Chocolate Lamingtons

Hi friends,

Commemorating the coming Australia Day which happens to be my birthday as well, I am sharing lamingtons recipe, the vegan version obviously.

I baked my first lamingtons when I was 16, wait… 17 maybe, can’t remember well, am old 😂 for a school baked sale. I sold out 😉 That was also the last time I ate lamingtons (in Australia), believe it or not. My mum, she baked tons of goodies, but mostly mint slice, caramel slice and such. So yeah, I didn’t have lamingtons for years.

Fast forward to 2005, I visited my husband’s family in Europe, and his late grandmother baked me kokusz kocka…aaand ta-daaaaa. It was lamingtons!

How and what now????

Kokuszkocka literally means coconut squares.

They were totally lamingtons, and grandmother said kokuszkocka is one of Hungarian specialty.

Say whaaaat…???!!

😂😂😂😂

Lamingtons is Australian and kokuszkocka is Hungarian, but both are exactly the same.

Confusing?

Let’s just check my veganized version then? 😂😂😂😂

Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 c flour
• 3/4 c sugar
• 1 tsp BSoda
• a pinch of salt
• 5 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 c water

How To

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Line a square pan with parchment paper
• Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, make a well in center and pour in dry ingredients, mix with wooden spoon
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes
• Cool on rack

Dipping

• 1/4 c + 2 tbsp icing sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp vegan margarine
• 1/4 c hot boiling water

• Mix everything

Coating

• Desiccated coconut (sweetened/unsweetened as you wish)

Lamingtons

• Slice cake into squares, dip in cocoa mixture, then roll in coconut
• Serve chilled (which is best in my opinion)