Easter mini egg traybake

Name: Easter mini egg traybake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 220 g Essential Unsalted Butter, melted, plus extra for greasing; 100 g hazelnuts; 80 g Cadbury Mini Eggs; 200 g golden caster sugar; 2 British Blacktail Medium Free Range Eggs; 200 g Essential Plain Flour; 1 tsp salt; 100 g dried cranberries

Great fun to make with young ones over Easter, this bright and beautiful cake features dried cranberries, hazelnuts and mini eggs – everyone’s favourite seasonal treat.

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Vegetarian

Makes16
CourseCake
Prepare15 mins
Cook35 mins
Total time50 mins
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220g Essential Unsalted Butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
100g hazelnuts
2 x 80g Cadbury Mini Eggs
200g golden caster sugar
2 British Blacktail Medium Free Range Eggs
200g Essential Plain Flour
1 tsp salt
100g dried cranberries

Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4, then grease and line a 23cm square baking tin with baking parchment. Roast the hazelnuts for 8-10 minutes until golden. Allow them to cool then very roughly chop. Meanwhile, leave ⅓ of the mini eggs whole for the topping and roughly chop the rest (or put in a food bag and bash with a rolling pin to roughly crush).
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the butter and sugar. Whisk in the eggs one at a time, then whisk in the flour and salt until combined. Stir through the nuts, cranberries and chopped (or crushed) mini eggs.
Pour the mixture into the tin and level out, then scatter over the reserved mini eggs. Bake for 25 minutes until golden at the edges. Allow the cake to cool to room temperature in the tin, then cut into 16 squares. For a chewier texture, try it chilled – the traybake will keep in the fridge for up to five days.