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Chocolate slice with golden brown chocolate and icing sugar
A light and airy chocolate sponge slice, perfect for sharing

Classic chocolate traybake

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Vegetarian & Vegan Cakes and Desserts
This cake is a distant cousin of the brownie: less dense and sticky, more like a soft and airy sponge, but the intensity of the chocolate remains. An ideal base recipe that you can spruce up anytime with a handful of walnuts or dried fruit.
🕒 Prep Time 20 mins
🍳 Cook Time 30 mins
⌛ Total Time 50 mins
🍽️ Servings 12 servings
🔥 Calories 290 kcal
🌍 Cuisine International

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Baking tray (approx. 20x30 cm)
  • Mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Bowl for melting over simmering water

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Milk
⚠️ Eggs

Instructions

1 ✓

Melt the chocolate over simmering water (bain-marie) and let it cool until lukewarm.

Tip: If you pour chocolate that is too hot into the butter-egg base, the eggs may curdle (turn into scrambled eggs) and the butter may melt [Thermal shock].
2 ✓

Cream the soft butter with the sugars until fluffy, then add the eggs one by one. Finally, drizzle in the melted chocolate.

Tip: Ingredients should be at the same temperature so the emulsion doesn't break (the mixture doesn't curdle).
3 ✓

Mix the flour, baking powder, cocoa, and salt. Add to the mixture alternately with the milk.

Tip: Cocoa powder tends to clump, so it's worth sieving it together with the flour.
4 ✓

Smooth into the baking tray and bake at 180°C for approx. 25-30 minutes.

Tip: Due to the dark colour of the cocoa and chocolate, it's hard to see if it's burning, so rely on the smell and the skewer test.

Recipe FAQ

Why is the cake dry?
You baked it too long. This is especially true for chocolate cakes: less is sometimes more. Take it out when the toothpick is no longer runny but still has moist crumbs.

Ingredients

  • 200 g Flour
  • 150 g Sugar
  • 150 g Butter (room temperature)
  • 200 g Dark chocolate (good quality)
  • 3 pc Eggs (room temperature)
  • 100 ml Milk
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 1 packet Vanilla sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 tbsp Icing sugar
  • 1 tbsp Oil (for greasing the tray)