Kremes (Hungarian Cream Slice)

Happy Sunday!

It is so beautiful outside, sunny and warm, feels like Spring! Well, it has been like this for the past 2 weeks now, 1 day Winter, next day Spring, back to Winter, then Spring again, repeat. What is going on? 😁 No, not complaining, but seriously, am wondering what happened to Winter this year 😁 The other month was -51 C, however, lately Spring, Winter, Spring, Winter, on repeat indeed. BEAUTIFUL outside!!!

The bad news? Well, my youngest has been battling fever since Thursday night 😬 Poor guy can’t catch a break. He fell on his kneecap on Wednesday due to icy surface, caught the flu on Thursday, been throwing up, shivering, coughing, his joints also hurting, yada yada yada. It’s the darn whiplash temperature, I tell ya! Beautiful, but brings out the sicknes 🤪

Anyhoo!

This Hungarian dessert is not overly sweet, can be served with sprinkled icing sugar on top or not. Easy to prepare, and you can use only 1 puff pastry sheet or both, and you can even double the cream ingredients easily!

Pastry

1 or 2 puff pastry sheets
Sugar for sprinkling

Cream (Custard)

6 eggs
1 heaping tsp vanilla essence (Mexican is the best or pure vanilla extract)
200 ml milk
60 g AP flour

Serving

Icing sugar

Thaw both puff pastry, roll flat, place on parchment lined baking pans

Poke with forks, sprinkle with sugar

Bake on preheated 400 F for 20 mins (convection oven)

Take out and slice with pizza cutter for 1 of the puff pastry layer (for top layer)

Separate the eggs, beat the whites until stiff peak form

Pour a little milk into the yolks, add in vanilla, mix

Stir in flour

Into a pot, pour the rest of the milk and add in sugar

Bring to boil in medium heat until sugar dissolved

Stir in yolk mixture, cook until thickened

Take off from heat, stir in meringue, mix til completely combined

Pour cream onto puff pastry that isn’t sliced, spread and let stand for 10 minutes

Top with puff pastry squares

Chill over night, slice, and serve sprinkled with icing sugar

Yummo 😍