Lamington - The Aussie classic: An Australian dessert

 

Baking was taking a back seat for last few months in my kitchen. Yesterday only I  thought of baking a cake for some guests but something different from the regular cakes. So it was lamington at home. Lamington which is a popular Australian dessert is basically sponge cake cut into squares, coat with chocolate sauce and roll onto coconut flakes. Heavenly delicious dessert I must say.. As I was having  some new oranges at home , so I baked an orange flavoured cake instead of the basic sponge cake. As all of us know that orange & chocolate is like match made in heaven, lamingtons tasted just awesome.

Ingredients:

For the orange cake:
Plain flour/maida: 2 cups
Butter: 1/2 cup melted at room temperature
Sugar: 1/2 cup (you can increase the sweetness as per your liking)
Egg: 2
Baking powder: 4 tsp
A pinch of salt
Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp
Orange juice: 1/4 cup
Orange zest: 1 tsp

For the chocolate sauce:

Butter: 2-3 tbsp. melted at room temperature
sugar: 1/2 cup powdered
Cocoa powder: 1/3 cup
Warm milk: 1/2 cup

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Dry Coconut flakes: As required for rolling the cake pieces

Preparation:

Preheat the oven at 270 degree Celsius. Grease a cake tin with butter/oil and dust some plain flour and keep aside.

In a mixing bowl, sift the flour, salt, baking powder and mix the orange zests.  Mix the butter & sugar in another bowl nicely. You can use a hand blender or beater as well. I use a balloon beater. Now into this, beat the eggs one by one till fluffy. Into this add the orange juice, and vanilla essence and again beat all nicely. Now add in the flour mixture into this in batches and combine well with the cut & fold method.

Pour the batter into the greased tin and bake at 180 degree Celsius for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Mine took almost 35 minutes.

Once the cake is ready, allow it to cool down.

In the mean while , prepare the sauce. In a mixing bowl , beat the sugar & butter till fluffy. Add the cocoa powder & mix. Finally add the milk and combine all nicely. The sauce should not be of running consistency. So if you feel your sauce becomes runny, you can put it on low-medium flame in a saucepan so that it thickens a little and is perfect for using. I had to do this to thicken my sauce.

In a bowl, take the coconut flakes.
Cut the cake into square sized shapes. Now dip one piece of cake into the chocolate sauce so that chocolate coats over the cake properly from all sides. Roll the cake piece on the coconut flakes and keep aside in a dish. Follow the same procedure for rest of the cake pieces.

So here s your lamingtons ready. Keep in refrigerator in air-tight container and enjoy with your cup of tea/coffee.

My guest  loved eating them for sure and that made me happy ..that I am sure of ..

Try this super delicious lamingtons and do share your feedback .