Mr. P from Delicious Delicious Delicious is starting another round of his Re-Inventing the Lamington contest from last year.  I didn’t catch wind of the contest or even what a lamington was until far too late in 2010, so I am pretty excited to have a competition this year in which I can compete!

For anyone who doesn’t know what a lamington is (I certainly didn’t) it’s a small square cake typically covered in a chocolate shell and rolled in dessicated coconut.  I thought “dessicated” was an interesting (if rather violent) adjective for coconut, but I suppose it’s exactly as descriptive as it needs to be.  Here’s Wikipedia’s lamington description (including the picture below).

Hurro.

The lamington originated in Australia, interestingly enough, and I’ve confirmed this from a fellow Australian or two from my online gaming (not that I thought the internet was lying; I had just never heard of them and wanted supporting evidence).  I’m not sure how I managed to go through my whole life without ever hearing of them, but now that hole of knowledge can be filled.  With cake.

The picture above shows a lamington with a center layer, but according to purists, apparently a “real” lamington is a solid cake; no filling is required.  That’s where real lamingtons and this competition diverge: Mr. P wants the craziest and most creative lamington creations we can think of, and I think that sounds like wicked fun.

So if you’re a baker, I say have some fun and go make a some lamingtons!  Mr. P has a basic lamington recipe to get you started as well as some simple contest rules, but other than that it’s basically a license to go wild.  Good luck, and stay tuned for my personal lamington experiment.

Mary Gezo

Formerly of both n00bcakes and !Blog, the two magically become one on Spatialdrift; expect some lazy baking and serious nerditude. Also, I love semicolons.