Lamingtons
Lamingtons are vanilla cake dipped in a chocolate sauce and covered with coconut.
Ingredients
Vanilla Cake
- 4 xl eggs
- 2 cups castor sugar
- 1 cup canola oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup milk
Chocolate Coating
- ½ cup hot milk
- 15 g unsalted butter (melted)
- 2½ cups icing sugar
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder
- 1½ cups desiccated coconut
Instructions
Vanilla Cake
- Grease and line a 9cm square baking pan with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 180°c.
- In a mixing bowl, cream sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
- Add oil and vanilla essence and mix well.
- In a separate bowl sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- Intermittently add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients along with the milk. Make sure all ingredients are well incorporated.
- Pour batter into the baking pan and bake for 30 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool completely.
- Trim off the sides of the cake and slice into even square bars.
Chocolate Coating Sauce
- In a bowl, sift together icing sugar and cocoa powder.
- Add the melted butter and hot milk to the dry ingredients.
- Whisk through until there are no lumps and set it aside.
- Dunk each cake square into chocolate sauce and lift with a fork.
- Transfer to the coconut, making sure all sides are fully coated.
- Place on a cooling rack to allow the lamingtons to set at room temperature for about 5 minutes before serving.