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Christmas Traybake Cake!
A delicious and moreish chocolate cake, topped with beautiful American buttercream frosting, in all the different festive patterns!
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Category:
Cake
Type:
Cake
Keyword:
Christmas
Prep Time:
25
minutes
minutes
Cook Time:
45
minutes
minutes
Cooling/Decorating Time:
3
hours
hours
Total Time:
4
hours
hours
10
minutes
minutes
Servings:
15
Slices
Author:
Jane's Patisserie
Ingredients
The Cake
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
Decoration
200
g
unsalted butter
(room temp)
400
g
icing sugar
1
tsp
vanilla extract
green food colouring
red food colouring
white food colouring
sprinkles
Grams
-
Ounces
Instructions
For the Cake
Preheat your oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan and grease and line a 9x13" traybake tin (or 9x12" if that's what you have!) with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add in the eggs, self raising flour and cocoa powder and vanilla extract and beat again until smooth.
Pour into the tin and bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes, or until baked through.
Once baked, leave to cool in the tin fully.
For the Decoration
Beat your unsalted butter on it's own for a few minutes to loosen it and make it lovely and soft!
Add in the icing sugar, and the vanilla extract, and beat again! Continue beating until the buttercream is lovely and fluffy and perfect!
Split the mixture between four bowls (or whatever colours/ratios you fancy!) and colour. I did a dark green, light green, red and white.
Using various piping tips, randomly pipe onto the cake to create a beautiful pattern!
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+ months.
I recommend using
this 9x13" traybake tin
, or
this 9x12" traybake tin
!
I used this
green food colouring
I used this
red food colouring
I used this
white food colouring
Piping tips I used:
Medium 1M open star piping tip
Medium 2D closed star piping tip
Medium leaf tip
Medium petal piping tip
Cactus piping tip
Jumbo open star piping tip
Jumbo french piping tip
Snowflake piping tip
Rose piping tip