Lamingtons–Pieces of cake rolled in chocolate and coated in coconut are a sure hit on the cookie tray.
A Lamington is a little piece of sponge cake dipped in a chocolate coating and rolled in coconut. We’ve been eating these for years but never called them Lamingtons. I don’t even know what we called them, maybe: “Those Cake Things Rolled In Coconut”. Australians lay claim to their origin and that’s all right by me. I don’t know if they traveled to Newfoundland via Australia or if some thrifty Newfoundland housewife just stumbled upon them trying to save a bit of stale cake. However they came here is irrelevant at this point in time.
The other day I happened to have quite a bit of cake on hand that I needed to use up. I made a Hot Milk Sponge Cake for the bottom layer of a wedding cake I will be making later on this week and the cake sank in the middle (Oh, horrors!). I had this huge 10-inch cake that wasn’t bad enough to throw out but not good enough for the wedding cake. What to do? One can only eat so much cake, you know. And then I thought about these little gems. I wasn’t long slicing up the offending cake and turning it into a tasty treat for family and friends.
