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Lamington

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Lamington is a dessert of sponge cake (or more traditionally, butter cake), cut into squares, coated in a layer of chocolate or strawberry icing, and topped with coconut.

Ingredients

  • Sponge cake
  • Chocolate icing
  • Dessicated coconut

Instructions

  1. 1
    Cut the sponge cake into your desired shapes (commonly 5–7 cm cubes).
  2. 2
    Prepare a flat tray with an even layer of desiccated coconut shavings
  3. 3
    Dip the sponge cake cubes into chocolate icing.
  4. 4
    Immediately dip the coated cake into the coconut, or sprinkle the coconut on top.
  5. 5
    Put aside to dry and set.
Category
Desserts
Cuisine
Australian

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lamington