Now I know how to make Cream Slice myself, and I want to share with you it`s recipe. This is the easiest and tastiest recipe of popular dessert. You need a little work, time and ingredients to bake this delicious pastry!
Cream Slice is making from thin slices with a milk and vanilla custard. The recipe has a long and interesting history. There is a version that this recipe was invented in Naples at the end of the XVII century. Therefore in Italy this cake is called Napolitano. In France it named mille-feuilles, what means “the thousand of sheets”.
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Let`s bake this yummy tender cake, and the recipe will become your favorite too!
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Ingredients:
For the slice dough:Instruction
The butter must be cold, so hold it for a some time in the fridge. Then sift the flour into a bowl and grate the butter to the flour.
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Grind with hands the flour with the butter till you`ll get crumbs. Add a pinch of salt and pour the cold water.
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Quickly knead the dough. Mold it to ball, wrap up in the food package and put to the fridge for 30 minutes.
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Form from a dough a “sausage” and divide it into 8 parts.
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Preheat the oven to 200 C (392 F).
Take two sheets of baking paper. Powder one of them with the flour, put the piece of dough and powder with flour again.
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Cover with second sheet of baking paper and flatten the dough between the sheets until you`ll get a thin slice.
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Take a plate or a saucepan lid 18-20 cm in diameter and cut the round slice. Although, you may make a rectangle or square cake.
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Shift the paper with slice to the baking tray and put into the oven. Bake during 5 minutes at 200 C (392 F). Until the first slice is baking, flatten the next.
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Put the ready-made slices on a plate, and the cuttings in the other bowl: it will be used for decorating.
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When all the slices are ready, let`s make custard. A half of milk (0,5l) pour into a thick-walled saucepan and heat up. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla and flour to the second half of the milk and whip with mixer.
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When the milk in the saucepan became hot, but still not boil, pour into it the whipped mix by a thin stream, stirring all the time.
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Brew the custard with stirring until thickening, during 8-10 minutes.
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Cool the custard to the room temperature. Cover slices with cream.
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The top and the sides of the cake also cover with cream. Chop cuttings into crumbs and strew the cake with them.
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Let the cake soak for 2-12 hours, then it will be even more tasty!
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