Recipe - Lamington Butter Cake

This would have to be one of the simplest, quickest and tastiest cakes you could make! Even a novice will nail it.

Ingredients - Cake

·         125g Butter or Margarine

·         ¾ cup caster sugar

·         1 tsp vanilla

·         2 eggs

·         2 cups self-raising flour

·         ½ cup milk

Ingredients - Icing

·         1 cup icing sugar

·         I tbsp coco powder

·         1 tsp butter

·         Desiccated coconut

Method - Cake

·         Preheat oven to 180

·         Cream butter, sugar and vanilla till light and fluffy

·         Beat eggs slightly then add to butter mixture. Beat to combine

·         Sift flour and fold into mixture alternately with milk. Beat well

·         Fold into square tin (that’s lined with baking paper)

·         bake for ½ hour

·         Test to see if cooked by pricking with skewer. If it comes out clean then cake is cooked

·         Let cool slightly then turn out onto wire rack to cool

·         Ice only when cool

Method - Icing

·         Sift dry ingredients

·         Add butter

·         Mix to paste with boiling water – a little at a time i.e. start with a tablespoon

·         Sprinkle liberally with coconut whilst icing is still wet