Recipe: Delicious 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 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lamingtons

1. Prepare of Sponge Ingredients.
2. Prepare 2/3 cup (100 g) of plain flour.
3. You need 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder.
4. Prepare 50 g of unsalted butter.
5. You need 4 of eggs.
6. You need 1/2 cup (110 g) of caster sugar.
7. Prepare of Chocolate Icing Ingredients.
8. You need 3 cups (480 g) of icing sugar.
9. It's 3/4 cup (75 g) of cocoa powder.
10. You need 1/3 cup (80 ml) of boiling water.
11. You need 75 g of butter.
12. It's of Decoration Ingredient.
13. It's 200 g of shredded coconut, to coat.
14. You need of Black currant jam, between sponges.

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 oven to 180°C.
2. Place the eggs and sugar in an electric mixer and whisk on high speed for 10–12 minutes or until pale, thick and tripled in volume.
3. In the meanwhile, put the flour and baking powder in a bowl together and then sift three times to make sure they are mixed through and set aside. Also melt the butter.
4. Sift ½ of flour mixture over the egg mixture and gently fold through using a large metal spoon. Repeat with the remaining flour.
5. Add melted butter and fold through.
6. Pour the mixture into two shallow square tins lined with non-stick baking paper and bake for 16–18 minutes or until sponges are springy to the touch and come away from the sides of the tins..
7. Remove from the tins and cool completely on wire racks.
8. Once cooled, spread blackcurrant jam on one sponge and place second on top. Then cut the sponges into roughly 6cm squares.
9. Make the icing by placing icing sugar, cocoa powder, water and (melted( butter in a large bowl and whisk to combine. And place the shredded coconut on a plate.
10. Using a fork, dip 1 lamington in the icing and roll in the shredded coconut. Place on a wire rack or tray to set.

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.