Lamingtons

If you’ve never made your own Lamingtons before, you’ll be amazed at how quick and easy the Lamington recipe is.

In fact, this light and fluffy sponge are traditionally from Australia. We are using our Sugar and Crumbs Natural Flavoured Cocoa Powders.

What are Lamingtons?

If you have never heard of a Lamington before, then that might be because they come all the way from Australia – small squares of light, fluffy sponge, dipped in dark chocolate icing and rolled in coconut. The icing is made with our Sugar and Crumbs Chocolate cocoa powder. In addition, we have adapted the traditional recipe using our Sugar and Crumbs Natural Flavoured Cocoa Powders. You can use any flavour of your choice and combine them!

It will keep up to one week in the fridge, in an airtight container.

In addition, you can also use any flavour from our amazing range of Natural Flavoured Cocoa Powders!

Take a look at our full range of Natural Flavoured Icing Sugars and Cocoa Powders!

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200° C, 180° C fan, 350 F, Gas mark 4.

2. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat together with the margarine. Add the sugar, beat again and then repeat with the self-raising flour and the baking powder.

3. Grease a deep square brownie tin and line it with greaseproof paper. Fill with the cake mixture, spreading it out so it’s roughly even (and being sure to push it all the way into the corners).

4. Then bake for 22 minutes until risen and golden. Leave to cool completely. I would actually recommend leaving it overnight so that the cake has a chance to firm up a little. This will make it easier to cut up.

5. To make the icing mix together the icing sugar and Sugar and Crumbs Chocolate Lime Natural Flavoured Cocoa Powder (or any flavour of your choice) and then stir through the boiling water to make a thick paste.

6. Add the melted butter and finally the milk, mixing really well to make a smooth icing.

7. Get everything ready for the icing stage, sprinkle a thick layer of desiccated coconut on a plate and cover a baking tray or board with greaseproof paper ready for the finished cakes.

8. To ice the cakes, simply dip them in the icing making sure to cover them completely.

9. Then roll in the coconut and lay it on the prepared baking tray or board. You may find it helps to do the chocolate icing with one hand and the coconut with the other to prevent the end result from being too messy!

10. Once all of the cakes are decorated, place the tray or the board in the fridge for an hour or so, to set the icing.