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Moravian sugar cake with walnuts and cinnamon.

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12 terrific traybakes (starring this cinnamon doughnut cake)

Not to be confused with a brownie or slice (though we have plenty of those here and here), these large-format slab cakes are perfect for feeding a crowd and packing on your next picnic.

12 recipes
This cake is like a tray-baked cinnamon doughnut.

Moravian sugar cake with walnuts and cinnamon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh developed this recipe after a friend's take on her chocolate cake converted her to traybakes.
EASY

Raspberry, pistachio and lime traybake with cream cheese icing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
A portable traycake with passionfruit icing.
EASY

Helen Goh's passionfruit picnic cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Star-spangled sponge traybake.

Star-spangled cake (aka tray-baked Victoria sponge)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Danielle Alvarez's milk-soaked cake decorated with soft Swiss meringue and dulce de leche.

Banana, caramel and rum tres leches cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
A simple chocolate cake slab dressed-up with ganache and Easter eggs.
EASY

Old-school slab cake with milk chocolate ganache

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Katrina Meynink swaps dainty individual financier fingers for a slab.

Slab financier with pear and slightly fancy fennel sugar

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Lemonade scone slab with strawberry jam, cream and fresh strawberries.
EASY

Scone slab with chunky strawberry jam and cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
A slab of banana cake with cream cheese icing and swirls of optional miso caramel.

Banana cake with cream cheese icing and miso caramel

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chai-spiced three-milk cake.

Chai tres leches cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Is it a cake? Is it a slice? Lemon 'brownies' with frozen berries.
EASY

Lemon 'brownies' with berries

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
A fluffy, buttery pillow slathered with lemon curd and ricotta and scattered with berries.

Lemon, ricotta and blueberry brioche slab

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink