Malteaser cake recipe - help a Catholic out

[Lunawuna]

Help on an Ecumenical matter please So I've been dipping into the world of traybakes - I can make a pretty respectable caramel square (nice, thick, chewy caramel!) and Mars bar crispy square, but I need a good recipe for Malteaser cake.

I tried the BBC Good Food recipe the other day and it didn't have that lovely feeling of your pupils dilating with the sweetness of it all like a good traybake normally has. Am I doomed to never get it right because of my lack of Prod blood? Help! How can getting the right ratio of digestive biscuits, butter, syrup and chocolate be so hard?!

I'm normally a good baker! Honest!

This just popped up in my YouTube feed - Helen from the Orkney News does Malteaser traybake

Look what you made me do! Very nice too.

I’m sure on this occasion we’ll be forgiven.

I’ve finally managed to get my hands on some maltesers and condensed milk, albeit the light variety. So after polishing off my raspberry and chocolate scones made from the Avoca recipe, I shall be moving on to malteser squares.

I've laid in stocks of Aero balls so I can make something from that traybakesandmore website for a birthday celebration coming up soon. Can't wait! Those fifteens were so easy and quick to make. I don't normally like desiccated coconut but it works well there.

I have warm feeling towards you all for bringing such deliciousness to my life, thank you!

No condensed milk in Asda today... So my mum gave me a tin of it she had at the back of her pantry. Dated best before March 2019. Do you think it'll be OK?

I plan to make snowballs tomorrow.

I usually go by the sniff test. I have a nose like a bloodhound and am a super taster so not much gets past me .

You’re right about the condensed milk though. I’ve been searching for it for weeks. Finally managed to get my hands on 2 of the light variety yesterday.

I made some malteser squares for the first time today.

It'll be absolutely fine. I found a tin of evaporated milk in the cupboard day with a 2016 best before/use by date. Reader, I have been adding it to my coffee for the last 24 hours and am still here to tell the tale, so I think a mere one years out of date will be fine, especially as all the added sugar in condensed milk will be acting as a preservative.

^the other day

One year

Sigh.

There were about 100 tins of evaporated milk in Asda. So it's for putting in coffee ? I had no idea what it is for and don't think I've ever seen a recipe that calls for it.

I used the March 2019 tin and it seems fine. My friend said she recently used a 2012 tin and it was also fine.

Sorry @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g. I’m just realising you said evaporated milk. It’s condensed milk that is used in 15s and snowballs.

@KayakingOnDown thanks for spotting this. You have saved a lot of soggy bottoms and disappointed diners

@Tomorrowsanewday no worries, my sister tried to use evaporated milk instead of condensed and it Did Not Work

I have now made snowballs and lemon squares. Lemon squares are a new departure for me. They are 'setting' in the fridge but I'm not convinced the icing (made of juice of one lemon, marg and icing sugar) will ever set

@KayakingOnDown the recipe I use for lemon squares the icing only has icing sugar and lemon juice.
It will probably set a little more softer but still sounds yummy.
This is my recipe
traybakesandmore.com/iced-lemon-squares/

Saw this in SuperValu. Thought of you guys. Relief supplies can be organised over the border

Definitely Bosco. I think we could class it as humanitarian help

@Tomorrowsanewday that recipe is almost identical to the one I used (my mother-in-law 's) but I used marg instead of butter.

I wonder which is best for tray bakes - marg or butter?

Before lockdown it was quite a few years since I baked. Usually apple crumbles or cheesecakes.
I tend to stick with butter.
I said to my Dsis today I’m nearly fed up looking at buns and cake.
Not the words I ever thought I’d say

I rarely baked before lockdown, apart from birthdays and Christmas. Victoria sponge, chocolate cake and cheesecake was about the height of it.

We hardly ever had sweet stuff in the house pre-lockdown.

Currently in our home we have: fairy cakes, homemade chocolate chip cookies, snowballs, and lemon squares.

Strange times.

I always tend to use butter but am aware margarine is better for certain recipes.

Mint Aero Rocky Road
#myfirsttraybake

Looks great @Boscoismyspiritanimal

Enjoy!

They look very tempting Bosco.

I heard that in a Mary Berry voice, @Tomorrowsanewday!

My cover has been blown GaspOdeTheWOnderDOg

Well we ate #myfirsttraybake and I may just have given myself diabetes.