Lamingtons

Ingredients

Quantities for 12 servings.

• 250 g Flour
• 200 g Sugar
• 150 g Butter
• 4 piece Eggs
• 120 ml Milk
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 400 g Icing sugar
• 50 g Cocoa powder
• 150 ml Hot milk
• 250 g Desiccated coconut
• 1 pinch Salt

Method

1. Beat the butter and sugar pale, add the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
2. Fold in the sifted flour with the baking powder and salt, alternating with the milk.
3. Pour into a square tin and bake at 180 °C for twenty-eight minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
4. Cool it completely and leave the sponge uncovered overnight.
5. Cut it into five-centimetre cubes.
6. Whisk the icing sugar with the cocoa and hot milk to a thin icing that runs off a spoon in a stream.
7. Dip each cube on two forks, let it drain and roll it in coconut. Leave them to set for an hour.