Lamingtons

Ingredients

• 4 oz butter
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• pinch salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• Chocolate icing ingredients:
• 500 grams icing sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 2 teaspoons melted butter
• sufficient milk to make smooth coating consistency
• shredded coconut

Directions

Lamingtons were invented so as the swaggies (men who travelled around Australia by foot looking for work, they carried all their belongings on their back in their swag, hence their name)and other people in Australia in the 19th century could keep cake (and eat it) with out it being stale)

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beat well. Fold in sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Spoon into a greased and floured deep 18 x 28 cm tin. Bake in a moderate oven 30 to 40 minutes. Allow to stand in the tin for a few minutes before turning out on to a cake cooler.

It is best to make the cake the day before you want to cut and ice the lamingtons, as fresh cakes tend to crumble.

Cut the cake into squares. Dip in chocolate icing, then toss in coconut.

Chocolate icing: Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a basin. Add melted butter and warmed milk. Beat well.

Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Australian Womans Weekly Cookbook
Submitted By: Vanessa Hutchins
hutchins@cwi.net.au
Lamingtons