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Bake, ice, go! 12 slab cakes to make and take this weekend

These tray cakes are your low-fuss ticket to effortless entertaining. Perfect for picnics, potlucks and barbecues, they’re easy to transport and feed a crowd.

12 recipes
A portable traycake with passionfruit icing.
EASY

Helen Goh’s passionfruit picnic cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and triple coconut sheet cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Strawberry slab cake.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s strawberry slab cake

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

Helen Goh’s banana cake with cream cheese icing and miso caramel

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

Helen Goh’s berry and custard traybake

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

Chai tres leches cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
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Easy tres leche cake.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s easy tres leches cake

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

Katrina Meynink’s slab financier with pear and fennel sugar

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Raspberry, pistachio and lime traybake.

Helen Goh’s raspberry, pistachio and lime traybake

  • Helen Goh
Star-spangled sponge traybake.

Helen Goh’s star-spangled traybake cake

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

Danielle Alvarez’s banana, caramel and rum tres leches cake

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

Chocolate slab cake with milk chocolate ganache (swap Easter eggs for sprinkles)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink