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    Create Bake Make / Cakes and Muffins / Australia Day Baking – Lamingtons

    Australia Day Baking – Lamingtons

    Published: Jan 23, 2014 · Modified: Jan 26, 2016 by Lauren Matheson ·

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    When I think of classic Australia Day recipes, Lamingtons are one of the first things that come to mind. I can remember my Great Nan making these when I was young and I can still see her beating the cream and sugar together in a bowl just with her hands.  Her lamingtons were always incredibly soft and yummy, and she would always leave some without jam in the middle for me.

    I’ve never made Lamingtons before, so when I set out to find a recipe for them, I couldn’t go past Margaret Fulton’s Baking book.  If I had of read the recipe properly, I would have seen her note which suggested leaving the cake for 24 hours before icing, as this helps prevent it crumbling.  Alas I missed this tip, and went ahead and iced mine as soon as they were cool.  This resulted in the cake crumbling quite a bit, and the lamingtons looked a bit worse for wear…. they still tasted yummy, which I guess is the most important thing!

    If you don’t want to go to the trouble of baking  a cake, you could always buy a butter/sponge cake from the supermarket, cut it and ice it yourself.

    Lamingtons

     

    Butter Cake

    160g butter softened

    ¾ cup caster sugar

    1 teaspoon vanilla essence

    3 eggs

    1 & ⅔ cups self raising flour – sifted 3 times

    pinch of salt

    ½ cup milk

    – Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease and line the bottom of a 20 x 30cm lamington tin.

    – Cream the butter until starting to turn white, and gradually add the caster sugar and vanilla until the mixture is pale and fluffy.

    – Meanwhile sift the flour and salt three times into a separate bowl and set aside.

    – Gradually add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

    – Fold the sifted flour alternatively with the milk into the butter mixture.

    – Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden and cooked through

    – Allow to cool completely

    Thin Chocolate Icing

    3 cups icing sugar

    3 tablespoons cocoa powder

    4 -6 tablespoons boiling water

    ½ teaspoon butter

    a few drops of vanilla essence

    You will also need approximately 2 cups of desiccated coconut & strawberry/raspberry jam if you wish

    – Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl, add the boiling water, butter and vanilla and combine until mixture is smooth and shiny.

    – Cut butter cake into small squares/oblongs

    – If using jam, cut each piece of cake in half and smear a little jam in the middle before sandwiching back together.

    – Using two forks, dip the cake into the icing mixture to coat. Allow excess icing to drip off before rolling in coconut.  Place onto a wire rack to set.

     

     

     

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    1. SarahD Nolan

      January 27, 2014 at 1:49 pm

      Yum, Yum love Lamingtons. I only heard of them in Ireland while watching Home and Away and fell in love with them when I arrived in Australia.

      Reply
    2. samstone76

      January 25, 2014 at 2:47 am

      I LOVE lamingtons!!!

      Reply
    3. minsmash

      January 25, 2014 at 1:42 am

      Oh I adore lamingtons but you know what – I don’t think I have ever made them. I’ve always bought them! I’m sure Margaret Fulton’s recipe would be a great one and they would have tasted yummylicious! 🙂 x

      Reply
      • laurenm83

        January 29, 2014 at 7:52 am

        You can’t go wrong with Margaret Fulton!

        Reply
    4. Grace

      January 24, 2014 at 4:54 am

      Ooooooh, Lamingtons! Now those scrumptious little chocolate coconut covered pieces of heaven ALWAYS make me proud to be an Aussie! 🙂

      Reply
      • laurenm83

        January 29, 2014 at 7:52 am

        So true.. Lamingtons and TimTams – yum!

        Reply
    5. bakeplaysmile

      January 23, 2014 at 11:07 am

      Yum! Margaret Fulton is such a queen of baking!! I absolutely love lamingtons but have never made them myself either… I’ll have to fix that by making a batch using your recipe! xx

      Reply

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