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| Lamingtons by Chef Shireen anwer |
Recipe Of Lamingtons:
Ingredients
- Flour 2 cups
- Baking powder 2 tsp
- Salt ¼ tsp
- Egg 2 large
- Softened butter ½ cup
- Fine sugar ¾ cup
- Vanilla 1 tsp
- Milk ½ cup
- Ingredients for icing
- Icing sugar 2 cups
- Coco powder 3 tbsp
- Butter 3 tbsp
- Milk or cream ½ cup
- Desiccated coconut as required
Method
Preheat oven to 180 degree C, grease your 8*8 inch square tin, sieve together flour, baking powder and salt, keep aside. Beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the eggs 1 at a time beat well after adding each egg, add vanilla, use a spatula to alternating add the flour mixture and milk in 3 additions, starting and finishing with the flour spread the batter into the cake tin evenly, bake for 30 minutes, cook the cake in the tin for 5 minutes then turn on a wire rack to cool.
Method for icingPreheat oven to 180 degree C, grease your 8*8 inch square tin, sieve together flour, baking powder and salt, keep aside. Beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the eggs 1 at a time beat well after adding each egg, add vanilla, use a spatula to alternating add the flour mixture and milk in 3 additions, starting and finishing with the flour spread the batter into the cake tin evenly, bake for 30 minutes, cook the cake in the tin for 5 minutes then turn on a wire rack to cool.
In a heat proof bowl put icing sugar, coco powder, butter and milk and cook over a sauce pan of simmering water, stir the mixture until it is smooth but still a bit thick. Place the cake pieces on the wire rack, cut it into squares of desire size, quickly coat the pieces on all sides in the icing mixture and then add gently roll in desiccated coconut.
