OUR AUSSIE LAMINGTON RECIPE

"LAMINGTONS" -------- RECIPE

Us Australians love them, not just for Australia Day, but anytime of the year.

They are basically an ordinary plain cake recipe,cut into squares, coated on 4 sides with syrupy, chocolate icing, and dipped in coconut.

The recipe below is a double mixture as we don't have a small family
But they FREEZE well

INGREDIENTS 

5 cups of self raising flour,

5 large eggs,

250 grams butter,

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla,

pinch of salt,

2 cups of sugar,

milk to make a good consistency, ( over 2 cups )

Cream together the sugar and soft ( or melted, cooled ) butter

Add eggs and vanilla.

Alternately mix in the flour and the milk, then beat all with hand beater, until creamy.

Pour into 3  7 1/2 (19 centimetres ) square greased tins,-- or into 1 large baking dish

Cook in oven at 180 % until cake is cooked

When cool cut into squares.

TO MAKE ICING

Melt 1 tablespoon of butter, together with 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla.

Add icing sugar, cocoa and water and mix together until syrupy
Quickly dip the 4 sides of the cake in the chocolate icing, and
then cover the 4 sides in coconut.
Cut in half and put whipped cream in the middle.

Lamingtons are finished,-- easy to make, but time consuming.
They are worth it, if you have unexpected visitors, just whip them out of 
the freezer, they don't take long to defrost.