Important question for NI people - what's the story with tray bakes?

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It seems to pop up ever so often in discussion here, and then posters from Northern Ireland all chime in with their favourites. I still remember the delicious Lumpy-something I had in a little cafe in Antrim.

Is it a Northern thing, or am I way out? And can we have some recipes?

Omg! Lemon fridge cake! My aunt Kathleen used to make this drools something like lemon digestives and coconut maybe condensed milk? Lumpy bumpy cake is stirring my memory too.....

Are tray bakes not just what we call no bake slices or fridge cakes?
Stuff like rocky road and white Christmas and Malteaser slice and all that malarkey?

Could u be thinking about 'fifteens' plan they are sort of like rocky roads.

I went on the Norn Iron thread.
The recipe for Fifteens was given, sadly no measurements given. I put the whole sodding tin of condensed milk into the mixture. Obviously I had to bin the whole lot!!!!

The tins of condensed milk used to be smaller so one tin did 15 of everything - the bigger tins mean they are more like 24s! Many disasters working that one out

Yes 15's are 15 marshmallows chopped up, 15 digestive biscuits crushed and 15 glazed cherries chopped. You'll also need a tin of condensed milk and some coconut.

Mix marshmallow digestives and cherris together and pour in enough condensed milk to make it stick and stir. Too much condensed milk will turn it into a mess.

Roll it into a log shape and then roll on the coconut. Pop in tge fridge for a while and slice. Yum

I also loved cornflake cake. Make it in a rectangular tray and slice into square.

Similar to this
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2951685/lazy-cornflake-shortcakes-

Fifteens sound lovely, must try that! Yes, it was Lumpy-bumpy - we sniggered at the name, but shut up after the first bite..

These Fifteens sound right up my street. Could some kindly NI resident whip a a batch up and send them to me? Thinking of it as strengthening community relations between North and South. It definitely has nothing to do with me being greedy. Nope.

Tray bakes = Protestant buns
At least according to my aunt.

I live in England and take my little one to a group at a Methodist church, she got very excited about the prospect of me getting traybakes and was disappointed when I told her it was usually just a biscuit!

Applegreen ( service/ petrol station) sell 15's. They were with the Rocky Roads and Millionaire Shortbreads.
I was delira and excira.
Of course I bought a packet but I won't repurchase - too sweet.

Hollyisalovelyname are you my DM? Delira and excira made me smile. Thanks for that.

puppydogmummy, I will be making a batch of those next week for a bake sale we call them lemon squares though. It'll be my first time making them as my mum is Tray Bake Queen and I usually just ask her to do stuff for me for bake sales but she's on holiday so Im flying solo. People have been known to fight over the last one at previous bake sales so the pressure is on

Oh I live tray bakes but have no lemon ones. Would love a recipe

I'll share when I get my mum's recipe from her.

Feeling very homesick for Chinese Chew or a Wonderbite...

In Ireland a lot of people would recognise the protestant traybake.

Would love some recipes too.

Canyou I didn't know tray bakes were a Protestant thing in Ireland .
Are you up North?

I had a deprived childhood.
For some reason my mother made Fourteens not Fifteens

Only in Ireland would someone's choice of baked goods be an indicator of religion!

My (Catholic) mother makes the most ah-may-zing chocolate tiffin thing in a tray. The best I've ever tasted.

I used to have tray bake for dinner. It was filled with mince and veg and served with mash and gravy.

Did not know it was a sweet dish!

Mitty any chance you'd share the recipe please ?

My mum used do this tray bake that involved two layers of pastry, in between were raisins and some thing else in a really sickly sweet caramel sauce (made wih brown sugar cream and other stuff) can't remember what it was called but it went down a treat at the stations

You can't beat mars bar squares or millionaire shortbread IMHO

I always get the kids making fifteens as part of the St Patrick's day activities at the children's centre in england I work at. It combines their two favourite things: messy play & cooking. Ah have fond memories of cornflake cake & custard for pudding at primary school. Have followed link, might use it with kids next paddy's day for a change.

On the strength of this thread, I've just tried a 15 in Enniskillen. Fantastic!