This Pie Maker Vanilla Slice turns traditional vanilla slice into the perfect picnic treat. Pies are so much easier to handle and transport than the slice version, and the taste is just like the much-loved bakery treat you might remember.
Ingredient notes
You'll need three sheets of frozen puff pastry along with these ingredients for the filling:
- Aeroplane vanilla dessert mix
- thickened cream
- milk.
To ice the pies, you'll need soft icing mixture, boiling water and a little pink food colouring.
Equipment
These recipe instructions are for the Kmart pie maker or equivalent. If you don't have one, get one!
Seriously, this is one of the best purchases I've made for the kitchen in a long time.
If you want to whip up something savoury in the pie maker, try my Chicken and Leek Pie recipe.
How to make Vanilla Slice Pies
Cooking pies in the pie maker is so easy and quick.
Simply thaw the frozen puff pastry and cut out the bases and tops with the cutter that was supplied with your pie maker. Here, we're making six pies.
Place the bases in the pie maker, fill with custard mixture, add the pastry tops and then cook for just five minutes.
Once cooked, allow the pies to cool before icing, dusting and enjoying!
These are wonderful served as soon as possible after icing. However, you can store them in the fridge for a day or two .
More sweet picnic fare
Some more ideas to sweeten up your picnic:
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Pie Maker Vanilla Slice
Equipment
- Kmart pie maker (or similar)
Ingredients
- 3 sheets frozen puff pastry
- 1 packet aeroplane vanilla dessert mix
- 300 ml thickened cream
- ⅓ cup full cream milk
- 1 ½ cups soft icing mixture
- 1 ½ tablespoons boiling water
- 2-3 drops pink food colouring
- extra soft icing mixture (for dusting pies)
Instructions
- Preheat pie maker.
- Prepare custard filling by combining dessert mix, milk and cream. Whisk until mixture thickens.
- Cut out six bases and six tops from de-frosted puff pastry sheets.
- Place pastry bases in pie maker and then fill with custard mixture. Add pastry tops and then close pie maker and cook for 5 minutes.
- Combine icing sugar, boiling water and pink food colouring. Whisk to combine.
- Pour icing over cooled pies and then dust with icing sugar.
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