This American-style chocolate traybake is super-easy, will be ready upfront and cuts into even parts. It's excellent for birthday events or bake gross sales

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:15 minutes
  • Cook dinner:30 minutes
• Simple
• Serves 10

• Freezable (un-iced solely)
• Vegetarian

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Elements

For the chocolate sponge

• 185ml vegetable oil, plus additional for the tin
• 250g plain flour
• 80g cocoa powder
• 2½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 325g gentle brown gentle sugar
• 250ml buttermilk
• 125ml sturdy espresso or espresso, (will be heat, however not sizzling)
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 giant eggs

For the icing

• 150g salted butter, softened
• 200g icing sugar
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp milk
• sprinkles, sweets, chocolate shavings or nuts, to embellish

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4. Oil and line the bottom and sides of a 33cm x 23cm roasting tin or cake tin with a lip of not less than 2½ cm. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarb, sugar and a great pinch of salt in a big bowl. Rub any lumps of sugar between your fingers, shaking the bowl a number of instances to carry them to the floor.

• STEP 2

  Whisk the oil, buttermilk, espresso, vanilla and eggs in a jug, then pour the moist substances into the dry. Use a spatula to stir properly, eradicating any pockets of flour. Pour the combination into the lined tin and bake for 25-30 minutes till a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clear. If any moist cake combination clings to the skewer, return the cake to the oven for five minutes, then verify once more. As soon as cooked, take away from the oven and depart to chill within the tin for not less than 20 minutes.

• STEP 3

  In the meantime, make the icing. Soften the butter in a saucepan, then take away from the warmth and stir within the icing sugar, cocoa powder and milk. The icing might be very runny however will thicken somewhat because it cools. (If the icing has set an excessive amount of earlier than the cake has cooled, reheat it barely to make it simpler to pour.)

• STEP 4

  Pour the icing over the cake and depart to set. Embellish with the sweets, sprinkles, chocolate shavings or nuts, then lower into squares and dig in.