Vanilla Bean Lamingtons Recipes

Steps:

• ----Red----.
• Prepare jelly according to packet instructions.
• Cover and leave to cool for 1 hour (approx) You will need to use it before it turns to jelly.
• ----Chocolate----.
• Melt butter, add cocoa dissolved in boiling water.
• Mix in sifted icing sugar, add vanilla, and beat well.
• -----Cake--------.
• Cut sponge in to smallish squares.
• Place coconut into shallow bowl.
• Dip half of the sponge squares in the chocolate icing turning to coat evenly on all sides.
• Dip immediately into coconut covering all sides.
• Dip the remaining squares in the red jelly and cover with the coconut.
• Leave to dry on cake rack then store in air tight container for up to 2 days.
• To serve, split and fill with whipped cream.

Steps:

• 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.