English

Lamingtons (small cakes)

Alternative forms

• leamington, lemmington

Noun

lamington ‎(plural lamingtons)

1. (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.
   • 2000, Patrick Mullins, Chris Kynaston, The Household Production of Subsistence Goods, Patrick Nicol Troy (editor), A History of European Housing in Australia: The Urban Peasant Thesis Reassessed, page 146,

     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.

   • 2003, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, page 136,

     Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.

   • 2005, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Ice Cream!, page 118,

     Lamingtons are a traditional New Zealand tea-time treat: plain sponge dipped in a chocolate sauce and coated with coconut.

Related terms

• lamington drive

References

1. ↑ 1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, page 86.
2. ↑ Australian National University OzWords May 1999.