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Đurđica’s Serbian Lamingtons – Čupavci

January 10, 2016 by The Generalissimo 8 Comments

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Đurđica's Serbian Lamingtons - Čupavci
Lamington Image Used Under Creative Commons License From kurir.rs

Citizens, a few days ago, Christmas was just celebrated in Serbia, where the Serbian Orthodox Church still celebrates the holiday using the Julian calendrical system. This is the calendar that was used before the Gregorian system used today by most other Christian countries. Two of my dearest friends are Lazar Stojković and his wife Đurđica, who recently introduced me to the fantastic Serbian dessert of Lamingtons, also known locally as Čupavci during a celebratory Serbian Christmas dinner.

Known as a Lamington in Australia, it is now very popular throughout all of the countries that used to make up Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Macedonia), amongst other European countries. A Lamington consists of squares or rectangles of sponge cake coated first in a layer of chocolate sauce, then in dried coconut.

While many think the Lamington was invented in Australia, it turns out it was in fact in New Zealand! As noted in the Guardian:

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.

Fresh analysis of a collection of 19th-century watercolours by the New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe, shows that in one portrait, “Summer Pantry” dated 1888, a partially eaten Lamington cake is clearly visible on the counter of a cottage overlooking Wellington Harbour.

The first known reference to a Lamington before this was a recipe published in 1902 in the Queensland Country Life newspaper. Historians had believed the Lamington was named after Lord Lamington who served as governor of Queensland between 1896-1901.

But experts at the University of Auckland have examined archives which show records of a visit Lamington undertook to Wellington in 1895, before beginning in his tenure as Queensland governor.

According to a New Zealand Herald news report of the visit, Lamington was “much taken with the local sweets provided him by local bakers A.R. Levin.”

Among those sweets, the article states, was a “Wellington – a double sponge dessert, dressed in shavings of coconut intended to imitate the snow capped mountains of New Zealand.”

In the former Yugoslav countries, this dessert is called “čupavac” (usually referred to in plural: “čupavci”), which means “a hairy one” (pl. “hairy ones”).

Đurđica’s Čupavci recipe truly impressed me – with her kind permission, I will now introduce her version of this recipe for your indulgent sweet tooth. 🙂 These would be a delicious ending to a Serbian meal, perhaps starting with some Ajvar as an appetizer.

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Đurđica’s Serbian Lamingtons – Čupavci


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Ingredients

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  • Cake:
  • Egg yolk, 1
  • Whole egg, 1
  • Baking powder, about one and a half to two tablespoons)
  • Sugar, 250 g (I have used less, about 100-150; exact dosage depends on how sweet one wants it to be – 250 can be too sweet)
  • Flour, 300 g (I used an all-purpose flour, as that was the only one I know here)
  • Milk, 2 dl (I bought a regular whole milk; 2 deciliter is approximately equal to one glass of water)
  • Butter, 50 g (I used an unsalted one)
  • ***
  • Glaze:
  • Chocolate, 100gr
  • Milk, 15 spoons
  • Shredded coconut, about 300gr
  • Sugar, 250 g (again, I put less)
  • Butter, 200 g

Instructions

  1. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs using a mixer for couple of minutes. What I did this time is, I left butter and all the ingredients at room temperature for a while (about 2 or 3 hours while I was making something else); butter got so soft that you could easily mix it with sugar and eggs, but it did not melt into the liquid form.
  2. I then added sugar and mixed those two with a spoon, combined them, then added eggs and then I mixed all three using a mixer. I added milk afterwards and slowly mixed because it sprayed around.
  3. When I finished it, at the end I added flour and baking powder. (I combine flour and baking powder together before putting into this liquid.) My recommendation is to avoid mixing flour into the previously mentioned ingredients using a mixer – just use a spoon or something convenient like that. For some reason, the cake turns out better that way.
  4. Put the cake into a medium- or big-sized metal pan (oiled, so you take the biscuit out easily), bake it at 180-200°C (356-392°F) for 20-30 minutes until you see golden/golden brown top.
  5. When the cake is done and gets cold enough that it can be touched, cut it into pieces.
  6. Melt all the glaze ingredients: melt butter and chocolate, add milk and then sugar, until it starts to boil. Take a spoon or fork and put a piece of cake in the glaze, soak it with chocolate (not too much, but it’s a personal preference) and then put it into the shredded coconut.
  7. My advice is to place the coconut shreds in a small bowl, put a cake in the middle, and then slowly shake the bowl so the cake moves and gets coconut; otherwise, you will have too much chocolate and coconut on your fingers. It is a messy process until you learn to handle it better after a couple of tries.
  8. I usually put the cake in a box to keep it fresh if it is not eaten on the first day, as it can easily dry out after two or three days.
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Nutrition

  • Calories: 1920.69 kcal
  • Sugar: 150.11 g
  • Sodium: 583.96 mg
  • Fat: 113.05 g
  • Saturated Fat: 82.42 g
  • Trans Fat: 2.05 g
  • Carbohydrates: 223.24 g
  • Fiber: 15.74 g
  • Protein: 20.07 g
  • Cholesterol: 222.62 mg

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  1. Nada Popeskov

    January 10, 2016 at 11:35 AM

    boze koliko ih volimo ja i kcerka …..

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  2. Milan

    January 10, 2016 at 2:34 PM

    This nice recepie came in Serbia from Australia and it is my favourite cake. Enjoy it.

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  3. Antonija Cicic

    January 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM

    obozavam]

    Reply
  4. Mila Mitrovic

    January 11, 2016 at 10:34 AM

    prepisan recept sto pre degustacija hvala i pozdrav

    Reply
  5. Vesna Veca

    January 11, 2016 at 5:28 PM

    moj omiljeni soft

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  6. Gabrijela S. Tanić

    January 11, 2016 at 8:28 PM

    mnogo sam ih volela kad sam bila mala

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  7. Velinka Simic

    January 11, 2016 at 8:49 PM

    Brzo i ukusno..

    Reply
  8. Ljubica Jakovljevic-Knezevic

    January 12, 2016 at 6:14 AM

    Најјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјјј.колачи

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