Tray bake: not chocolate, apple, coffee, carrot or lemon drizzle

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Having friends over for coffee tomorrow. Shopping in the morning so have time to get ingredients.

I'd like some sort of tray bake, but don't want to use chocolate, apple, coffee, carrot or lemon drizzle (combination of guest dislikes or cakes we've had recently - we take it in turns to host)

I want something 'cakey', thinking tray bake as can cut into small squares for those that only want a taste, those who want more (like me!) can have more.

I'd like it to be light and tasty and preferably quick to make.

I know I can Google but often people have their favourites hence asking on here. Thank you .

Raspberry and almond - my mum makes one that's just a slightly modified sponge recipe but this sounds similar: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/raspberry-almond-traybake

Biscoff rocky road

Mary Berry had a book (Fast Cakes) years ago with a basic sponge recipe with variations for a traybake. My favourite one said it was a fruitcake, but basically it was a light sponge traybake with added sultanas and demerara sugar sprinkled over the top part-way through the cooking time. It's delicious. My mum made it when I was younger and I still make it now.

Love this typo 😂

Desecrated coconut 😂

How about blondies? Or an orange cake (vanilla sponge with zested orange added) with an orange whipped cream on top? Or a bread and butter pudding?

This is hands down the most delicious traybake I've ever made. From memory it's quite quick to throw together although it took a little longer to cook than the recipe says. Leave out the almond extract unless you're marzipan fiends - it's really not my thing.

Gah! Link got deleted. Here - my best tray bake rhttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/mar/13/tamal-ray-one-tin-brown-butter-almond-and-berry-traybake-recipe

Ginger. I hate ginger cake but lots of people love it.

School dinner.cake! With hundreds and thousands.

I was coming on to recommend this book- so many good tray bake ideas. Get the book OP, it comes in so handy!

Also take a look at 'coffee cakes' on US food sites. Despite the name they are not coffee flavoured, instead they're cakes to have with coffee. Generally they're one layer tray bakes. Often an overlap with crumb cakes (cakes with a crumble topping). Eg. https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/02/big-crumb-coffee-cake/

Bakewell.

Peach Melba traybake is lovely.

Sticky spiced ginger tray bake. It's on the BBC Good Food website.

This and Nigella's Guinness cake are the two cakes (of probably 10 I make) that every single person does that OMG face when they take a mouthful and asks for the recipe.

Mmmmm. Sacrilicious.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tottenham-cake I made this the other day, I used normal vanilla essence, and some frozen blackberries instead of raspberries. The original used mulberries, so it doesn't matter. It was lovely.

White choc and raspberry? (I know you said no chocolate but wasn’t sure if you meant all chocolate or just milk)

or- it’s not cake but easy and super quick and delicious- biscoff fudge. Just melt 400g of white choc (cheap cooking choc works) with 200g of biscoff and a can of condensed milk. Do it on a low heat on the Hob with lots of stirring- doesn’t take long. Scoop it onto a tray lined with grease proof paper and if you want to make it look fancy add some meted swirls of white choc and some lotus biscuits crumbs. Stick in fridge overnight and the next day you will have delicious fudge

I just made a basic vanilla sponge traybake and added loads of raisins that I had soaked overnight in rum.

Pumpkin spice is nice, was in BBC Easy Cook magazine I think.

Was Sainsbury's mag! Was really tasty.

Delias Double ginger:

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/cake-recipes/preserved-ginger-cake

Northern Irish fifteens

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/fifteens

Oh my goodness. So many lovely suggestions, I don't think I'll be losing weight any time soon, thank you

The Hungry Hookers Carmelitas - absolutely gorgeous .

Follow him on insta - oh good god his tray bakes are incredible

www.instagram.com/p/CHdG7NHJxYf/?igsh=enh4a3BjcW1rdmZv

A Mary Berry classic; I've used it for years. (The size of the tin is the key to success.)

https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/mary-berrys-coffee-and-walnut-traybake/