I baked these as cupcakes because I wasn't sure how the recipe would hold up as a sponge cake, especially as I saw several vegan sponge recipes that were all "it will fall apart!" And it seemed to work for Carla a few weeks ago. They were satisfying, but I think I'm ready to give proper lamingtons a go, because they really do need to be six sides of deliciousness.
Lamington Cupcakes
ingredients
2 cup SR flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup castor sugar
3 chinese soup spoons applesauce
50gm or so of nuttelex
¾ish cup of milk
method
Cream together the sugar, applesauce and butter. Combine with sifted flourand baking powder. Slowly mix in the milk.
Divide in to twelve cupcakes, and bake at 180C for 17 minutes.
Leave to mostly cool. Whilst cupcakes are mostly warm but heading towards cooled, dip in chocolate mixture (leave to soak for thirty seconds to a minute), and coat in desiccated coconut. You may need to cool in the fridge for half an hour to solidify the chocolate, depending on the ambient temperature. In Perth yesterday it was pretty warm!
chocolate mixture
1 cup icing sugar
¼ish cup of boiling water
2 tbl cocoa powder
Mix together until suitably runny.
NOTE regarding the Chinese soup spoons: these are perfect for egg substitution, I tend to use one overflowing spoon of applesauce per egg in a biscuit and cake recipies. They're something like a dollar from your local Chinese grocer, or use a soupspoon:tablespoon with a ratio of 1:1.5
12 comments:
That looks nomalicious. omnomnomnom.
Looks great. But what's nuttelex?
Nuttelex is what we use in place of things likle Earth Balance, it's basically a butter subsitute here in Oz!
And lovely lamington cupcakes! I have been meaning to make some lamingtons but thought they wouldn't hold up as g-free!
I want one! :P they look amazing
Cute! I love the Chinese soup spoon/egg replacement tip - will have to dig my cheap plastic ones out next time I'm baking. :-)
It was pretty nomlicious, J! I will make some for you sooooon.
Ricki, like Mandee said, Nuttelex is our butter substitute.
Mandee, I think this recipe would go okay gluten-free. It's basically a modification of my usual cake recipe, which works fine gf if I add a bit more milk.
Cindy, if you're baking cakes doing the soup spoon thing, you need to use half a tsp of baking powder, too. No need for it with biscuits, though.
i made vegan lamingtons for aus day too! :D
i just made a buttercake with nuttelex, and it didn't work 100% because i made it up as i went kinda, but they were indeed squares of cake coated in chocolate and coconut... so they passed ;)
(easier than trying for a pavlova. next year maybe!)
Hi Eloise, yeah, it's the chocolate and coconut that really makes it, which explains why I never really got into the strawberry ones! Let us know if you ever try a pav, that would be awesome.
Yum, these look seriously delicious! I've never had lamingtons before, either.
Hey Hannah,
The best lamingtons are very light sponge, with very runny choclate sauce that soaks carefully into the sponge, so when you bite into it the coconut and the chocolate stick to your teeth. You should try them, they are awesome.
On another note, have you seen this book that is coming out???
Vegan Gluten Free Cupcakes
Just thought you might be interested!
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