hello and welcome back to Alyena's kitchen where today we are going to be making strawberry
lamingtons these lamingtons are so delicious and they're also beautiful they're great for Easter,
baby showers, or anything that you want to be pretty in pink so let's get started
the first thing we are going to start with with making our lamingtons is sifting together
the dry ingredients so i have three cups of all-purpose flour which i'm going to be adding in
along with half a cup of corn flour as well as one tablespoon of baking powder
and half a teaspoon of salt so now we're just going to sit this together and so it's light
and fluffy now that i've sifted together my dry ingredients i'm just going to give it a stir
making sure that everything's fully combined and then we can move on to our wet ingredients
we're working with a lot of butter we actually have one cup or this is two sticks of butter
and we want this to be room temperature so it's slightly softened
and we're just going to cream this together with our sugar and we're using two and a fourth
cups of sugar and we're just gonna cream this together until it's light and fluffy
now we can add in our eggs and i'm going to set my mixer to a low speed
and add in my eggs one at a time and today i have three eggs
now we can add in our egg whites and i have three egg whites that i'm going to be adding in
along with one tablespoon of vanilla extract now we can start adding in our dry ingredients
and i'm going to go back and forth on a low speed with mixing in my flour and adding in a 3
4 cup of whole milk i found this dessert when i was in australia backpacking for a few months
and i absolutely fell in love with lamingtons they're so delicious and so light and fluffy and
i love the chocolate ones but then i saw that they also can make them with strawberry and i was like
that's so pretty we have to make this and they're so delicious i've preheated my oven to 350 degrees
and i'm going to be baking my cake for about 35 to 40 minutes but the first thing we have to do
is put it in the pie tray so i've buttered my pie dish and i've also laid down some wax paper
to make sure that it doesn't stick because i hate when things stick so let's pour it in
now i'm just gonna go pop this in my oven
while your cake is baking in the oven we can start on our strawberry glaze
for this glaze all you really need is a blender and a saucepan and i'm going to start with adding
one cup of water to my saucepan and we're not having the heat on right now it is off
along with one and a half teaspoons of gelatin
and our granulated sugar
and i'm just going to stir this together and then we're going to let this sit for about five minutes
and then we'll turn on the heat so give it five minutes now we can turn our burner to a low heat
and we're just going to cook this until all of our sugar and gelatin are completely dissolved we're
gonna pour our sugar mixture very carefully into our blender oh i did it along with our
strawberries and today i have about half a pound of strawberries which i just sliced up
and we can just completely blend this together until it's smooth now i'm just going to strain my
strawberry mixture to get out any seeds the next ingredient is optional but i highly recommend it
it's adding in some rose water essence i love rose water i think it adds such
a delicious floral flavor and today i'm adding in one teaspoon of rose water essence
and then we can move over here where i have two cups of powdered sugar which i've already sifted
so it's nice and light and to that i'm going to be adding in two tablespoons of melted butter
at every last drop and i'm just going to give this a slight mix
and to our powdered sugar we can also add in our strawberry syrup
here we go and now i'm just going to mix this together until everything's combined
and then we can set this in our fridge for about 30 minutes and it will thicken up
slightly and by that point our cake should be nice and cooled and ready to dip in it
okay and here we have our beautiful cake and now all we have to do is flip it out and cut it
and actually a few more steps we're not done just yet so now i'm just gonna take my knife
and go all around the corners to make sure that it's not sticking before i flip it out
there we go
she is a beauty if i say so myself i'm going to cut off the hard edges of my cake
and then i'll continue cutting it into squares i'm just going to move this excess cake off to
the side if you want you can make some quick and easy cake pops with that or just eat it on
the side which i'm probably going to do so now we can continue cutting our cake into little squares
the size is really up to you if you want them smaller just cut them smaller if you want
a good serving size cut them a little bigger so let's chop them up
now it is time to put together our lamingtons so i have my strawberry syrup which i just took out of
the fridge as well as two cups of coconut flakes which i'm going to be dipping my lamingtons into
so you can either use your hands today i'm using two forks and i'm going to pick up my cake dip it
give it a good bath in the strawberry syrup and then put coconut all over it roll it up
you can use desiccated coconut or coconut flakes i'm using coconut
flakes today and it is a bit bigger it's really up to you on this one
all right i can't wait to have a bite so we are tasting them now
but when they look so good and the cake looks so fluffy which i love
um
wow
that was a big bite but that's so delicious it's so fruity that strawberry and also
with that lightness of the cake i absolutely love this dessert sorry i choked a little bit
and some coconut right there i absolutely love this dessert i think it's so tasty
and it's also so pretty look at it it's pink so please let me know if you try this dessert and
what you think in the comments down below also if you love desserts as much as i do
there should be a playlist right here or over here that one's up to my mom so thank you all
so much for watching and i hope to see you next week bye i'm going off to eat all these