Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lamingtons. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lamingtons is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Lamingtons is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lamingtons using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lamingtons:
- Make ready Sponge Ingredients
- Get 2/3 cup (100 g) plain flour
- Take 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 50 g unsalted butter
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare 1/2 cup (110 g) caster sugar
- Take Chocolate Icing Ingredients
- Make ready 3 cups (480 g) icing sugar
- Make ready 3/4 cup (75 g) cocoa powder
- Prepare 1/3 cup (80 ml) boiling water
- Take 75 g butter
- Get Decoration Ingredient
- Get 200 g shredded coconut, to coat
- Get 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. Lovely lamingtons for the win! 💜. Have you ever had lamingtons before?
Steps 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. Lamington Cake is an Australian dessert of little cubes or squares of sponge cake, dipped in chocolate, then The word lamington means layers of beaten gold. In Victoria (State of Australia) they often. Nothing beats fluffy sponge dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut - fact.
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