Vanilla Bean Lamingtons
- Cake
- 6 eggs
- 2/3 cup caster sugar
- 1/3 cup cornflour
- 1/2 cup plain flour
- 1/3 cup self-raising flour
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Icing
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 cups coconut
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease 8x8 square pan.
- Beat eggs in medium bowl with electric mixer about 10 minutes, or until thick and creamy.
- Gradually beat in sugar, dissolving between additions.
- Add vanilla extract and scrape vanilla bean seeds into the mixture (Be sure to save the bean husk for vanilla sugar.mmm!)
- Sift together flours in separate bowl.
- Fold in flour to the wet mixture.
- Spread mixture in prepared pan.
- Bake for about 30 minutes.
- Turn onto wire rack to cool.
- Icing:
- Sift icing sugar and cocoa into heatproof bowl, stir in butter and milk.
- Stir over pan of simmering water until icing is of coating consistency.
- Cut cake into 16 squares, dip squares into icing, drain off excess icing, toss squares in coconut.
- Place lamingtons on wire rack to set.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/vanilla-bean-lamingtons-230135 (may not work)