Delectable vanilla slice with custard and buttercream icing
Food - Drink
Instant Pudding Is The Secret Weapon For Easy Australian Vanilla Slice
By HOPE NGO
Vanilla slice with buttercream
Australian vanilla slice is a delicious dessert of custard between slices of puff pastry. If you've never made it before, try this easy hack that will give it the perfect texture.
Pudding in a white cup on wood
On TikTok, cooks are using instant vanilla pudding as a perfect replacement for pastry cream in a vanilla slice. It's quicker to make and has far more structure and stability.
Close up of vanilla slice
A vanilla slice is meant to hold its shape after it's cut, which can be hard to do with runny pastry cream. Vanilla pudding and store-bought puff pastry make the dessert a snap.
Vanilla pudding layered with puff pastry rectangles
To make a super easy vanilla slice, pre-bake sheets of puff pastry, leave them to cool and crisp up, then sandwich vanilla pudding between the sheets and let it chill.