Fruity traybake

A moist sponge made from banana, apple, carrots and mango, topped with a fruity cream cheese frosting

  • Prep:20 mins
    Cook:40 mins
    plus cooling
  • Easy

Nutrition per serving

  • kcal 339
  • fat 16g
  • saturates 4g
  • carbs 45g
  • sugars 33g
  • fibre 2g
  • protein 3g
  • salt 0.4g

Ingredients

  • 175ml vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing
  • 175g dark muscovado sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 small ripe banana, mashed
  • 140g grated eating apples
  • 100g grated carrots
  • 1 small mango, peeled and cut into small dice
  • zest 1 lemon
  • 250g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 225g icing sugar, sieved
  • 75g passion fruit or lemon curd
  • 75g cream cheese

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 22cm square tin with baking parchment. Whisk the oil and sugar in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the banana. Stir through the apples, carrots, mango and lemon zest. Combine the flour, bicarb and mixed spice in another bowl, then fold into the fruit mixture.

  2. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 40 mins, until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins before turning out onto a wire rack.

  3. To make the icing, beat together the icing sugar, passion fruit or lemon curd and the cream cheese. Spread over the top of the cake and cut into square pieces to serve.

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