Amazing Lamingtons

Posted 2017-02-27 by BritishStorm ⇒ follow

A homemade Lamington is a thing of beauty. Give this one a try. You will be glad that you did !

For a fun variation I sometimes roll these in hundreds and thousands instead of coconut. The kids love it.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6

Ingredients
For the Cake:
125g Butter
1 Cup Caster Sugar
½ Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
3 Eggs
1 ¾ cups of SR Flour – Sifted
½ cup of Milk

For the Icing:
3 ½ cups of icing sugar mixture
¼ cups cocoa powder
1 tablespoon butter
½ cup of boiling water

Additional:
2 Cups of Desiccated Coconut

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees (160 fan forced).

Grease and flour a 20x30cm lamington tray.

Beat butter, sugar & vanilla until light and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time.

Sift half of the flour over the butter mix and stir.

Add half of the milk and stir.

Repeat with remaining flour and milk

Bake for 30 minutes or until a lovely golden brown. *Leave to cool. If you can leave it overnight in the fridge, that is perfect!

Make the icing. Sift icing sugar and cocoa. Add the butter and boiling water and stir well.