If you are a fellow Aussie you know all about lamingtons and how awesome they can be - but if you live else where you may not have experienced these little wonderful cakes. Just imagine mini sponge or butter cakes dipped in chocolate and coated in coconut - seriously one of the best flavour combinations of all time.
Lamingtons (from the Australian Women's Weekly - 100 Favourite Cakes)
Makes 24
Cake:
4 oz unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup castor sugar
2 eggs
2 cups self-raising flour
pinch salt
1/2 cup milk
Chocolate Icing and Coconut Topping:
1 lb icing sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 oz unsalted butter
1/2 cup milk
3/4 lb shredded coconut
Cake:
- Grease and line a lamington tin (11 in x 7 in). Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F).
- Beat butter and vanilla together until white, add sugar, beat until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Fold in sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk. When all the ingredients are added, beat mixture lightly until smooth.
- Spoon mixture into lamington tin, bake in oven for 30 minutes. Cake is done when firm to the touch and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool slightly before turning the cake out on to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Sift icing sugar and cocoa into heatproof basin, or into top half of double saucepan.
- Add softened butter and milk, stir with a wooden spoon to mix thoroughly.
- Stand over hot water, stir constantly until icing is of good coating consistency.
- Keep icing over hot water while dipping lamingtons. If icing becomes too thick, add a little extra warmed milk or water.
- Thinly trim brown top, base and sides from cake.
- Cut cake into 24 even pieces.
- Hold each piece of cake on a fork. Dip each cake in chocolate icing, then toss in coconut.
- Stand on wire rack until icing sets.
The butter cake batter ready to bake.
The baked cake.
Individual pieces of cake.
Delicious lamington!
Why not give it a try? I promise you will love this one!
12 comments:
These look so tasty, this is an australian recipe isn't it?
I agree...I <3 Lamingtons, looking forward to having a couple on Wednesday!
Oh these look so good. The coconut you have used is awesome; nice and thick. I've never made them from scratch myself, but I guess for Australia Day I really should!
I love lamingtons but they have to be the kind that do not have jam and/or cream in them. Yours look delicious!
That looks so awesome! I wish I lived in Australia right now.
I love lamingtons although i dont usually like coconut all that much. I usually do them with jam and cream in the middle mmmmm can taste them now :)
Rose
YUM!
I couldn't make them from scratch for years because our oven couldn't cook a decent cake base for lamingtons.
Might have to try now that I have a convection microwave :) yay!
Looks absolutely delicious. I love Lamingtons and would love to chow down on a huge chunk of that!
yum, those look delish!
I used to love lamingtons as a kid then when I was in grade 5 we discovered I was allergic to chocolate and coconut amoungst a million other things and I haven't eaten one since.
Oh My.....these look so delicious! I need to try them.
Yummmmm!
~Sena
Reading all the Australian and British food mags (better than ours in the US in my opinion) as I have been lately, I've been curious to try many of the treats common there but unfamiliar to us. Like steamed puddings and lamingtons! These look just perfect, Alicia.
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