Lamingtons Recipe | Home Cooking Journey

How to make Lamingtons | Home Cooking Journey

These are known to be Australian but are made over all Europe. It is basically a sponge cake, cut into squares and dipped in chocolate glaze. Then you can decide if you want to cover it in dessicated coconut, chopped pistachios or walnuts, I chose to try all three but my favourite was the pistachio. Please let me know if you try this recipe or any other on my channel!


Ingredients:
- 6 eggs, separated
- 200g sugar, separated in 2, one for egg yolks and one for whites
- Zest of 1 or 2 oranges
- 65ml milk
- 50g melted butter
- 250 plain flour
- pinch of salt
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- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 5 tbsp milk (you might need more if it's too thick)
- 120g sugar
- 75g butter
- rum essence
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- dessicated coconut, chopped pistachios or chopped walnuts for coating
- cherry jam for filling (if wished and optional)

Method:
First make the sponge cake: Beat egg yolks with half the sugar (so 100g) and the orange zest (or vanilla), for a few minutes. Add melted butter and milk. Gradually add in the flour and beat till combined.

Separately, beat egg whites till stiff like snow with a pinch of salt. Gradually add the other half of the sugar (100g). Fold some of the egg white mixture into the whites and continue mixing very gently till all the whites are added.

Pour batter into a lined 20x30cm baking tin and bake in preheated oven at 180°C for 15-20 mins, a stick inserted should come out clean. Make glaze: Stir cocoa powder and sugar. Add milk and butter, and mix on low heat till sugar is dissolved. You may need to add more milk if the cocoa powder spoons were heaped and the mixture looks too thick. Take off heat and add rum essence, then cool completely.

The cake should be completely cool and so should the glaze. Cut the cake into squares. I cut them quite big, but I recommend slicing them smaller because it will be easier to dip. Now, dip in the cooled glaze and then in your choice of nuts, either coxonut, pistachios or walnuts. If wished you can fill with jam and proceed in the same way.



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