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Easter mini eggs traybake

Easter mini egg traybake

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
  • Pluscooling

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Ingredients

  • 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

Method

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Cook’s tip

Not nuts on hazelnuts? Pecans work just as well. You could also switch the cranberries for sour cherries.

Nutritional

Typical values per item when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

1,132kJ/ 271kcals

Fat

16g

Saturated Fat

8.1g

Carbohydrates

27g

Sugars

17g

Fibre

1.3g

Protein

3.4g

Salt

0.4g

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