Lamington Cake
Lamington is an Australian cake,made of squares of sponge cake, coated in an outer layer of chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
Ingredients :
for sponge cake
- eggs - 3
- powdered sugar - 1 cup
- oil/butter - 1/2 cup
- vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
- all purpose flour/maida - 1 cup
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- salt - a pinch
for chocolate icing
- powdered sugar - 1.5 cup
- cocoa powder - 1.5 tbs
- unsalted soft butter - 1 tsp
- hot milk - 3 tbs
for coating
- desiccated coconut 1 cup or as needed
Method
step 1 : prepare cake tin
- grease an 8 inch pan with butter or oil and dust it with flour
- remove the excess flour and keep this aside
step 2 : preheat oven
- preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius
- you can bake this on stove top also
step 3 : prepare sponge cake
- in a large mixing bowl beat the eggs and sugar
- add the sugar gradually
- beat until the mix become thick and light cream in colour
- add the oil and vanilla essence and beat until well combined
- sift in flour, baking powder and salt
- fold in gently
- pour this into the prepared baking tin and tap 3 - 4 times
- bake this in the preheated oven at 170 degree Celsius for 25 - 30 minutes
- once the cake is done remove from oven
- after 10 minutes remove the cake from cake tin and allow it to cool completely
- then cut them into 5 cm squares
step 4 : prepare chocolate icing
- in a bowl mix together powdered sugar and cocoa powder
- add in butter and milk
- add milk gradually
- the mix should not be too thick or too thin
step 5 : coating
- dip each cake squares in the chocolate icing
- shake to remove the excess
- then roll in desiccated coconut
- allow them to dry for some time and then serve
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