Vanilla Slice – Cooking for Oscar

Ingredients

• 2 sheets butter puff pastry (thawed)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cups corn flour (made from wheat)
• 1l milk
• 60g unsalted butter
• 2 egg yolks (lightly beaten)
• 1/2 cup Orgran custard powder
• 1 1/2 cup pure icing sugar (sifted)
• 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
• 1 Small pear half in syrup (drained and pureed)
• Milk