Lamingtons

Eid Mubarak

Ramadan is already over...and i know i'm a little late with an Eid post, but didn't really get time before this, what with Eid coming on a long weekend for a change.
So this year I decided to make lamingtons for eid. And talk about a mammoth task, especially since Eid came early this year,and i was short of time.
I adapted my moist chocolate cake recipe to make a moist vanilla cake (which i wanted to try since a long time). the cake turned out ok, but not the best as it did not rise as much as the chocolate cake does. although I couldn't pinpoint why.
 I made both chocolate and jelly lamingtons and with the frosting and the coconut the lamingtons tasted really fine..

• Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
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• 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup vanilla custard powder
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• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
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• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2  eggs
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• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
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• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
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Method:
Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
Stir together sugar, flour, custard powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

For chocolate lamingtons:

Chocolate Frosting:

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

5 tbsp cocoa powder

1 tbsp melted butter

1/3 cup boiling water

Sift icing sugar and cocoa powder together, add melted butter and boiling water and mix till smooth and not too thin.

dip vanilla cake squares in chocolate icing, let it rest on a wire rack, so that all the extra chocolate sauce can drip out. roll in desiccated coconut.

cool for the icing to set.

For jelly lamingtons:

1 packet of strawberry jelly

Mix jelly in 2/3 of the water mentioned on packet, and let it set at room temperature. use a fork to break up the jelly.

dip cut pieces of cake in jelly and follow same procedure as the chocolate lamingtons, and enjoy.