To think you can't eat a custard slice without making a massive mess?

[SaltnPeppaPig]

If you can, share your technique.

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm talking about one of these:

Bingo.

Pastry fork?
I eat more cake tbh with a fork

I never leave the icing until last in case someone else comes along and wants some.

Cut it in half and just go for it, mess and all... but maybe not in public 😂

This.

This Is The Way

They annoy me too much, so I have switched to the Custard Doughnut. Trouble is they come in packs of four.

Lick lots of the custard filling out before gently biting.

Yes! This is correct!!

I thought the one with jam was called a Devon slice? Never heard of a Bavarian slice, I'm open to all delicious slices, though, sounds great.

Thanks you lot, now I'm desperate for a custard or (preferably) bavarian slice...😍

OP, I can't believe you've never thought of turning the custard slice on it's side! Have you been squishing all the custard out all these years?

Shame on you <tut>

Some poor bugger on Mastermind recently had to pronounce the answer "millefeuille" under pressure with no notice on national television. Under the circumstances, he did pretty well

A while back DP was complaining his custard slice was impossible to eat so I told him to try it sideways, and while this did make it much easier, he complained that that took all the fun out of it… but to me, your bog-standard supermarket custard slice is NOTHING on the eating difficulty scale, compared with the glorious double-decker custard cream slice (pastry, custard, pastry, jam, cream, pastry, icing) that my local bakers used to do when I was a kid. You'd have had to dislocate your jaw to take a vertical bite out of that.

Squeeze the top and bottom together and lick the custard that squishes out across all sides. Then separate and eat the bottom pastry layer then the top icing layer.

Still messy, but never mind :)

I voted you are being unreasonable because you posted a photo of a custard slice and I've got 10 minutes of my lunch break left and the best custard slices in Swansea are in the market and it will take me me 30 minutes walk there and back and leisurely eating time. These things can't be rushed.

You put your custard slice on its side and slice thinly so you can shovel a piece at a time into your mouth without making a mess.

@OneTC so happy for you, and more than a little jealous.

I never understood, when they made them om bake off, how they manage to portion them up without squeezing all the custard out. Jigsaw? Laser?

On a plate with cutlery is the way.

This is what I do too.

This hahaha

Absolutely the slicing.
I am feeling morose reading this thread as I can’t eat Custard Slices any more. I am coeliac.
The best ones used to have a thin layer of jam in the bottom slice of puff pastry. Sigh.
I need to try and make a Gluten Free one.

Turn it onto its side and use a knife and fork. You can also put jam on top if you like.

I turn it upside down, use a knife to take the bottom (now top) layer of pastry off which I bin, then eat it with my fingers (with it still upside down). I much prefer this revised pastry-to-icing-to-custard ratio, especially with a cream slice vs a custard slice. And then because I’ve thrown away a billion calories in the form of unadorned pastry, I get to eat the second slice straight afterwards 😉

Correct

SirVixofVixHall
I fully empathise though I am gluten intolerant not coeliac and I could cry at the sight of that custard slice.

My mother used to make them when I was in Sunday School.
I would come home to find them cooling on the windowsill. There would be Victoria Sponge or Coffee and Walnut cake too.

I really miss all these lovely treats.
A new cake shop has opened up nearby and I have asked them if they are doing anything GF.
I do hope so because all my friends will be raving about it.

If I am lucky one cafe does gf millionaire shortbread.

Let me know if you find a good recipe for GF pastry.

You THROW the pastry away?!

What about all the billions of hungry MNers that would gladly eat it?

Glad I'm not the only one who eats the icing layer last! 😛😋