Lamington cakes
The best way to enjoy Lamingtons, these cocoa and coconut iced cakes,the Aussie way is with a cup of strong coffee. Make it milk or chocolate milk for the young ones.
Ingredients
Instructions
Make the sponge cake
Preheat oven to 375° F (180° C).
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
Whisk cream and sugar. Beat eggs and add, one by one, together with a tablespoon of flour each time.
Fold in remaining flour.
Transfer it to 1 greased square cake pan. If you divide the cake dough between 2 smaller pans it will bake faster.
Bake in middle shelf for minutes to 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes - 45 minutes to 1 hour if using 2 pans.
Make the icing
Sift sugar and cocoa into a small bowl.
Add butter and water and mix until smooth.
Let stand the bowl with the icing inside a large bowl of hot water until the butter has melted and the icing is runny.
Finish the cakes
Cut the sponge cake into squares.
Coat the cake squares with icing, then roll in coconut.
Let them cool on a sheet of grease proof paper.
Notes
If you are using a food processor to prepare the sponge cake, add the flour first, the processor will sift it in a blink, then cream, sugar, and eggs, whisked. Transfer to the baking pan and bake as explained before
Short of time? Get any pound cake or Madeira cake from the store, cut them into squares and use this recipe for icing to transform it into Lamington cakes
Source
These coconut and cocoa sponge cakes were created for Lord Lamington, that’s why they were named after him, in the 1880s. Some say Lord Lamington liked the cakes, some say he did not. It odes not matter, Lamingtons have become one of Australia’s favorite and their popularity could easily extend because Lamington cakes are addictive.