M&S brings Australia’s national treat the lamington to UK high street | Marks & Spencer

For more than a century, it has been a fixture of oven sales and cafes in Australia. Now Lamington is starting at the British Hight Street while Marks & Spencer launches its version.

The chain will stock two types: “Classic” chocolate and coconut Lamington and a caramelized biscuit version that was viral on social media after it was started by Lamington and Woolworths in Australia last month. Both will be cooked in the UK and will be sold in two packages for £ 4.

Lamington is traditionally dipped in chocolate icing and rolled in a dried coconut. It is considered a national treatment in Australia and New Zealand and is usually seen in a raspberry version.

M & S’s classic purchase, chocolate sauce and coconut stamps covered with jam and finished with jam and buttercream, buttermilk enriched chocolate sponge uses. The caramelized biscuit version changes coconuts for biscuit crumbs and filled with butter and salty caramel sauce.

Alice Birch, a product developer for the oven refreshments in M&S Food, said: “Lamingtons is definitely the first one below and being the first person to bring our version of this beloved Aussie classic to the UK High Street.

The cake is thought to have emerged in Queensland in the 1890s, which is said to use sponge, chocolate and coconut to feed unexpected guests of the chief of Governor Lord Lamington.

M&S Lamingtons is available on Wednesday and is available in OCADO.