Lamingtons Recipe | Lamington Cake Recipe | Australian Chocolate Cake Recipe

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