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:

Joining the coeliac custard slice mourners club. Though I hadn't had one for at least five years before being diagnosed, cause I'm diabetic too 😖 LIFE IS CRUEL (and food shopping is arduous)

I know Im a complete kill joy but I cannot abide food that you make a mess with

Same goes for those impossible massive burgers and things like an egg mayonnaise crusty roll. Impossible to eat, everything squishes out.

Or a grated cheese and salad sandwich on floppy bread. Barely any filling by the time it reaches your mouth

I take off the bottom bit and eat that first.
Then I eat the top bit with the icing.
Then I eat the custard filling.

I flip it over and peel off the bottom bit of pastry. Eat that first to get rid of it - it's boring and the worst layer of the cake.

Then eat the custard and the iced top bit together.

always used to do the squish, lick custard from the sides then eat tge rest in reduced size bites.... ..now usually do sideqays, although am interested in flipping the top layer ..
however more importantly where do you get them in Swansea market????

Oh wow I was just in Gregg's too and I went with the sugar strand donut over the slice!! Why did I do that 😂The donut was rubbish too, they must have changed it.

I'm sorry, all of you talking about Greggs need to come to Stoke-on-Trent and experience Wrights

Take the top off and eat. Repeat with the bottom. Eat custard with a fork.

Went to Yorkshire last year and there were custard slices everywhere. Good ones too. It was heaven.

Turn the top layer over so you're not holding onto the icing when eating

Madam, you are a genius

@TaffyandTeenyTaffy I hope your dad received a knighthood for this at the very least.

Adore them. Mmmmmmm

1. Cake forks are hopeless.
2. I wouldn’t dare eat one in public!

You do not use cutlery for a custard slice you animals!

I alternate eating the top with a bit of custard and the bottom with a bit of custard. Like by biting diagonally from the middle of the custard to one of the biscuits, you get the best distribution of icing that way. And now I need one.

I put a side plate under my chin to catch all the custardy deliciousness.
Which I then lick clean.
It's like finding that last sweet in the bag when you think they've all gone.... bonus. 😋

Turn it on its side and or eat it with a cake fork

You can't, but they are magnificent. I'd love to know how to eat them and manage to get equal amounts of pastry/icing/custard in each mouthful.

Yabu for making me want one. Yum

This is awful. Can't stop thinking of cake.
We had a holiday in Northern Ireland, which is brilliant for baking, including the delicious
15s (which don't seem to leave the country)

Top tip: when you eat the top layer, turn it upside down so the icing part is on your tongue, not the roof of your mouth.

Put it on its side and use a fork!

Take the top off and put it underneath. Then you have custard on the top and a double layer underneath. All the pleasure and none of the mess.

My God, I think you should be given some sort of award for this genius!

I never thought about turning it sideways. Brilliant! Thank you!

That's exactly how I do it too 😂

mr-pauls-pantry.com/vanilla-custard-slice/

The custard slices from the bakers of my childhood were more flakey and soft like the one in this picture, with more custard in the middle part than the edges.

They were easier to eat than the hard ones you get in supermarkets now, but still squished outwards if you got it wrong.