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Lamington – Australian chocolate coconut cake
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Lamington – Australian chocolate coconut cake

Sponge cake squares dipped in chocolate icing and rolled in coconut — an Australian baking classic.

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Rate:
55 min total
16 servings
Easy

Ingredients

servings
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  • Cake

    • 4 stk Eggs
    • 7.1 oz Sugar
    • 7.1 oz Flour
    • 2.1 oz Butter, melted

  • Icing and coconut

    • 10.6 oz Icing sugar
    • 1.4 oz Cocoa powder
    • 7.1 oz Desiccated coconut

Instructions

  1. 1

    Whisk eggs and sugar, fold in flour and melted butter

    1. Whisk the eggs with the sugar until pale and airy. Sift over the flour and gently fold it in with the melted butter until smooth. Pour into a greased tin.
  2. 2

    Bake the sponge at 180 °C for 25 min

    1. Bake the sponge in the greased tin at 180 °C for 25 min. Cool completely, then cut into squares.
  3. 3

    Mix icing from icing sugar

    1. Mix icing from icing sugar, cocoa and a little hot water.
  4. 4

    Dip cake squares in icing and roll in coconut

    1. Dip cake squares in icing and roll in coconut. Set on a rack.

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