lamington
Sign in to saveA lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or strawberry jam between two lamington halves.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Lamington
- Food.image
- Mocha Flake amingtons.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Lamington cut open
- Food.country
- Australia
- Food.region
- Queensland
- Food.type
- Sponge cake
- Food.main_ingredient
- Cake, chocolate sauce, desiccated coconut
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sponge cake
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Material used
- icing
- Image
- Mocha Flake amingtons.jpg
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- Lamingtons
- indigenous to
- Queensland
- native label
- lamington
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A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or strawberry jam between two lamington halves.
==Origins== Lamingtons are believed to be named after either Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, or his wife, Lady Lamington. Most sources incline to the former. The earliest known reference to the naming of the lamington, from June 1927, links the cake to Lord Lamington.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lamington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.