Thread: how does one eat a vanilla slice?

Originally Posted by dullbird

DONT eat one while diving in the car with the air con on full blast and set to face

I don't drive a rain water leaking Defender so I don't need to dive in my Land Rover.

I'm stuck on the idea of vanilla slice with icing sugar on it? I've only ever seen it with icing/frosting on it...so delicious or the ones with cream but that would be impossible to consume neatly

(to answer your initial question, I take off the top layer with the icing on it and then alternate between the custard and bottom pastry layer and the icing/pastry layer, finishing on custard)

i like caramel chocolate slice alot more.. oh hot dang that **** is good. i have not had any problem eating vanilla slice though put it in the fridge and it is good to go.

the ones they serve up today are crap compared to the ones we use to get up in the country way back the pastry on todays you need a chain saw to get through and that yellow junk in the middle is goodness knows what

lard is my guess

Originally Posted by dullbird

OK So another experience I would like to add to this thread.....

It might help someone out one day.

When eating a vanilla slice (I have now managed to eat it without choking myself on the light dusting of the icing sugar on the first inhale)

DONT eat one while diving in the car with the air con on full blast and set to face


It created a phenomenon

On a 30degree day....it snowed inside my Hilux

May I suggest you obtain a better standard of said Vanilla Slice?

A Vanilla Slice of exceptional quality will have dessicated coconut on top of the icing - not icing sugar.

That will give your Hilux some dignified specks of white of white through its grey.

Originally Posted by Stuuu

May I suggest you obtain a better standard of said Vanilla Slice?

A Vanilla Slice of exceptional quality will have dessicated coconut on top of the icing - not icing sugar.

That will give your Hilux some dignified specks of white of white through its grey.

and what do you tell the officer when he looks in your window and see's white powder all over the cab and you sitting there with a grin from ear to ear

Originally Posted by waynep

On our 3 month trip in Central Oz we did an informal Vanilla Slice Survey ( yeah well gave us an interest )
It's amazing how they differ in each place.
The best ones we found were in Temora. ( the French Bakery)
Ouyen here in Victoria does a good one too. ( the annual Vanilla Slice competition is held there ).

But we prefer the ones with proper egg/vanilla custard, layered pastry and icing sugar.
Fake yellow custard ones with pink icing and flat pastry got voted down .

Eating them can be an issue I admit. Sometimes I resort to deconstructing and eating.

Just read this thread for the first time. It's a classic!!

The best Vanilla Slices we have tried are at the Bakery at Gulgong NSW. Near Mudgee. (Have to try the bakeries you suggested waynep ) The ones at Gulgong are made on the premises and are YUM. Lou, Just munch them down and enjoy them.

Also, Grockle.... Boiled Sweets....My wife LOVES Yorkshire Mixtures (but only the ones from Yorkshire...not the pretend ones from Darling Harbour).

(She's a Yorkshire girl and reckons she knows the difference ).