Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lamingtons. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lamingtons is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Lamingtons is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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 are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lamingtons using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lamingtons:
- Make ready Sponge Ingredients
- Take 2/3 cup (100 g) plain flour
- Take 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 50 g unsalted butter
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Make ready 1/2 cup (110 g) caster sugar
- Get 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
- Make ready 75 g butter
- Prepare Decoration Ingredient
- Make ready 200 g shredded coconut, to coat
- Get Black currant jam, between sponges
Have you ever had lamingtons before? These gorgeous little cakes are absolutely divine. Homemade soft sponge cakes dipped in chocolate and covered in coconut. See more ideas about Lamingtons, Food, Desserts.
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
We all have our preferences, some of us swear by the classic version, some like the cream. Lamingtons are an Australian specialty cake. Small squares of white cake are dipped in a chocolate frosting and then covered in coconut. Is the lamington the most Australian cake? When lamingtons get fancy, they turn into glamingtons.
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