Birthday Chocolate Traybake

Traditionally, in Ireland, birthday cakes would have contained dried fruit embedded within a dense sponge or sweet bread base. Now we serve up cakes of all flavours with chocolate being a firm favourite. I find this traybake especially helpful for making

Birthday Chocolate Traybake

SERVES

20

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

35

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

40

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • For the cake

  • 8 eggs, separated

  • 380g golden caster sugar

  • 400g soft butter

  • 400g self-raising flour

  • 4 tbs cocoa powder, sieved

  • 2 tsp baking powder, sieved

  • 4 tbs milk

  • To decorate

  • 150g dark chocolate, melted

  • 300g soft butter

  • 600g icing sugar

  • 2 tsp vanilla

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