thpinkpussycat

Does anyone have a good recipe for Lammington?
My daughters school is having a cake sale to raise money for the Asian Tsunami, so I thought as we are off to OZ soon I would get some practice in and bake Lammingtons! :scared:

Many thanks
Sam

charlie63

Hi Sam

Great idea, try this recipe from the womans weekly web site! you origional then go to the origionals
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/aww/recipe...TV/48/4810.asp

Charlie

thpinkpussycat

Thanks, that looks great. Will have a go over the weekend, then use work as guinea pigs!

vikk

PM Sue from Manchester. She made some for out last North-West meet & they were lovely so the recipie works.

Sue from Manchester

Why thank you Vikk. Just got it from the internet. But here it is, I doubled the quantities to make enough and found I had to make some more chocolate icing as it soaks it up:

3/4 cup sugar (any type, I used ordinary)
2 tablespoons marg/butter - cream together
2 beaten eggs - beat into mix
1 cup flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder - fold into mix.

Put into cake tin, bake moderate oven (say, No 5) for 30 mins or so.

Icing - put 2 teaspoons cocoa and 1 cup icing sugar into a saucepan with 1/4 cup water. Heat and stir for 3 mins or so.

Have ready a dish of dessicated coconut.

When cake is cooked turn out and cool. Cut into squares. Put a fork in the bottom of each square and dip top and sides into warm chocolate icing and then into coconut until it sticks. Then leave to drip dry. Done.

Have fun.

Sue

thpinkpussycat

Thanks Sue
Looking forward to giving them a go.
I am the only one in our house that likes them so the first batch will go to work!

steandleigh

Do 'Lamingtons' not have jam inside them too?

Or 'sponge', covered in 'jam covered in 'choc', covered in 'coconut'????

Or was that just me in cake heaven????

thpinkpussycat

I think you can spilt them and put jam and/or cream in the middle then cover them choc and coconut! MMmmmmmm

tiredwithtwins

im drooling................................

thepoacher

Yeah, I seem to remember the classic Lamington recipe when I was growing up involving jam in the middle - it has been ten years since I had one though.

Kelli28

hey sam what a great idea our cake thingy for the tsunami is on tues thinks i shall get baking im going to do half with the coconut liqueur in the cream for work and half without for school

worzel

Anyone know a recipe for billy tea too and where you can get the ingredients in the UK?

Brissiegirl

billy tea - take one billy and fill with water and place over an open eucalypt wood fire.. allow to come to boil... add loose leaf plain tea and a couple of fresh eucalpyt leaves... remove billy from fire.. grasp billy handle with a cloth and firm grip.. swing in a big circle a few times - do not burn yourself!! or just stir it as it's much safer.. enjoy with a little sugar, no milk, with damper and cocky's joy (that's golden syrup btw)....

worzel

Are you allowed to use tea or is that cheating?

We did a 3 day safari to Uluru and after a long tiring day the guide said he was going to cook dinner on a camp stove. Stew and damper bread didn't sound appealing but it tasted fantastic especially after an hour on a quad bike at dusk and a couple of (not so) cold ones.

So next question - how do you make damper bread?