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Which is the tastiest Protestant traybake?

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FiddleFaddleDingDong · 08/03/2019 17:35

NI Protestants are famed for their tray bakes but which is the best traybake of all?

I’m thinking something crunchy and chocolatey, a tiffin like thing. But are there unchocolatey traybakes that I just haven’t been exposed to? Are they keeping all the best recipes to themselves, strictly to be eaten behind closed doors?

And does it get a bit competitive? Does Annie cast aspersions on Doris’ traybaking abilities?

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TeacupDrama · 08/03/2019 19:09

paradise slices,
pastry, jam. frangipane with cherries raisins and cubes of marzipan top sprinkled with flaked almonds
mocha squares not common but like a chocolate flapjack with coffee icing
In scotland I know our church cafe has people that come just for the cakes and tray bakes where else can you get decent filter coffee with free refills and a traybake and change from £2?
the retired catholic priest used to come for the cakes and a chat
6" scotch pancakes with butter and jam just 50p

Firstbornunicorn · 08/03/2019 19:07

@FlaviaAlbia to be fair, I only learned how to make a good Malteaser square after baptism by full immersion 😜

palomapear · 08/03/2019 19:06

I know tray bakes but don't know about the religious ones.
It's a great thread but not enough recipes!!

Please post recipes!

SeenYourArse · 08/03/2019 19:04

How did i not know Protestant tray bakes were even a thing when my granny is an NI P and so is my dad?!!

banivani · 08/03/2019 19:04

Why aren’t there more recipe links in this thread??? Sectarianism at its worst! (Have given up cakes for Lent 😭)

FlaviaAlbia · 08/03/2019 19:03

SlinkyDinkyDoo here's some www.fahanchurch.org/recepies.htm

But mostly they're on a badly printed booklet sold to make money and stored in your mum or granny's cookbook...

MutantDisco · 08/03/2019 19:02

milky pre-mixed tea

ShockShockShock

No wonder my Nan muttered under her breath about her low church contemporaries

Wearywithteens · 08/03/2019 19:02

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3out · 08/03/2019 19:02

So funny ElevenohFive, I was just about to comment about the whole tray’bake’ fallacy! 😂

Elllicam · 08/03/2019 19:02

@rosablue my mum makes that one at Christmas, it’s lovely. Does your mum decorate it with half cherries and walnuts too?

SurgeHopper · 08/03/2019 19:01

At the risk of being a bit, well, Presbyterian about the whole thing,

Shock

You'll be talking about Baptists next

SurgeHopper · 08/03/2019 19:00

Atheists have fuck all. Misery, intellectual superiority and fuck all.

FlaviaAlbia · 08/03/2019 19:00

Don't bet on it Firstbornunicorn, I married in and my baking list substantially increased Wink

stellarparallax · 08/03/2019 19:00

what do atheists have?!

Weightwatchers

SlinkyDinkyDoo · 08/03/2019 18:59

There is a distinct lack of recipes on this thread! Care to share?

longwayoff · 08/03/2019 18:59

Thank you Mrs jayy, not Lammingtons but Tottenham Cake. It's quite plain and, er, worthy.

ElevenOhFive · 08/03/2019 18:59

At the risk of being a bit, well, Presbyterian about the whole thing, I think we need to be clear that the type of traybakes which we are talking about here are the ones which don’t actually involve baking - they are the melted butter and chocolate/crushed biscuits/desiccated coconut in varying amounts variety. No cakes in trays.

3out is right - the best traybake recipes are to be found in books produced by the likes of the local Presbyterian Women’s Association or WI in the 1980s. I have even come across a recipe using cold mashed potato in a traybake.

Can I also mention the dark side of the Presbyterian church hall funeral spread... pots of milky pre-mixed tea 😱🤢

Firstbornunicorn · 08/03/2019 18:58

@Chocolatepeanuts not in West Belfast!

SoupDragon · 08/03/2019 18:56

I also thought it was an autocorrect :) I'm disappointed.

Not least because I am an atheist and thus, apparently, I have nothing. Sad

mazylou · 08/03/2019 18:55

Proper Protestant shortbread, buttery, melts on your tongue. Says the CofI rector’s daughter.

Bookworm4 · 08/03/2019 18:54

Not sure of it's religious persuasion but I do a mean tray of blondies; the DD doesn't need anyone to die to ask me to make it.
N.B
I had Irish grandparents and the staunch Wee Free from the Islands side so this thread really appeals 😂😂

Redcrayons · 08/03/2019 18:53

Also opening the thread assuming Protestant was epic autocorrect fail.

Now want to make a traybake.

FlaviaAlbia · 08/03/2019 18:53

rosablue that sounds amazing!

StandardLampski · 08/03/2019 18:51

FifteensGrin

secretsciurusvulgaris · 08/03/2019 18:49

Caramel square always - millionaires shortbread is just too hard. Wouldn’t say no to a German biscuit or a fresh cream finger either - has to have white icing and coconut though! I am always disappointed by the bakeries in England - no chance of a cherry and walnut scone here either.

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