Me and Lamingtons 5: Kahlua Lamingtons, Australia Day, Birthday Celebration

Happy Aussie Day!

At last we are on our last day of Me and Lamingtons series as Straya Day is here 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

As Australia time zone is way ahead of North America, I always celebrate Aussie Day a day earlier (here in Canada), so I would celebrate it on the same time 😁

My family would send birthday wishes to me on the exact date of their date, which is a day early to me, thus I also celebrate Australia Day a day earlier 😂 Am I making sense????

Anyhoo, it’s been fun baking various lamingtons and on the last day of this series, I thought I wasn’t gonna bake any! I know I planned, but my little caught the cold and I’ve been busy with him throughout the day.

I was thinking to make tiramisu lamingtons, but since I didn’t really have the spare time I thought I would have, I didn’t have time to make vegan “mascarpone”, in the end I came up with the following

Kahlua Lamingtons!!

Thought instead slicing it normal bitesize, I made Australia-shaped lamington instead 😂

I’m glad little babe is feeling better as soon as his big brother and father arrived at home, so everyone gave me time to get busy, less than 2 H later, we got the edible Australia 😁

I hope I did justice although I think I shaped Tasmania way too big ✌️

My sponge cake is rather brownies following the Kahlua I believe. I didn’t expect it to be darker as the batter wasn’t.

Anyhoo, let’s see how I made this lamingtons 😊

Kahlua Sponge Cake

• 1 1/2 c flour
• 1/2 c sugar
• 1 tsp BSoda
• a pinch of salt

In a measuring cup, mix:

• 2 tbsp Kahlua and enough water to make 1 c liquid
• Mix dry ingredients
• Pour in Kahlua liquid, 5 tbsp oil, 1 tsp vanilla essence, 1 tsp vinegar
• Mix to combine and pour into parchment lined square pan
• Bake on preheated 350 F for 35 minutes
• Cool on rack until comfortable enough to touch
• Trace an Australian map on the cake and cut cake accordingly
• Halve cake as shown and separate the slices, let cool more

Meanwhile, pulverize enough desiccated coconut, then make dipping

Dipping

• 3 tbsp Kahlua
• 1/4 c hot water
• 1 tbsp vegan margarine
• 4 tbsp icing sugar
• Mix everything to combine

Lamingtons

• Flip the bottom of cake, brush with dipping, sprinkle generously with coconut, flip back
• Brush cake generously with dipping, lift carefully and move to a plate/cake board

• Pipe coconut whipped cream all over
• Brush the other half of the cake with dipping, lift carefully and flip to top whipped cream
• Brush cake top with dipping, sprinkle with coconut
• Dip Tasmania in dipping and roll in coconut

Ta-daaaa

Babe went to school this morning with his Roo t-shirt . He was shouting Australiaaaa when I snapped the picture 😂

Happy Australia Day and Happy Birthday Me! 😂

❤️🇦🇺💃🍻🇦🇺❤️

Now am off, gonna enjoy this Kahlua before the boys forget me 😂 Enjoy your barbie guys!