Welcome back to my beautiful and tasty Kitchen Corner 🙂
Today I will share with you one of my favourite recipes for an easy, quick and delicious dessert!
Ingredients:
Cake
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup buttermilk
Chocolate Icing
1/3 cup unsalted butter
1 cup milk
1/2 cup cocoa powder
3 cups powdered sugar
You will need about 2 cups of shredded coconut to cover the squares.
Method:
Preheat oven to 180 C.
Grease and line the bottom of a square pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix everything really well.
Using a bowl of an electric mixer or a hand mixer, combine well the sugar and eggs. Gradually add oil and vanilla and mix until just smooth.
Slowly add half the flour mixture while the mixer is on; mix until just blended, then add the buttermilk. Slowly add remaining flour mixture, until everything is blended.
I’ve used one square baking pan, but if you have two small ones, just divide the batter between the two.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Once done, let the cake cool completely. Cut the cake in small squares.
To prepare the chocolate icing, melt the butter and mix it with milk. Whisk in cocoa powder until completely dissolved. Add the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, and whisk slowly until thickened. Let it cool for about 5 minutes.
To assemble, put the coconut in a bowl and set aside.
Use forks to dip and turn a cake square into the chocolate icing to coat all sides. Allow excess icing to drip off. Then place the square in coconut. Sprinkle coconut on the top, then start turning in coconut to coat other sides. Place the square on a wire rack and allow to sit for at least 15 minutes to set.
Repeat the same process with all of the remaining squares.
As I’ve baked the lamingtons, I was thinking that next time I could add some dried cranberries into the batter and make it a bit more interesting:)
It was a sunny weekend so we’ve decided to make a delicious orange and mango smoothie next to the beautiful lamingtons!
If you never made lamingtons before, this is your time…or maybe you would like to give it a twist…a sweet cranberry twist 🙂
Enjoy!
Bon appetit!
Your Girl with an Apron,
Julia
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These look so yummy!
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Thank you:)
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Thank you very much, feel very honoured:)
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They look delish!! I’m not a fan of coconut so I thought of rolling them in chocolate sprinkles instead…can never have enough chocolate!! Thanks for sharing…:-)
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That’s right…there is no such thing as too much chocolate:)))))
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Looks delicious! I feel like missing it now haha!
Lamingtons are famous in Wellington -the capital of NZ that’s where I first tasted it and my father loves it 🙂
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Yum love coconut and chocolate winning combination.
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You had me hooked with the coconut. I am definitely trying these!
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Let me know if you liked them:)
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Hi Julia, your recipe looks delicious…the other day I had a lamington (shop bought) and it had cream in the middle and was delicious too. Love your photos!!
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I know those one, I used to baked them with jam in the middle, but now I prefer the whole ones just dipped in chocolate:)))))
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Yum, looks delicious!
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Thank you:)
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