Chocolate traybake

Traybake recipe for 10 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has vegetable oil, plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, light brown soft sugar, buttermilk, coffee, vanilla extract, large eggs, salted butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder, milk and sprinkles.

Chocolate traybake

Chocolate traybake

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Traybake
Servings

10

servings
Prep time

15 mins

Ingredients

  • Vegetable Oil: 185ml vegetable oil, plus extra for the tin
  • Milk: 2 tbsp milk
  • Plain Flour: 250g plain flour
  • Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • Baking Powder: 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Buttermilk: 250ml buttermilk
  • Cocoa Powder: 80g cocoa powder
  • Icing Sugar: 200g icing sugar
  • Coffee: 125ml strong coffee or espresso, (can be warm, but not hot)
  • Salted Butter: 150g salted butter, softened
  • Light Brown Soft Sugar: 325g light brown soft sugar
  • Large Eggs: 2 large eggs
  • Sprinkles: sprinkles, sweets, chocolate shavings or nuts, to decorate

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Oil and line the base and sides of a 33cm x 23cm roasting tin or cake tin with a lip of at least 2 1/2 cm. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarb, sugar and a good pinch of salt in a large bowl. Rub any lumps of sugar between your fingers, shaking the bowl a few times to bring them to the surface.
  2. Whisk the oil, buttermilk, coffee, vanilla and eggs in a jug, then pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Use a spatula to stir well, removing any pockets of flour. Pour the mixture into the lined tin and bake for 25-30 mins until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. If any wet cake mixture clings to the skewer, return the cake to the oven for 5 mins, then check again. Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for at least 20 mins.
  3. Meanwhile, make the icing. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then remove from the heat and stir in the icing sugar, cocoa powder and milk. The icing will be very runny but will thicken a little as it cools. (If the icing has set too much before the cake has cooled, reheat it slightly to make it easier to pour.)
  4. Pour the icing over the cake and leave to set. Decorate with the sweets, sprinkles, chocolate shavings or nuts, then cut into squares and dig in.