Mincemeat Cake Traybake

mincemeat cake with sprinkles on top of the white icing. Sprinkles are all around the bottom of the cake

Mincemeat Cake Traybake is super easy and full of Christmas flavours. It's moist, fruity and topped with a simple icing that's perfect to Christmas sprinkle the shizzle out of. Ideal to feed a crowd or bake for a cake sale.

Course cake

Cuisine English

Servings people

Calories 370kcal

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Ingredients

400 grams mincemeat
300 grams self raising flour
175 grams butter melted
175 grams sugar
3 large eggs

Instructions

Place the 3 eggs and 175 grams sugar in a mixing bowl.
Whisk until the mixture pales . I'm talking about 4 minutes with an electric whisk.
Dollop in the mincemeat and gently mix through with a wooden spoon.
Add in the 300 grams flour. Mix through thoroughly again.
Pour in 175 grams melted butter and mix until you can't see it any more in the mixture.
Tip into your lined cake tin and level off with a spatula or large spoon.
Bake for 40 minutes at 170C/325F/Gas Mark 3 or until a cocktail stick comes out clean from the middle when inserted.
Leave to cool in the tin. Mix your icing sugar and water together with a little whisk or similar. The consistency needs to be thick in order to not run off the edges of the cake.
Spoon over the cake and decorate almost immediately with sprinkles so that they stick to the icing.

Notes

Test if your cake batter will easily drop off your spoon if it doesn't then add a splash of milk and mix it in until it does.
The same is true with any cake but try not to overbake if possible to keep the cake moist.
Change the icing to suit your tastes. White chocolate or a cream cheese icing would work well.
Use a small independent oven thermometer to keep a check on your real oven temperature.

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