Make this easy Easter-themed traybake with the kids. It features a chocolate sponge covered in fudge icing then decorated with Easter sweets and treats.
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 35 mins
plus cooling
Easy
Serves 12
Ingredients
150ml sunflower oil
plus extra for the tin
165g golden caster sugar
2 eggs
150ml milk
165g self-raising flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
For the chocolate fudge icing
100g milk or dark chocolate
chopped (either a chocolate bar or Easter egg, broken up)
100g butter
softened
100g icing sugar
100g Easter treats (chocolate eggs, sweets, chocolate bar pieces)
Method
Step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Oil and line a traybake tin, about 20 x 30cm, and 5cm deep. Put the oil, sugar, eggs and milk in a bowl and whisk until well combined. Sieve over the flour, cocoa and bicarb, and stir briefly until combined. Pour the mixture into the tin, and bake for 20-25 mins until the cake is well risen and springs back when pressed. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
Step 2
Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, ensuring the bowl doesn’t touch the water, or in short blasts in the microwave until melted. Leave to cool for a few minutes.
Step 3
Beat the butter and icing sugar together until pale and fluffy, then drizzle in the chocolate and beat again until smooth and uniform in colour. Swirl the icing over the top of the cake, with a few peaks and swirls to decorate. Scatter with the Easter treats to serve.
RECIPE TIPS ICING
This makes a thin layer of icing but you can double or triple the quantities if you’d like a more generous amount.
Source: BBC Good Food/Image StockFood/Lucy Parissi
