Lamingtons

Cake Ingredients

• ½ cup milk
• 125g butter
• ½ tsp cream of tartar
• 2 eggs
• ½ tsp vanilla paste
• 150g sugar
• 200g all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• Butter or oil for greasing the baking pan

Chocolate Sauce Ingredients

• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1½ cups desiccated coconut or grated fresh coconut

Equipment

• Stand mixer or whisk
• Spatula for folding batter
• 9×9 inch baking pan
• Thick bottom sauce pan
• Baking parchment

Process

Preheat the oven to 170° C and line a baking tin with parchment. Grease the pan and parchment with butter or a little oil and dust sparingly with flour.

Sift the flour and baking soda and set aside.

Cream the eggs and sugar until light, fluffy and pale in a stand-mixer or with a whisk.

Heat the milk with the butter gently in a thick bottomed pan and then add the cream of tartar, stir and leave to cool slightly.

Fold in the milk and flour mixtures alternatively into the eggs and sugar until just combined with a splash of vanilla.

Pour into the prepared baking tin and bake for 25-30 minutes.

Once baked, allow to cool in the tin.

For the chocolate dipping sauce, combine the sauce ingredients (except the coconut…save that for the assembly later) in a thick bottomed pan and heat through gently until syrupy and thick. Once cooked, allow to cool.

To assemble…

Nearly there…Assemble the lamingtons by cutting the cake into squares and then dipping each square into the chocolate dipping sauce. Coat each side of the square with coconut and viola! The delectable lamington.