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Australian Lamingtons !! is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Australian Lamingtons !! is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine 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. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. Recipe of an Australian chocolate and coconut coated sponge cake sometimes filled with jam.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook australian lamingtons !! using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Australian Lamingtons !!:
- Make ready CAKE BASE
- Take 1 1/2 cup selfraising flour - sifted .
- Get 1/3 cup cornflour - sifted .
- Get 185 grams - butter . softened
- Prepare 1 cup caster sugar
- Take 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready 3 eggs .
- Prepare 1/2 cup milk
- Get CHOCOLATE SAUCE ICING
- Take 4 cup - icing sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup cocoa - extra can be added if taste desires .
- Prepare 30 grams - butter
- Prepare 2/3 cup milk .
- Get TOP COAT
- Take 3 cup shredded coconut .
Lamingtons are a vanilla sponge dipped in chocolate then coated with coconut. They may or may not have a layer of cream in the middle (this one doesn't, to keep things simpler) - but are delicious either way. The world-famous Australian culinary icon Lamington consists of a sponge cake that is dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with finely desiccated coconut. The cake is believed to have been created by accident when Lord Lamington's maid accidentally dropped his favorite cake in melted chocolate.
Instructions to make Australian Lamingtons !!:
- CAKE BASE : Preheat oven to 180'C / 360°F . Brush a shallow 23cm square cake tin with melted butter or oil and line base and sides of tin (slice tin) with baking paper .
- Place sifted flour and cornflour into a large bowl and add the butter , sugar , vanilla essence , lightly beaten eggs and the milk and using an electric mixer , beat on low speed for one minute or until all ingredients are just moist then beat on high for 3 - 5 minutes until mixture is free from lumps , smooth and increased in volume .
- Pour mixture into prepared tin and smooth the surface then bake for approximately 55 minutes or until skewer come out clean when inserted into the centre of cake . Let cooked cake stand in the tin for about 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack . let cake cool completely .
- CHOCOLATE SAUCE TOPPING : Sift icing sugar and cocoa combine with butter and milk in a medium heatproof bowl and stir over a pan of hot water ( double boiler ) and stir until icing is smooth and glossy .
- COATING THE CAKES : Trim and level brown top and sides from the cake leaving it a bare even cake . Cut cake into even square individual pieces .
- Using 2 forks , to hold one cake square , roll cake piece into chocolate icing mix , making sure to coat the cake in chocolate all over , then holding it over the icing bowl to allow excess to drain off . now roll chocolate coated cake squares into the tray of coconut and roll around to coat all over the chocolate , then place on a wise rack to set properly and repeat with all remaining cake squares . add extra coconut for rolling in if needed . serve and enjoy . :-) .
- HINT : 1. Cake is easier to handle if made the day before cutting and coating .
- 2 . You can use a premade sponge or butter cake to cut and coat .
- 3 . They can be filled with jam and or cream before coating .
But the humble lamington surely reigns supreme over all: an iconic hybrid of cake and slice (is it a sponge? Is it a sponge/slice?), a narrative of coconut, chocolate and jam, all building to the ultimate crescendo question: cream or no cream? There is no cake more Australian than Lamingtons! A moist butter sponge dipped in chocolate then coated with coconut, this is The Cake sold at every suburban bakery and weekend fundraisers. You'll get coconut everywhere making them and eating them.
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