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plural lamingtons
(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut. quotations examples
Women were also known for their cooking skills although this was not so much in the provision of meals (which were ‘simple and wholesome’), but in the production of confectionery, ranging from scones, biscuits, sponges, cakes, etc., to such noted Australian and New Zealand delicacies as lamingtons and pavlova.
2000, Patrick Mullins, Chris Kynaston, “The Household Production of Subsistence Goods”, in Patrick Nicol Troy, editor, A History of European Housing in Australia: The Urban Peasant Thesis Reassessed, page 146
Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.
2003, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, page 136
Lamingtons are a traditional New Zealand tea-time treat: plain sponge dipped in a chocolate sauce and coated with coconut.
2005, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Ice Cream!, page 118
Enter James Lambert, word detective. Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington. Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.
2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age