Favourite 'traybake' please

[KeepCalm]

I believe am a creature of habit as I always choose a millionaire shortbread (caramel slice)

DD says I should be more adventurous.

Please note this is not a daily occurrence lol

I'd like to try making something new.

[lifelongfrugaleer]

Mary berry lemon drizzle

[fruitpastille]

Delia Smith's damp gingerbread. Especially in autumn.

[SoftSheen]

Blackberry and coconut traybake is nice, especially at this time of year when you can gather your own blackberries.

[daisydalrymple]

Nigella's chocolate brownies.
Or even a simple rocky road not even any baking involved!

[MrsHathaway]

My go-to tray bakes are:

Ginger cake (dark and sticky)
Flapjack *
Firework cake (plain sponge, dark buttercream, hundreds and thousands)
Chocolate brownie

Recipes available if wanted.

• Most recently, DC2 (6) asked for chocolate chips in it as well as sultanas. Didn't realise they'd melt and form part of the caramel. DH found it completely addictive so that recipe is now called Crackjack. Otherwise I vamp it up with one or more of sultanas, dried apricots, flaked almonds, etc.
  
  People are keen on Rocky Road. Not baking exactly but fairly pleasing.
  
  Proper rice crispie cake makes a good tray bake (made with toffee and marshmallow, and drizzled with chocolate and sprinkles once set).

[PurpleDaisies]

Rocky road is really popular and dead easy. My favourite one is rolo and white chocolate but use whatever sweets/chocolate bars toy fancy.

[hippadoppaloppagorillapig]

My tiffin is legendary. And it's no-bake.

[implantsandaDyson]

Fifteens - no baking involved

[KeepCalm]

It's not 'baking' I want but the melt/mix and refrigerate in a tray job!

I do stuff voluntarily for a local community cafe so DD says I should change it all up slightly.

Sponge based traybakes not as good as they don't keep as long although I make them brownies etc too

Crackjack sounds great!

[packofshunts]

MrsHathaway
Can I have your flapjack recipe please?

[implantsandaDyson]

Fifteens = 15 digestives, 15 marshmallows, 15 cherries. Squish the biscuits, chop marshmallows and cherries - mix it in a bowl with condensed milk. Roll it into a sausage shape. Roll in desecrated desiccated coconut, wrap it in cling film, stick in fridge.

I think Nigella does a recipe somewhere but that's how I've always made them. We also freeze them.

[Oddsocksforeveryone]

@mrshathaway please may I learn some of your recipe's?
By Oct I'll be breastfeeding a newborn and doing packed lunches for DH and 3dc so will be baking for puddings/snacks.

I've never made millionaires shortbread for fear of ruining the caramel!

Toffee and marshmallow crispies are great for making in huge quantities and taste divine. I accidentally tripled my ingredients once when tired and it was like the magic porridge pot I had crispies setting in tins and trays everywhere it was amazing.

[MrsHathaway]

Standard flapjack is 2:3:4:6 syrup:butter:sugar:oats (my tray bake uses 2oz as Base unit so 4oz, 6oz, 8oz, 12oz). Melt together the syrup and butter, then mix into the sugar and oats. Press into tray lined with good baking parchment or silicon paper, and bake at 180 until caramel is bubbling and dark. Leave to cool slightly but cut before it sets.

It's fairly flexible for additions so long as they end up well coated in the sugar/butter/syrup mix. The Crackjack version had 2oz ish of sultanas and 4oz ish (? a bag, you know) of chocolate chips folded in.

Don't make it until I've checked I've got the sugar and butter ratio the right way round though (am MNing in bed and am about 90% sure).

Brownie is Hummingbird Classic with quantities doubled for my tray. Substitute out the 130g flour for about 175g cornflour to make it gluten free (but check other ingredients particularly chocolate very carefully).

Firework cake is normal 2:2:2:1 flour:butter:sugar:egg sponge with (300g icing sugar:100g butter:40g cocoa:40ml milk) chocolate buttercream with additional food colouring and a fuckton of sprinkles. Children hoover it.

Ginger cake is David Herbert at the bottom of this page. I don't bother with the additional ginger syrup step: it's a very moist cake already.

Rice crispie cake is two bags of toffees melted with one bag of normal marshmallows and a knob of butter, then fold in enough rice crispies so they're all only just covered. Lined tray, or use lightly greased gloves to shape into dinosaur/castle/boat or into single cake cases. Decorate with sprinkles/chocolate chips quickly before it sets.

[MrsHathaway]

... sugar : oats ...

[MrsHathaway]

And I've fucked up the caramel too many times to be confident with millionaire's shortbread. Sometimes gloopy, sometimes hard cracking toffee even with a sugar thermometer. Baffling, particularly as I can make tablet so it's not like I don't understand sugar!

[IDismyname]

Both Mary Berry ones - Lemon Drizzle, and chocolate brownies. Except I add twice the amount of chocolate in the form of a smashed up dark chocolate bar.

Am liking the look of the ginger one. Do you make it in a loaf tin, or double it for a traybake?

[CherriesInTheSnow]

Raspberry and Almond bakes! So yummy

And chocolate tiffin but I've never made them myself :O

[SallyOMalley]

I second (third?!) Mary Berry's lemon drizzle cake. Delicious.

[SallyOMalley]

This Ginger and Treacle cake is very good too.

[LadyPeterWimsey]

Strawberry Oatmeal Bars, but using a food processor to make the crumble bit like this blogger does.

Not sponge so they keep for ages, very cheap to make, and super quick.

They are not much to look at but taste a bit jam tart, a bit fruit crumble. I get asked for the recipe every time I make them.

[Linnet]

BBC good food peach Melba squares, my friend makes them they're great. She also makes the Mary berry ginger traybake and chocolate tray bake.

[HurtyTeeth]

MrsHathaway - what toffees do you use for the crispies?

[cantthinkofabloodyname]

I did this as a traybake before. It was amazing. www.jensjustdesserts.co.uk/2013/05/27/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-choc-chip-cookie-brownie-amazingness/

[twoheaped]

Nanaimo bars.

[BackforGood]

Mmmmm
Thanks for starting this thread. I need to collect some new, foolproof recipes for a cake sale I'm organising soon. With only the one oven and not a lot of time, I like the idea of some of these non-cook ones (but am also storing the baking ones)
thanks everyone.