LAMINGTON SQUARES

Ingredients

450ml self-raising flour, sifted
1ml salt
200ml castor sugar
2 extra large eggs
175ml milk
125ml butter or margarine, softened
5ml vanilla essence
100g dark chocolate, melted
500 ml desiccated coconut

Chocolate Icing ingredients

4 cups icing sugar, sifted
75 ml cocoa, sifted
125 ml milk

Method

• Place flour and salt in mixing bowl, add sugar, eggs, milk and butter
• Beat for 2 – 3 minutes or until well blended.
• Pour half the mixture into another mixing bowl.
• Add vanilla essence to one half and chocolate to the other.
• Pour vanilla mixture into greased and lined 230mm square baking pan.
• Pour chocolate mixture to create marbled effect.
• Bake at 180 ºC for 30 – 40 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
• Turn out onto cooling rack.

Chocolate icing method

• Place icing sugar and cocoa in saucepan over hot water; gradually add milk, stirring until smooth.
• Trim crusts from cake.
• Cut into 20 to 25 squares, dip into chocolate icing and then into coconut.
• Allow to set on cooling rack.

Makes about 20 – 25 squares.