Traybake musings.

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If I offered you a traybake, or I asked you to make one, what would you choose? Inspired by a lovely thread I clicked on in recipes and ALL answers are savoury. Which is absolutely wonderful and ground breaking for me in equal terms.

For full disclosure
I am Scottish.

if you asked me to make you a tray bake it would be something like
marsbars melted with Krispies
digestives crushed with condensed milk, cherries and rolled in coconut
crushed digestives mixed with melted coco and butter topped with peppermint icing.
Tiffen

I have never heard of a savoury use of the word traybake. So while gathering the lovely ideas from those thought I would see if it was just me😂

Malteaser cake

fruit squares

pineapple delights.

Sweet but I am also scottish - never heard of a savoury tray bake!

TIFFIN!!

No I need more of a cake traybake please…like an almond and coconut sponge type thing

A protestant tray bake?

Where I live, a tray bake is often referring to a dinner where you put everything in at once, eg marinated thighs lying on top of vegetables. What you call tray bakes, we call slices.

Thank you. I totally accept this is no doubt my limited life experience.

I was shocked and delighted at the savoury traybake idea.

I think we would call that a bake? Or a casserole bake?

I have never heard it as a tray bake.

and yes please to TIFFEN

An old one of my (Scottish) Grandmothers...

Digestives (smashed up) with melted better, cocoa powder, golden syrup.
Dried fruit if you fancy.
Set in the fridge, then add a layer of melted chocolate..

Yes also Scottish and also yes to a sweet tray bake. My mum used to make a peppermint slice.

I wonder if the savoury traybake is more of a recent thing. It pops up on the likes of the Good Food website when I am searching for a recipe these days. It's like a one pan thing with meat, veg and carbs all cooked at the same time. Nice now and again, but I'd rather have a rocky road thanks!

I do also make what is now called "school cake" in a tray bake tin, for cake sales. Iy was just a sponge cake when I was young... (vanilla sponge, coloured glace icing, sprinkles). Its quick to maje and sells quickly as the young ones dont want anything fancy.

I from northern ireland and we love our tray bakes.
I would make FIFTEENS ... amazing

Tiffin is elite. Honourable mention for a Paradise Finger.

Also Scottish 🙋‍♀️😂

Why? Why would you post this when Im on a diet?! Cruel.

The ironic thing about N Irish tray bakes is that few of them have ever seen the inside of an oven. Yes please to a pineapple delight.

I'm of Northern Irish Protestant extraction and traybakes can only be sweet in my book!!! My go-to is a Mary Berry chocolate sponge one with a chocolate ganache and white chocolate feathered topping, it's soooo good.

I don't know what I would call a savoury one - a one-tin dinner, maybe? 🤔

I (SE England) would definitely assume a traybake is sweet. I have a Mary Berry book called ‘fast cakes’ that has a section called traybakes and she is obviously the authority on such a matter I’d make the spiced toffee cake from that book, which is a go to recipe for me, or flapjacks with dried apricots and sunflower seeds.
What I imagine the savoury recipes are is probably what I would call a roasting tin recipe or possibly a casserole.

I saw a recipe the other day where a pasta bake was called a traybake. But I would always think a traybake is a cake or something sweet prepared in a tray.

Well to me a traybake needs to be baked (in an oven). Even though all those no-bake goodies in trays sound great, my pedantic brain couldn't call them a traybake.
My Mary Berry cookbook has a whole chapter on traybakes. They're mostly some kind of sponge cake, usually with a flavoured topping.
So I'd make Lemon drizzle or Carrot and orange?

My Irish friend used traybake to describe a savoury dish, but no one else I know does.

Both! Millionaire shortbread, flapjack, coconut jam sponge. But also savoury, it’s a really easy weeknight meal. Like this one:
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a70864649/one-pan-dumpling-recipe/

There was a great thread years ago about Protestant Tray bakes.

They sounded so tasty, I was sorry to have been brought up Catholic.

Had a traybake for dinner tonight, squash, courgette, mushrooms, rice and chickpeas with smoked paprika and garlic. Savoury all the way

Yes, the protestant tray bake thread was one of my favourite ever MN threads

As with the poster upthread I love fifteens

Found it https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3527870-Which-is-the-tastiest-Protestant-traybake

A few years ago I would have assumed if someone said to me traybake I would have assumed sweet and still with my friends if they tell me they are making a traybake I assume sweet as that has always been the case.

I am living in Cork and in my experience if someone says to me that they are making a traybake I assume it is savoury, normally chicken or fish with veg and some kind of dressing/sauce.

I think ive seen the same thread as you!

Sweet all the way - although it was pretty clear from the OP im thinking of thry wanted savoury (even if the title drew me in promising chocolaty goodness).

Millionaire shortbread
Rocky road
And a chocolate cake thing thst had an icing that didn't require icing sugar (in the days I lived abroad and icing sugar wasnt smooth enough for the icings I was used to)