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Easy to make No Bake Healthy Lamingtons. Only 4 whole food ingredients and a couple minutes in the food processor. Seriously simple, but really tasty and perfect for the school lunch box.
Healthy Lamingtons
These Lamingtons are sweet, chocolaty, yummy and made with whole food ingredients. If you’re looking for a snack that can be made in literally minutes, then this might well be the kid friendly recipe for you!
Now store bought Lamingtons are usually a high sugar processed food, like most store bought foods. They’re super popular because they’re full of sugar. I’ve used dates for my recipe, they give a rich sweetness without having to add any other sugars, not even my beloved Maple syrup or honey!
These are a no bake ‘bake’ so yeah, not a bake at all(!) and they’re made in the blender and simply poured or scraped into a tin and set in the fridge.
*These contain no eggs, butter flour or oils.
More Healthy Snacks
- Pizza swirls
- Chocolate peanut butter slice
- Strawberry slice recipe
- Millionaires shortbread {without condensed milk}
- Healthy flapjacks for kids
- Sweet apple flapjacks
What ARE Lamingtons?
Now Lamingtons are a type of Australian sponge cake, often eaten on Australia day. Essentially a Lamington is a cake that been dipped in chocolate. There’s desiccated coconut involved and often a raspberry jam, cream or a little chocolate ganache and they’re traditionally cut into mini squares.
But…in the interest of Clean eating I’ve made these a little healthier, used Real whole foods and zero refined sugar. Yay!
Storing Lamingtons
I keep these Lamingtons in the fridge to keep them firm and set in their squares, and in an airtight container. If you’re putting them in lunchboxes like I do, keep them in the fridge right up until the kids walk out the door and have them wrapped in some parchment paper, they won’t stick to the parchment paper.
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What’s Good About Lamingtons?
We love love love these Lamingtons and I make them fairly often. They’re fairly small and extremely moorish.
I like to add one of these to the kids lunchboxes since…
- Most of the time packaged lunchbox snacks are loaded with sugar and preservatives, and
- It adds a whole lot of unnecessary dollars to the grocery bill when you buy these pocket-snacks for everyday lunchbox prepping.
So I don’t.
But even I don’t want my kids to feel like they are missing out. Which is ironic, because they always feel as if they are missing out.
But, I’m the Mom and I know better. :)
SO I like to add at least one homemade treat to their lunchbox every day. Oneday …. oneday they will appreciate the home baked goodies I pack them off to school with.
Lunchbox Lamingtons
Now, if you’ve seen a few of my school lunch related recipes or posts, you would have noticed that I have a Regular Lunchbox Agenda that I stick to every week. With three kids and thousands of ‘lunchbox makings’ under my belt, I have definitely found some short cuts to make this easier.
A Good lunchbox strategy starts and ends with these THREE things:
- A really good Lunchbox. I have been using these school lunch boxes for around 5 years now. The kids each have their own color so I always know who hasn’t washed theirs after school. They are brilliant!
- The Lunchbox Planner – You can get the one I use for free here and this is how you use it.
- Prepping the Snack Box – I bake or make TWO lunchbox treats once a week which I keep in a snack box in the fridge or pantry (depending what I’ve made). This Clean Eating Lamington Recipe is one of my favorite treats.
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How To Make Healthy Lamingtons
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Dried dates
- 1 Cup Shredded coconut
- ½ Cup Raw or roasted cashew nuts
- ¼ Cup Cocoa powder, a good quality one
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to the food processor bowl and process the mixture on a medium speed for around 1 minute.
- Slowly add up to a ¼ cup of water to bind it all together. I add this in two or three stages as sometimes I use a little less water if my dates are moist. Too much water will make your bars sticky
- Prep a baking pan with non stick paper and pour the processed mix into the pan. Lay another piece of baking paper on top and flatten with your hands (this just stops the mix sticking to your fingers)
- Refrigerate for 10 minutes and then cut into bars
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge
Healthy Lamingtons Recipe
Healthy Lamingtons
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Dried dates
- 1 Cup Shredded coconut
- ½ Cup Raw or roasted cashew nuts
- ¼ Cup Cocoa
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to the food processor and process of medium speed for around 1 minute.
- Slowly add up to a ¼ cup of water to bind it all together. I add this in two or three stages as sometimes I use a little less water if my dates are moist. Too much water will make your bars sticky
- Prep a baking pan with non stick paper and tip the processed mix into the pan. Lay another piece of baking paper on top and flatten with your hands (this just stops the mix sticking to your fingers)
- Refrigerate for 10 minutes and then cut into bars
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge
