NZ Food Showcase: The Lamington

 

Today’s feature NZ food item:

🔹 Chocolate and Raspberry Lamingtons 🔹

These food blog posts are all about showcasing the food that contributes to the everyday Kiwi cuisine! 
I share the food that we are familiar with, the brands that I recommend, and the ways to enjoy each food so that you can know all about the authentic Kiwi food experience too!

I wanted to start off the NZ food showcase with a bit of a fancy treat!

Although there is a long-standing debate between New Zealand and Australia about where the sponge cake goodness originated from first, research proves that it was indeed invented in New Zealand – and we are happy to claim it!

Sure to please most audiences, the Lamington is a light, delicate and effortlessly classy desert that must be accompanied by plenty of freshly whipped cream!

 

🌻Description:

Light and fluffy sponge cake squares with thin flavored sauce (chocolate or raspberry) on all surfaces, topped with desiccated coconut.

You want to eat Lamingtons within a couple of days of making/purchasing so the sponge doesn’t go stale.

 

🌻Where can it be purchased:

Your local supermarket (I like Countdown!)

 

🌻Cost (at time of purchase):

$5.00

 

🌻How it has become a food item familiar to the NZ lifestyle:

Often seen within a high tea treat experience, at a shared desert night, and at a Christmas feast!

 

🌻Different ways to eat:

A Lamington on its own is a bit plain, so it is often seen split in half with some cream down the middle, or with a bowl of whipped cream beside it.

If you want to add some jam as well that is a flavorsome addition!

 

- Christine xx

 

 

 

 

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