Lamington from New Zealand

 Lamington is a dessert typical from New Zealand and Australia.

Lamington was governor of Queensland ,Australia between 1896 and 1901.

Some people says that it was the chef from the governor Lamington, Armand Galland, who invented this recipe.

Armand Galland needed to prepare a special meal for some unexpected guests.

To make something quick, he thought on using the remainings of a vanille sponge cake done the previous day. He cut the sponge cake into little pieces and bathed it in chocolate and grated coconut.

This dessert was a success , the recipe was published in several newspapers. 

Some people say that the Lamington are a copy of an older dessert called Wellington.

Ingredients for the sponge cake (25 pieces):

- 125 gr. butter.
- 150 gr powder sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 230 gr flour.
- 2 teaspoon chemical  yeast.
- Salt.
- 1 tea spoon vanilla extract.
- 100 ml. milk.
- 200 gr. grated coconut.




Ingredients for the topping:

- 400 gr. sugar powder.
- 4 tablespoon  cocoa powder (100%).

- 25 gr. butter.
- 100 ml. de milk.

Method:

First prepare the sponge cake:

1- Mix butter and sugar,

2- Add eggs one by one, mix well.

3- Take other bowl and mix flour, yeast and salt, sieve.

4- Mix the mixture from step 3 with the sugar, butter and eggs from step 2.

5- Take other bowl and mix the milk with vanilla, add half of the mixture from step 4, stir well. Then add the rest of the mixture from step 4 until everything is well mixed.

6- Take an oven proof dish 20x20 ,oil the dish and preheat at 180ºC.

7- Cook in oven at the same temperature for 30 - 45 minutes.

To know if it is well cooked, poke the cake with a knife , the knife should come out clean.

8- Let cool and then cut into little cubes.

Prepare the topping:

9- Sieve the sugar and cocoa , add butter and milk , mix well. 

10- Bathe every lamington into the cocoa mixture.

11- Put grated coconut in a dish, put lamingtons in the dish so the grated coconut sticks on the lamington surface.

¡Here you have the lamingtons!:

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