To make the cake , you need:

½ cup of butter
3 eggs
a pinch of salt
3/4 of a cup of sugar
1 ½ cups of flour
2 teaspoons of beaking poweder
½ cuo of milk

To make the icing, you need:

2 cups of icing sugar
1 big taplespoon of butten
1/3 of a cup of cocoa
1 teaspoon of vanilla
3 cups of coconut flakes
4 tablespoon of boiling hot wather
½ cup of milk

To make the cace:

1. Beat the butter and sugar together for about 8 minutes.
2. Mix in the eggs, vanilla , milk, baking powder and flour.
3. Pour the mixture into a greased square baking tray
Bake in the oven (180 C) for 30 minutes.
4. Let the cake cool for 30 minutes and cut in into squares.

To make the icing:

1. Mix all of the ingredients for thr icing, except the coconut, in a bowl.
2. Add boiling water and stir to make a thin paste.
3. Spread the paste on the square pieces.
4. Roll the pieces in the coconut flakes.
5. Leave the lamingtons in the fridge for at least a couple of hours.