Lamingtons
photo by AmandaInOz
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
15
ingredients
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Sponge
- 125 g butter
- 157.80 ml sugar
- 473.18 ml self raising flour
- 2 eggs
- 2.46 ml salt
- 78.78 ml milk (approx)
- 2.46 ml vanilla
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Icing
- 118.29 ml icing sugar
- 7.39-29.58 ml cocoa
- boiling water
- vanilla
- coconut
directions
- Grease lamington tin.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
- Sift flour and salt, add alternately with milk to mixture.
- Add vanilla.
- Blend well, but do not over beat.
- Add a little more milk if necessary to form a softy dropping consistency.
- Spread evenly into prepared tray, bake in a moderate oven 180 degrees for 25 to 35 minutes or until cooked.
- Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
- To make icing sift icing sugar in a bowl.
- Blend cocoa with a little boiling water and work into icing sugar adding more water if necessary then add vanilla.
- When cake is cold cut into square of uniform size.
- Dip each cake in icing then roll in coconut.
- Set aside to become firm.
- Repeat for remaining squares.
Reviews
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I can only rate the sponge cake recipe as I did not use the icing recipe. At first tasting of the plain cake, my husband and I both thought the cake might be a little too vanilla flavored for lamingtons and my husband thought it was a little dry. However after coated in chocolate and coconut and allowed to sit for a day or so they were irresistable! The cake, if dry, was sufficiently moistened by the chocolate icing and held its shape and texture perfectly. I would use this cake recipe again.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
JanelleC
Brisbane, Queensland
I live in Brisbane, Australia. I'm an Administration Officer for the State Government. I'm only 21 years old and I absolutely love cooking. I learnt from my mother when at a very younge age. I've held over 15 dinner parties. The biggest one I've held was for 16 people, and catered for my own 21st. I know quite a lot about low fat cooking and loosing weight. I lost a total of close to 35kgs. Starting out on my diet I discovered I had galstones which helped me on my weight loss. Now I have gained a lot of information and knowledge about weigh loss and low fat cooking. I'm actually just starting to get into Muay Thai Kick Boxing although I'm just a fan and love going to watch. Also just have to mention my lovely dog Snoopy!