Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lamingtons. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Lamingtons is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lamingtons is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lamingtons using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lamingtons:
- Prepare Sponge Ingredients
- Get 2/3 cup (100 g) plain flour
- Get 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 50 g unsalted butter
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Prepare 1/2 cup (110 g) caster sugar
- Get Chocolate Icing Ingredients
- Take 3 cups (480 g) icing sugar
- Get 3/4 cup (75 g) cocoa powder
- Prepare 1/3 cup (80 ml) boiling water
- Take 75 g butter
- Get Decoration Ingredient
- Make ready 200 g shredded coconut, to coat
- Prepare Black currant jam, between sponges
A traditional Australian treat that appeals to most. Any firm type of plain cake can be used: butter cake, pound cake. Lovely lamingtons for the win! 💜. Have you ever had lamingtons before?
Instructions to make Lamingtons:
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- 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
- 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
- Sift ½ of flour mixture over the egg mixture and gently fold through using a large metal spoon. Repeat with the remaining flour
- Add melted butter and fold through
- 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.
- Remove from the tins and cool completely on wire racks
- Once cooled, spread blackcurrant jam on one sponge and place second on top. Then cut the sponges into roughly 6cm squares
- 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
- Using a fork, dip 1 lamington in the icing and roll in the shredded coconut. Place on a wire rack or tray to set
These gorgeous little cakes are absolutely divine. Homemade soft sponge cakes dipped in chocolate and covered in coconut. Lamingtons became very famous when australian vlogger natalie tran other wise known as communitychannel promised over a year ago that she would make a video about Lamingtons. So Australian they have a national day, Lamingtons are part of every kid's upbringing. Here is how to make this homemade lamingtons recipe.
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