Kremsnita (Cream Slice with Whipped Custard and Custard Cream) 🍰

Name: Kremsnita (Cream Slice with Whipped Custard and Custard Cream)
Prep time: 48 min
Cook time: 72 min
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Slovenian
Ingredients: 500 g all-butter puff pastry, rolled into two 25 × 35 cm rectangles; Pastry cream: 500 ml milk, 1 vanilla pod, 6 yolks, 100 g sugar, 40 g cornstarch; Whipped layer: 400 ml cold heavy cream + 2 tbsp icing sugar, whipped soft (not stiff); To finish: icing sugar for dusting; optional flake of white chocolate; Spare: butter for the trays; a cool room or fridge for setting; Equipment: rolling pin, parchment, a heavy baking sheet to weigh the pastry down

Every café vitrine in Ljubljana holds the same geometry: two sheets of crisp puff pastry sandwiching a cloud that is neither custard nor cream but both, dusted with icing sugar and sliced with a spatula at the moment of order. This is kremsnita, Slovenia's national dessert. The classic recipe calls for both pastry cream and softly whipped cream, folded so the filling wobbles but never runs; Bled's version owns the trademark, but the capital's bakeries argue the texture theirs is airier. Either way it is a three-palette dessert — butter, vanilla, sugar — executed to the gram.

Upper Carniola Slovenian ⏱ 120 min Intermédiaire

Méthode

1

Dock the pastry rectangles with a fork, lay on parchment-lined trays, weigh down with a second tray and bake 20–25 min at 200 °C until puffed and deep gold; cool flat under a board so they stay level.
2

Make the pastry cream: infuse milk with vanilla, whisk yolks-sugar-starch, return to the pan and whisk to a thick custard; film-contact chill until fully cold.
3

Whip the cream soft and fold it into the cold custard in three movements, trying to keep the volume: the fill should pour like thick yogurt and settle like mousse.
4

Spread one pastry sheet with the whole filling (about 2 cm high), cap with the second sheet, and press very lightly. Chill at least 3 hours — overnight is the confident cook's answer.
5

Dust with icing sugar only at the table; cut with a sawing knife into squares. The first slice is always slightly crooked; that slice belongs to the cook.

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