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A delicious and easy chocolate sponge decorated with easter creams and butter cream
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Easy Easter Chocolate Traybake

A delicious, moist Easter Chocolate Tray Bake Cake, with creamy chocolate buttercream & decorated with Mini Eggs and other Easter treats
Course Dessert
Cuisine English
Keyword chocolate cake, Easter, Easter Cake,, Mini Egg Easter Cake
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 16
Calories 401kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Tray Bake tin Size - 8 x 12 inches
  • 1 Cooling rack

Ingredients

  • 250 g Self Rising Flour
  • 80 g Cocoa Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 300 g Golden caster sugar
  • 3 Medium Eggs Free-Range
  • 180 ml Vegetable Oil
  • 300 ml Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract Optional
  • 150 g Butter - softened Salted or unsalted
  • 300 g Icing Sugar Sieved
  • 50 g Cocoa Powder Sieved
  • 2 Tablespoon Milk
  • Mini Eggs, Mini Creme Eggs, Malteaser Bunnies

Instructions

  • CAKE
  • Pre-heat your oven to 180C /160C fan) / 350F / Gas 4
  • Grease and line your 8 x 12 inch / 32cm x 22cm tin. Please place your baking parchment over the edges. This will help after baking to lift your cake out the tin
  • In a large bowl add your dry ingredients, self-raising flour, baking powder, cocoa powder & golden caster sugar and mix well
  • Add your vegetable oil, 3 eggs, milk & vanilla extract. Using a large whisk beat until smooth, no lumps. It will be a pouring consistency
  • Bake in thee centre of your preheated oven for 40-45 minutes, until firm to the touch. Please remember all ovens vary
  • Once baked remove from the oven and leave to cool for 15 minutes in the tin
  • After 15 minutes pop a cooling rack on top of the tin and invert, removing the baking paper.Leave to cool completely
  • BUTTERCREAM
  • Cream your butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder until completely smooth, adding your milk one tablespoon at a time. You will have a lovely chocolatey flavoured smooth buttercream
  • DECORATE
  • Add your butter cream to the top of your sponge, using a palate knife to spread to the sides
  • Next go wild with your chocolate eggs to decorate anyway you like!!!

Notes

**** Nutritional information is approximate and therefore intended as a guide 
I have not added the nutritional for the decoration (chocolate eggs) 

Nutrition

Calories: 401kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 52mg | Sodium: 116mg | Potassium: 207mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 300IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 75mg | Iron: 2mg