Friday, 28 November 2008

naustalgia

It's not quite homesickness, so much as nostalgia. For Australia. Something I really miss is lamingtons.


So I tried to make my own to take along to Thanksgiving dinner this evening. I didn't really have the facilities (or should that be faculties?) to bake my own sponge so I made do with angel food cake. Although it looked and tasted pretty good while I was putting them together, the chocolate coating didn't stay moist as it should have; instead it just dried like regular icing. Does the CWA have a branch in Washington state?

3 comments:

Jessica said...

Talk to Jeanne. She makes delicious lamingtons.

Moorecat said...

Lynne S (yarnivorous) has recently made lamingtons - is it something which you expats all have to do at once?

Check out her blog with recipes included, I think she put jam in the middle.

Jeanne said...

Thank you, Jessica! Yes, I do make lamingtons. But I've been told I make them like the American that I am, with chocolate that coats the cake versus sinks into the cake. I'm not sure how to achieve the latter...