Banana Custard Slice

Ingredients

• 4 bananas
• 1 liter milk
• 6 eggs
• 100 g caster sugar
• 2-3 drops vanilla essence
• 3 tablespoons arrowroot (you could use cornflour or cornstarch)
• 2 sheets puff pastry (ours measure 23cm square)
• icing sugar (to decorate)

Directions

1. 1

   Into a large saucepan put milk, sugar, eggs and bananas and then blend with a stick blender (if you don't have a stick blender then use a blender or food processor and then transfer to saucepan) heat over a very gentle heat stirring frequently until the custard thickens (should coat back of wooden spoon with a thick mix and when stirring leave a trail), add arrowroot to help thicken even more.

2. 2

   Spread the custard out on a tray (with sides) to let cool completely.

3. 3

   Preheat oven to 180°C.

4. 4

   Cut pastry sheets in half and place pastry sheets on baking paper lined trays.

5. 5

   Prick pastry sheets all over with a fork.

6. 6

   Place in oven and bake for 10 minutes.

7. 7

   Give cooled custard a stir to (don't worry about it having formed a skin), put down a layer of pastry and top with 1/3 of the custard but don't take it right to the edge, put on another 1/3 layer of custard and then another pastry sheet and then the final layer of custard and the final 4th sheet of pastry.

8. 8

   Sprinkle with icing sugar and then refrigerate for 1 hour.

9. 9

   Remove and slice into desired portions (3 to 4).