Recipe: Tasty Lamingtons

Lamingtons. A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. Lamingtons are a vanilla sponge dipped in chocolate then coated with coconut. A soft buttery sponge cake coated all over with chocolate icing and coconut.

Is the lamington the most Australian cake? When lamingtons get fancy, they turn into glamingtons. Try adding different flavours to the old favourite for something new. You can have Lamingtons using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lamingtons

1. You need 250 gms of self raising Flour.
2. It's 250 gms of castor sugar.
3. Prepare 250 gms of butter.
4. Prepare 5 of medium eggs.
5. It's 1 tbs of boiling hot water.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
7. It's 1/2 cup of Dark Chocolate.
8. Prepare 1 cup of Cream.
9. Prepare 2 cups of Coconut powder.

A lamington is traditionally made from a vanilla sponge cake, coated in a chocolate sauce and then rolled in dessicated coconut. Over the years, I have played around with several lamington recipes. Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut. A traditional Australian treat that appeals to most.

Lamingtons step by step

1. Preheat your oven at 180° C for 20 min. Now, Beat egg and sugar till frothy.
2. Add egg one by one to the butter sugar mixture.
3. Now add flour, vanilla essence and mix..
4. Finally add hot boiling water. To the mixture, and transfer the vanilla cake batter to the greased baking tray and bake it for approx 15-20 min/ or use a knife to check if it is completely baked by inserting the knife in the cake, if it comes out clean than you are ready to go, if it's sticky and not clean then u need to bake for some more time,.
5. Now boil your cream by continuously stirring it, and remove from the flame. Immediately add grated chocolate to it and leave it for some time and after a minute mix it using a spatula, meanwhile leave you baked vanilla sponge to cool down for 2 hours before demolding,.
6. Take the cooled vanilla sponge and cut it into 1"x 1" squares and dip it into the chocolate ganache and further into powdered coconuts. Make all the cakes similarly and keep it in a refrigerator to cool..
7. Serve these beautiful cakes with evening tea..

Any firm type of plain cake can be used: butter cake, pound cake. Lamingtons, the Australian treat, might look tricky, but they're fun and easy to make. Finish the Lamingtons by tossing them with unsweetened shredded coconut. Lamingtons are delicious chocolate and coconut covered cake treats. They are yummy, and a staple dessert found in the land down under.