Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, australian lamingtons !!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Australian Lamingtons !! is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Australian Lamingtons !! is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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. Recipe of an Australian chocolate and coconut coated sponge cake sometimes filled with jam. Named after Lord Lamington, history has it that the sponge cake.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook australian lamingtons !! using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Australian Lamingtons !!:
- Make ready CAKE BASE
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup selfraising flour - sifted .
- Prepare 1/3 cup cornflour - sifted .
- Get 185 grams - butter . softened
- Make ready 1 cup caster sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 3 eggs .
- Get 1/2 cup milk
- Prepare CHOCOLATE SAUCE ICING
- Prepare 4 cup - icing sugar
- Take 1/3 cup cocoa - extra can be added if taste desires .
- Make ready 30 grams - butter
- Prepare 2/3 cup milk .
- Take TOP COAT
- Take 3 cup shredded coconut .
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. Lamingtons are an Australian snack cake consisting of squares of sponge cake dipped in a chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut.
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 .
Sometimes they have a layer of jam in the middle of the sponge. They were originally created as a way to use up leftover or stale sponge cake, because the chocolate. Julie gives us her take on Australian Lamingtons. Lamingtons, an Aussie classic dessert recipe. I was not sure if it really works, because the Lamingtons will not be that moist anymore and I really love those melt in your mouth Lamingtons, so I have decided to go with freshly Cuisine: Australian.
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