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Etymology 1 n. (context Australia obsolete English) A Homburg hat. Etymology 2
alt. (context chiefly Australia and New Zealand English) A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut. n. (context chiefly Australia and New Zealand English) A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut.
Wikipedia
A lamington is an Australian dessert or snack, typically made with squares of sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin chocolate mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, resulting in the cake's distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or strawberry jam between two lamington halves. Smaller, thinner "lamington fingers" are typically available at supermarkets, and more recently, varieties replacing the chocolate coating by lemon or raspberry icing have also become available.
Lamingtons remain a popular snack across Australia and New Zealand, as well as other parts of the world, such as South Africa, and Cleveland in the United States. Lamingtons are common products at supermarkets, cafes and bakeries.
A Lamington is a type of sponge or butter cake.
Lamington may also refer to:
Usage examples of "lamington".
He frequently rode over to Lamington to see me, and as there are necessarily many there who suspect, if they do not know, my secret, my husband would be more likely to be surprised in a lonely house there, than he would be in the city, where he can always leave or enter our abode by the passage into a back street unseen by any.
And the Wharton brats and the Langhoim garrison popping in and out like hen harriers-three weeks ago they were raiding Kirkcudbright and Lamington.
There's more money in a chemist's shop than selling lamingtons and custard tarts.
Lamingtons, raspberry-jam-and-cream sponges, pavlovas, even rock cakes.