Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

I was having a bit of a bad day with my darling 7 year old son… So I thought, you know what…I’m going to bake. I always feel better after a baking session, and this one seemed perfect as it has 3 easy steps. Each child was able to do something. I baked the sponge cake, and cut it up, Juliette dipped the sponge squares into chocolate icing and StJohn rolled the little cakes in coconut. Here’s the recipe…

1 cup of sugar

2 large eggs

1/2 cup of oil

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 1/2 cups of flour

1/2 Tablespoon baking powder

1/2 cup of milk

Mix the sugar and eggs together until well blended, then slowly add oil while beating, then add the vanilla.

Now add the milk and flour alternately.

Butter a square 20cm baking tin and bake at about 180 degrees celsius for 25 minutes.

Take it out of the oven allow it to cool and then cut it into squares, I removed the hard edges first.

We got about 24 squares out of our cake. I made some big and some small, as often the kids want a snack and it’s the wrong time of the day, so they only get a little something. The big ones are for Daddy!

While your cake is cooling, bring the following ingredients to the boil on the stove, then immediately remove from heat and allow to cool.

1 cup of sugar

 1/2 cup hot water

1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 tablespoon butter

Now both your cake and your icing should be cool (lukewarm is fine). Roll your little cakes in the icing…

Then roll them immediately in the coconut.

That’s it you’ll have perfect lamingtons!

Want to know the history of the Lamington? They were made originally by the chef of Lord Lamington, the then Governor of Queensland,who incidentally didn’t like them at all! Lord Lamington is quoted as referring to them as “those bloody,poofy,woolly biscuits”.

Filed under: Homesteading Recipes, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 4th, 2009