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Lamingtons

Ingredients:

185 g butter

250 g caster sugar

3 eggs

3/4 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

300 g self raising flour

Method:

preheat oven to 160C. line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper. beat sugar and butter to a cream , add well beaten eggs , milk , and vanilla essence, fold in sifted flour, mix well and bake for 40 minutes . when  cooked, leave in tin for five minutes. Turn onto a wire cooling rack to cool before refrigerating in an airtight container overnight. next day , cut into desired size and ice with chocolate icing as follows:

3 teaspoons butter

3 tablespoons cocoa

6 tablespoons boiling water 

3 cups icing sugar mixture

desiccated coconut

Icing: 

melt the butter, mix with boiling water and cocoa. add well sifted icing sugar and mix well. ice each cake on all sides one at a time and roll into coconut. stand on a wire rack to dry.