National Lamington Day (2024)

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What is National lamington Day? ›

July 21 is National Lamington Day on the National Day Calendar. This delicious food holiday celebrates Australia's most famous culinary icon, the Aussie lamington.

This Australian cake was first invented in Queensland, with a recipe appearing in the Queensland Country Life newspaper as early as 1900. According to Queensland Government House, the lamington was created by the chef of the state's eighth governor, Lord Lamington, to feed unexpected visitors.

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Lamingtons are believed to be named after either Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, or his wife, Lady Lamington. Most sources incline to the former. The earliest known reference to the naming of the lamington, from June 1927, links the cake to Lord Lamington.

This Australian culinary icon, which consists of sponge cake dipped in chocolate and liberally sprinkled with fine desiccated coconut, is believed to have been created through an accident at work by a maid-servant to Lord Lamington, the thoroughly-British eighth Governor of Queensland.

Lamingtons are covered with coconut shavings or desiccated coconut. The cake is known as the “most Australian cake”. Lamingtons are eaten on special occasions like Australia Day. Since the dessert is popular and important to Australian culture, it was honored with a special day to celebrate it.

We stock a number of lamingtons in our range including traditional lamingtons, lamington fingers, jam lamingtons and even raspberry lamingtons. We sell and deliver lamingtons to the USA and the rest of the world.

An Australian classic! Lamingtons are deliciously buttery cakes that are coated in a silky chocolate glaze and rolled in crispy, dried coconut. They're the ultimate snack cake to take on the go!

Locals suggest lamingtons were served by a female chef or created by accident by a “nervous maid” at the opening of Ipswich Technical College. Unfortunately, the first recipe for lamingtons appeared in Queensland Country Life on 17 December 1900, predating the opening of the college in 1901.

The Lamington, Australia's famed dessert, was actually invented in New Zealand and originally named a “Wellington”, according to new research published by the University of Auckland.

What is a lamington pan? ›

A lamington pan is a shallow cake pan. Lamingtons are sponge cake cut into squares or rectangles.

Ystervarkies (South African lamingtons) are small cubes of cake that are dipped in chocolate sauce and then rolled in coconut, to resemble hedgehogs. We call them “ystervarkies”, because that is the Afrikaans word for “hedgehog”.

Lamingtons, originated in Australia, are considered the “national cake of Australia”.

Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, GCMG, GCIE, FRSGS (29 July 1860 – 16 September 1940), was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay from 1903 to 1907.