Favourite 'traybake' please

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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.

I love fifteens. I haven't made them in ages. Definitely my favourite.

Thank you @mrshathaway!

Mars Bar squares are always popular:
www.food.com/recipe/mars-bars-rice-krispies-squares-no-bake-72608

Peat is good too (I usually leave out the coconut and raisins as my kids don't like them)
www.shetland.org/60n/blogs/posts/foula-peat-cake

Lemon bars. My aunt makes these and they're delicious and a bit different to the usual. Excuse the photo, it's from a very old recipe collection...

MrsHathaway - what toffees do you use for the crispies?

Supermarket own brand - in Morrisons it's the bag that's 3 for £2 or something, on the stand with sherbet lemons, American hard gums. That said, they sometimes have value brand which are a bit greasy just to eat but are great in recipes.

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

Either. Or into fairy cake cases (but watch timing). It's a very flexible recipe. Batter is really runny, like single cream, and surprisingly pale. But it's treacle-dark when cooked.

thank you for this thread!
(not sure my diet will thank you - but hey ho!)

Thank you MrsHathaway

I'm going to give it a go!

Some of these are lovely thank you

chocolate frosted traybake

bloody delicious- lasts about half an hour in this house
took some into a work meeting once and it was like the first day of the sales!!
www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2012/02/chocolate-frosted-traybake.html

ladypeterwimsey how much butter do you use for the strawberry oatmeal bars? I can work ok with cup measurements but I'm not sure how much butter 'a stick' would be over here?

TIA

I love a good traybakes. I've been making Pineapple Delights all summer, they're lovely

I love this thread!

Does anyone have a recipe for bounty cake? We had it on holiday and it was divine. I was similar to millionaire's shortbread, but had a lovely layer of soft coconut in the middle and a chocolate-type of base.

I'm craving it so much I might have to contact the cafe where we were.

MrsHathaway do you mean golden syrup when you mention syrup in your traybake recipe?

Super easy cake sale items -
Flavoured individual meringues with chocolate topping and sprinkles varied according to season. (Stars with glitter for Christmas etc).
Rocky road.
Swiss roll sliced and dipped in chocolate with a sweet on top.
Flapjacks.
Coconut pyramids
Jam tarts

MumBod

The other blogger I linked to has adapted it for Australian measurements and she uses 200g butter, as below.

•	200g cold butter, cut into pieces
•	1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
•	1 1/2 cup oats (quick or regular)
•	1 cup brown sugar, packed firm
•	1 teaspoon baking powder
•	1/4 teaspoon salt
•	1 x 370g jar of jam of your preference, I used IXL Strawberry Conserve
1.	Preheat oven to 180 degrees, then grease and line a 20 x 30 cm lamington tin.
2.	Put all the dry ingredients in the bowl of a food processor, blitz for just a moment until everything is just combined.
3.	Add chopped butter to the mix and process until mixture resembles crumbs with large/obvious chunks, roughly the size of rice grains. Be careful not to over-process.
4.	Divide mixture in half and press one half of the mixture firmly and evenly into the bottom of the lamington tin.
5.	Heat the jam in the microwave at 50% for 40 seconds and give it a good stir. Pour gently over the crumb base and use a spoon to spread evenly.
6.	Gently tip the rest of the crumb mixture on the top of the jam and spread evenly. Using clean fingers press down as firmly as possible without destabilising the jam.
7.	Bake for 20-30 mins until brown on top. Cool in the tin and use a sharp knife to cut into squares.

I make a grown up rocky road for work sometimes.

100g milk chocolate
100g dark chocolate
3 tbsp golden syrup
135g butter
200g ginger nuts
30ml rum
Dried cranberries, sultanas, sour cherries, apricots
Jelly beans
Pack mini marshmallows

Soak the dried fruit in the rum for about an hour. Melt the chocolate and butter together. Crush the gingernuts so you have an uneven sized bag of broken biscuits. Mix all ingredients together, spread out into a lined dish, cover with icing sugar and refrigerate overnight.

*melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup together.

Thank you LadyPeter

I am really grateful for this thread. I bake a cake every week but bought myself a traybake tin a couple of months ago.

It is so big I am slightly scared of it and haven't used it yet! I make a lemon and poppy seed cake or lemon drizzle or something like a Victoria sponge but would love something new.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000IAZOQC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=mumsnetforum-21

Looks too big to work so would love to hear it isn't.

This thread has caused me to google tiffin recipes before 9am. The diet is going SO well this week...

When I was baking between 50-100 servings of cake a week (don't ask!), a friend gave me this book, which has a whole traybake section. They are basically variations on all-in-one sponge cake, but all very good.

Yes, golden syrup.

@Gatekeeper I make that Pink Whisk traybake too....I've been asked if there's cocaine in it as it's so addictive lol.

BTW have checked and it's definitely 2:3:4:6 golden syrup:butter:sugar:oats.