Peanut Butter & Salted Caramel Lamington's

Method

1. Prepare tin, preheat oven

   1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Grease a 20cm x 25cm tin and line with baking paper.

2. Combine butter, sugar, vanilla, peanut butter, and eggs

   2. Add the butter, light brown sugar, vanilla and 45g peanut butter to a large bowl and beat with an electric handheld whisk until light and fluffy. With the whisk still running, gradually add the eggs and beat until combined.

3. Add milk and flour. Pour into tin

   3. Fold in the flour and a pinch of salt then gradually stir in 100ml milk. Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and level with the back of a spoon.

4. Bake

   4. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

5. Cool

   5. Turn the sponge out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

6. Cut pieces

   6. Once cool cut into 24 pieces then make a small but deep incision in one side of each sponge.

7. Pipe caramel sauce into pieces

   7. Transfer the sauce to a piping bag then carefully pipe approximately 1tsp sauce into each hole. After you have filled each square stand them upright in a tupperware box, with incision side facing up. Transfer to the freezer for 30 minutes.

8. Melt chocolate and rest of peanut butter

   8. Add the chocolate and remaining peanut butter to a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of barely simmering water to melt then remove from the heat.

9. Combine warm milk, icing sugar and cocoa powder into mix

   9. Add the remaining milk to a saucepan, set over a low-medium heat and once warm to the touch remove from the heat and sift in the icing sugar and cocoa powder, stir until combined then stir in the melted chocolate. Cool for 10 minutes.

10. Put peanuts in tray

    10. Tip half the peanuts into a shallow tray. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.

11. Coat sponges in chocolate and peanuts

    11. Remove the chilled sponges from the freezer. One by one dip each sponge in the chocolate to coat and allow all the excess to drip off before gently rolling in the chopped peanuts. Add the remaining peanuts to the dish once the first batch have been used.

12. Set, then serve

    12. Transfer the finished lamingtons to the prepared tray and allow to set at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving.