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Kiwi Lamingtons

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Kiwi Lamingtons

New Zealand-style lamingtons with a raspberry jam centre and coconut coating. Freezing the sponge for an hour before cutting it into squares gives clean, sharp edges instead of the cake crumbling apart as it's handled.

Total time
120 min
Prep
90 min
Cook
30 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
New Zealand
vegetarian

Ingredients

250gbutter, softened
1 cupcaster sugar
4eggs
2 cupsself-raising flour
1/2 cupmilk
raspberry jamfor centres
3 cupsicing sugar
1/3 cupcocoa powder
1/2 cupboiling water
3 tbspbutter, melted
3 cupsdesiccated coconut

Instructions

1

Bake a plain vanilla sponge: beat butter and sugar, add eggs, fold in flour and milk. Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes.

2

Cool and freeze 1 hour. Cut into squares and cut each in half horizontally.

3

Fill with raspberry jam and replace tops.

4

Dip in chocolate icing and roll in coconut.

5

Set on a rack.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
1810
Protein
20g
Fat
107.1g
Carbs
209.6g
Fiber
15.7g
Sodium
495mg

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