Recipe - Vanilla Slice

250 g Philadelphia cheese
250 g Unsalted butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Envelope gelatine
1 cup Very hot water
1 Dessert spoon vanilla
essence
2 pack Lattice bisquits (see note)

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 96 19:09:35 EST

submitted by: reidar@thehub.com.au
Note: Lattice Bisquits have a lattice shaped pattern on one side; they are
only slightly sweet: from the 'glazed' pattern side, I think. They come in
packets of twenty. I believe you will be able to substitute other, similar,
bisquits if the Lattice ones are not available at your end.)

Cream together the butter and Philadelphia cheese, add the gelatine which
has been dissolved in the hot water. Add the sugar and the vanilla essence.
I have then used my 'liquidizer' to get this mix real well 'creamed' and
smooth.

Cover a flat oventray with Alfoil. Take the bisquits from one of the
packets and place with the 'patterned' side down.

Then pour the mix over the bisquits, and spread it. It will be very 'runny'
but try to cover the bisquits without the mix running beyond them. The mix
will firm up considerably when cooling; also, it will 'cure' so that the
sugar grains, which is easily disernible in the fresh mix, seem to
disappear.

Then place the bisquits from the other packet on top of the mix, with the
'patterned' side up. Make certain that the top bisquit positions correspond
fairly accurately with the bottom ones; if not, the slices will be a mess
when you cut them.

Put the tray in the frige. When cooled, cut into individual slices.

I would never have contemplated making any kind of cake with this sort of
ingredients. I judged the calories to be too many. And I misjudged the
taste to be too rich and nauseating. It was not; the stuff was angelfood.

The reason I made these slices was simple: I was given the recipe AFTER I
had been offered the slices. By then I had eaten one. And was hooked.
Reidar Frydenlund, Brisbane Australia

DAVE DAVIDG@CLAM.RUTGERS.EDU

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