Lamington Style Cake
Lamington Style Cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lamington style cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut. A traditional Australian treat that appeals to most. Any firm type of plain cake can be used: butter cake, pound cake, Madeira cake or genoise sponge.

Lamington Style Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Lamington Style Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lamington style cake using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lamington Style Cake:
  1. Make ready <Basic Butter Cake>
  2. Get 125 g Butter *cut into small pieces, softened at room temperature
  3. Make ready 1/2 Caster Sugar
  4. Take 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  5. Prepare 2 large Eggs *room temperature
  6. Get 1/2 cup Buttermilk OR Milk *room temperature
  7. Take 1 & 1/2 cups Self-Raising Flour
  8. Get <Icing & Coating>
  9. Take 1 cup Icing Sugar
  10. Take 2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder
  11. Make ready 20 g Butter *melted
  12. Get 2 tablespoons Boiling Water
  13. Take Desiccated Coconut for coating

Of course, I knew I would probably like the Australian lamington cake (or I would not have bothered to make the lamingtons in the first place), but I was really. Lord Lamington was known for wearing a homburg hat that looked like the cakes. For many years lamingtons were served on state ceremonial occasions in Queensland. Lamingtons are a quintessential part of every Australian's childhood.

Instructions to make Lamington Style Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 170Ā°C. Line the base and sides of a square cake tin with baking paper. *Note: To help the cake to rise evenly, you can butter the baking paper on the sides.
  2. Beat the softened Butter in a mixing bowl with a whisk until smooth. Add Sugar and Vanilla Extract, and beat until creamy. Add Eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. Add Buttermilk and Self-Raising Flour, and mix well. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until cooked through.
  4. Stand the cake in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool.
  5. To make Chocolate Icing, place Icing Sugar and Cocoa Powder in a bowl, and mix well. Then add Butter and Boiling Water, and stir until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
  6. Spread the Chocolate Icing over the cooled cake and sprinkle with Desiccated Coconut while the icing is still wet. Cut the cake into cubes.

The little sponge cake is dipped in chocolate icing and then rolled in desiccated coconut. These little treats are sold at school fairs and bake sales around the country. There's no Australian recipe so universally loved as a classic lamington. Perfect with a cuppa or even for dessert, these little choc-coconut sponges always go down a treat. Here, we've pulled together all the best variations on the traditional lamington.

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