Lamington Banana Ice Cream Slab - Real Recipes from Mums

This Lamington Banana Ice Cream Slab is incredible! Such a cool and Summery dessert!

The humble sponge coated in chocolate icing and rolled in coconut has come a long way hasn’t it? Especially when you see it incorporated into this dessert.

And what could be more Australian than lamington, banana and ice cream all smooshed together to make a massive ice cream slab?

If you’ve never been sure about the history of the this little Aussie gem, here’s a quick recap from “Everything you need to know about lamingtons“:

“… first invented in Queensland, with a recipe appearing in the Queensland Country Life newspaper as early as 1900. According to Queensland Government House, the lamington was created by the chef of the state’s eighth governor, Lord Lamington, to feed unexpected visitors.

Since 2006 it’s even been honoured with its own National Lamington Day, which is 21 July”.

If you’re a lamington fan, here are a few more recipes you might like to try:

This Lamington Ice Cream Slab proudly created and shared with us by Australian Bananas.

Ingredients (serves 10)

4 Cavendish Bananas
1 litre Vanilla Ice Cream
2 cups Thick Vanilla Custard
6 Jam Filled Lamingtons
4 Cavendish or Sugar Bananas, sliced to serve

Method

Peel bananas, place in a snap lock bag and freeze 4 hours or overnight if time permits. Line a 5cm deep, 18xmx30cm (base) slab pan with baking paper.
Spoon ice cream into a large bowl, stand at room temperature 10 -20 minutes to soften. Roughly chop the banana into 4cm pieces. Place the frozen bananas into a food processor. Process until finely chopped. Add the custard. Process until smooth. Add to soften ice cream, mix until well combined.
Roughly chop lamingtons. Stir into the banana ice cream mixture. Spoon into prepared pan. Smooth over top. Press a sheet baking paper onto the surface and freeze, overnight. 
To serve, lift ice cream onto a serving board or platter. Top with sliced banana. Sprinkle with coconut and grated chocolate. Cut into pieces. Serve.

Notes

Alternate serving suggestion serve scoops in ice cream cones or slice into pieces and serve between ice cream wafers.

96 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 16 Oct 2024
    9:32 pm
I never knew the lamington was a Queensland creation. This recipe sure does turn it into a banana bender lamington! Another impressive but easy and doable dessert recipe. It looks like it has a whole bunch of steps and you can take all the praise. Perfect for a summer bbq treat.

- - Mumof4 said
  - 27 Jun 2024
    6:31 pm
Yum! An interesting flavour combination I would have never thought of.

- - ella12 said
  - 25 Dec 2023
    10:30 pm
This is a whole lot of flavour wrapped up together.

- - mom91796 said
  - 05 Dec 2023
    10:10 am
Looks yummy, I’ll give it a try and hope it looks as good when I make it.

- - Ellen said
  - 05 Dec 2023
    5:19 am
Hmm, I’m afraid it doesn’t appeal to me

- - kay1987 said
  - 02 Dec 2023
    6:14 am
Oh sign me up for this one. This looks and sounds so good!!!

- - mom465794 said
  - 28 Nov 2023
    12:36 pm
This looks amazing, will be saving the recipe to try in the holidays!

- - mom443421 said
  - 27 Nov 2023
    9:28 am
Hmm…I’m not sure about this one – would love to hear if anyone has made it and what they think??

- - rovermum said
  - 20 Nov 2023
    10:10 am
Hmmm, I just don’t know about the lamington!!

- - mom103778 said
  - 20 Nov 2023
    9:49 am
This Lamington Banana Ice Cream Slab looks devine.

- - Motherhoodmama said
  - 18 Nov 2023
    11:20 pm
Would be a massive hit with the kids

- - ChiWren said
  - 18 Nov 2023
    12:16 am
Looks really interesting and easy. I’d make it for other people, but imo bananas are the most unappealing fruit.

- - kikidaz12 said
  - 17 Nov 2023
    10:01 pm
Looks interesting – has anyone tried it yet? Does the 20 minutes the ice cream is sitting at room temperature turn it into a puddle?

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 16 Nov 2023
    12:49 am
My kids were asking about dessert tonight and I was out of ideas. I’d forgotten about this recipe.

- - mom101628 said
  - 15 Nov 2023
    9:18 pm
This sounds just wonderful – must try it. Thanks so much for your recipe.

- - curlytops said
  - 13 Nov 2023
    8:56 am
Interesting mixing cake in the ice cream

- - BellaB said
  - 12 Nov 2023
    7:10 pm
My kids would love this, I think.

- - GemmaLaurenMary said
  - 11 Nov 2023
    6:45 pm
This actually looks so delicious. Would be a great treat for Christmas day. Something different to the traditional variety of sweets.

- - mom485182 said
  - 23 Oct 2023
    2:08 pm
This sounds interesting. I love anything banana flavoured. Will save to make this summer. Thanks for sharing!

- - meedee said
  - 16 Jul 2023
    12:47 pm
Im not into bananas …..Wonder how this would go with other fruits.