Classic Lamington Squares

Ingredients

• 125 gram butter, softened
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 piece eggs
• 1 3/4 cup self-raising flour
• 125 millilitre milk
• 3 cup icing sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 160 millilitre boiling water
• 2 1/2 cup desiccated coconut

Instructions

1. 1Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
2. 2Beat the butter, caster sugar and vanilla with electric beaters until pale, then beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. 3Fold in half the flour, then half the milk. Repeat with the remaining flour and milk.
4. 4Spread into the tin and bake for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely, then cut into 16 squares.
5. 5Make the icing: sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a wide bowl, then whisk in the boiling water until smooth and runny.
6. 6Put the coconut in a shallow dish. Using two forks, dip one cake square in the icing, let the excess drip off, then roll it in coconut.
7. 7Place on a wire rack to set. Repeat with the remaining squares.