of the run. Anyhow I whipped these up this morning for a friend , a hip hop spin on the vanilla custard slice I present the ''Vanilla Ice Slice'', all right stop collaborate and listen...

Vanilla Ice Slice

You will need: 

For the puff pastry:

8oz Plain Flour

1/2 tsp salt

7oz Butter

5 fl oz water

For the vanilla custard filling:

                                                              8oz custard powder

8oz sugar

32 fl oz milk

2 tsp vanilla  

For the Icing:

                                                                       5 tsp water

7oz icing sugar 

Dark chocolate melted or if you're a playa with no cash monies like me just use a bit of Nutella

Method:

Right Pastry is for playas and it is probably a lot easier to just buy some sheets of puff pastry however if you want to whip some up it isn't actually that hard, just longs out the baking session so depending on your full time hustling schedule you can bake or buy. If you are to make your own then you'll need a large bowl and begin with mixing the flour and salt together, rub in about half of the butter into breadcrumbs and then the remaining leaving lumps. You then bind the pastry together using the water and its quite easy to see when it has reached playa status, it may not even need all the water stated. 

Now you need to roll the pastry out on a (this is key) floured surface else you're gonna end up in stick to the side central. Once rolled out to around 2.5cm thick you then third the pastry and fold the bottom up to the middle and the top to the middle kind of like you're making a paper aeroplanes. Place the pastry to chill in the fridge for ten minutes. Now this gets a little monotonous but you need to roll it out and third the pastry again and then place it back to chill for another ten minutes, in total do this 3 times to achieve the perfect playa pastry.Slice into two piece and bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown and then leave to chill.  

Now for the custard filling place the custard powder and sugar into a saucepan and whisk well, add the milk and heat the mixture on a medium heat until it is stiff and hard to stir. Once you are happy with the consistency of the mixture add the vanilla in, to be honest I just free poured but thats cos I was rushing 

around tryna get the bake down before I started work.

Spoon the mixture onto one of the slices of cooled pastry and sandwich together with the other slice, now for the icing you'll need to sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add the water and dash of vanilla essence, then smooth this over the top and add the decorative melted dark chocolate or as mentioned if you're a wannabe baller like me just use Nutella, every playa should have this in the cupboard.

Leave to chill in the fridge and voilaa you got that ice ice baby down yo. Now of course you know what tune it is and check out them badboy hip hop hoe hairstyles at 22seconds into the video...DAYM GURL.