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Christmas Traybake Cake

Easy Christmas Traybake Cake: Avoid 1 Mistake

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  • Author: Sophie Collins
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 50 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
  • Yield: 12-16 servings 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: British
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Description

Festive Christmas traybake cake decorated with colorful buttercream and sprinkles.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 400 g unsalted butter
  • 400 g light brown soft sugar
  • 325 g self raising flour
  • 75 g cocoa powder
  • 7 medium eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200 g unsalted butter room temp
  • 400 g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • green food colouring
  • red food colouring
  • white food colouring
  • sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C or 160 degrees C fan and grease and line a 9×13 inch traybake tin or 9×12 inch with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Add in the eggs, self raising flour and cocoa powder and vanilla extract and beat again until smooth.
  4. Pour into the tin and bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes, or until baked through.
  5. Once baked, leave to cool in the tin fully.
  6. Beat your unsalted butter on its own for a few minutes to loosen it and make it lovely and soft.
  7. Add in the icing sugar, and the vanilla extract, and beat again. Continue beating until the buttercream is lovely and fluffy and perfect.
  8. Split the mixture between four bowls or whatever colours or ratios you fancy and colour. I did a dark green, light green, red and white.
  9. Using various piping tips, randomly pipe onto the cake to create a beautiful pattern.
  10. Add any sprinkles on that you fancy. Enjoy.

Notes

  • If you want to make this cake vanilla, replace the cocoa powder with more self raising flour.
  • This cake lasts 4-5 days at room temp.
  • This cake can freeze for 3 plus months.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 slice
  • Calories: 450
  • Sugar: 50g
  • Sodium: 150mg
  • Fat: 25g
  • Saturated Fat: 15g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 8g
  • Trans Fat: 1g
  • Carbohydrates: 60g
  • Fiber: 2g
  • Protein: 5g
  • Cholesterol: 100mg