Cookbook:Lamington

| Australian Cuisine | New Zealander Cuisine

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

Procedure

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