Christmas Traybake Cake!

• servings: 15 servings
• active time: 25 minutes
• total time: 4 hours 10 minutes

Ingredients

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

Directions

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!

Nutrition

• Calories: 444 kcal
• Total Fat: 25 g
• Saturated Fat: 15 g
• Cholesterol: 107 mg
• Sodium: 30 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 48 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1 g
• Total Sugars: 24 g
• Protein: 6 g