Which is the tastiest Protestant traybake?

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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?

SDTG ...have a look for strawberry shortcake recipes, that's not cake, not biscuit ....and you could easily jam it instead of strawberries

Definitely another vote here for moving this into classics. Quite apart from the great sense of humour displayed throughout there are some brilliant recipes...(Personally I was very partial to a melted down Aero traybake when I was in Belfast. Though the Maltesers one was also pretty good. And the tiffin....)

white chocolate and raspberry scones

Never heard of such a thing!

Sounds very......flamboyant. Bakers of yore would be scandalised at such decadence.

The Bay Tree in Holywood makes cinnamon scones which I would easily commit all sorts of unmentionable offences to get my hands on

OH MY GOD it's been nine years since I had one - not since I was back for my wedding - and I need one NOW.

Yes SDTG that sounds exactly the same.

Ha fiddlefaddle we didn't have hot cross buns or mince pies! My dad even laughed at my soft, English ways after I came back from England to visit and made him porridge with milk instead of water. I thought I'd done well remembering it was supposed to be done with salt instead of sugar! I eat porridge with cream, walnuts and raisins these days, my dad would have me stripped of my nationality...

I love a cinnamon scone, particularly if the top is crunchy with sugar.
There's a bakery in Ards that has dozens of different scones.
Also partial to a treacle farl and butter.

Any body passing near Whiteabbey and fancies a nice scone, should call into The Cosy Chair. They habe the most amazing selection of scones.

Anyone remember the cinnamon scones in the late lamented Common Ground cafe? They were amazing.

PLEASE someone post all manner of wanton fancy scone recipes

I have the recipe for Bay Tree cinnamon scones...

My home economics teacher knew the woman who owned it and we made them in school.

I can't get to it right now due to baby wrangling but can post it later.

This thread is brilliant and it is true about NI Protestants and their traybakes. My favourite night of the year used to be Boys Brigade parents’ night ... not for the displays which the boys had laboured for weeks to perfect but for the tea, sandwiches and traybakes!

I shall read it properly later!

2nd the raspberry and white choc scones. Heated slightly so the white chocolate just starts to melt 😋

My DD's national school belongs to a C of I church and they have a lovely cafe that I often stop at after school drop off and they have fabulous scones, usually plain or fruit but sometimes raspberry and white chocolate.

RoI Protestants don't have that such a strong traybake focus, there are traybakes but there are also other baked goods. There is a very high commitment to baking for communal consumption though, perhaps that is a Protestant thing. Absolutely every woman, and an increasing number of men, have one recipe that they can churn out blindfolded at short notice. They will always have a stock of ingredients, which is why my go-to isn't Nigella's Malteser traybake, unattended Maltesers would be scoffed. I'm a terrible baker but even I had found 'my' recipe within a couple of years of my older child starting national school.

Love this thread.

mmmmm am loving the sound of different flavours of scones.

Oooh, I'm looking forward to some scone recipes. @ElevenOhFive I love love love raspberry ruffle bars, as does my mum. If it's not too outing, could you let me know where I can find them, then I can somehow manufacture an outing there when I've next over...!

Reading back over this thread has made me realise why I'm no longer slim ..
The best funerals were when the ladies of the church did the food for after

When my MIL sadly passed away last year, I was staggered at the amount of home-made traybakes that people brought to the wake. One lady brought FOUR huge tins, each filled with traybakes or fruit cake. The cupboards were full, the kitchen worktop was piled high with tins and containers full of baked goods, and the utility room was full of them too .

Right, I can confirm that a ‘small tin of condensed milk’ is not the tin they have in the local shop which is 397g. Consistency was waaaaaaaay to wet.

Anyone have an 80s recipe which states the weight of a ‘small tin’?

My entire childhood in NZ suddenly making sense. Descended from Protestant northern Irish immigrants who churned out many a mouth-watering tray bake. Or in NZ a “slice”.

What were you making 3out? For a lot of these recipes it's a matter of getting used to and 'knowing' what the right consistency is, but it seems like a pp was right and that a 'small tin' would be half a standard condensed milk tin.

There was discussion about tin size several (many) pages back 3out, a small tin is half of a standard 397g tin. You can either use half a tin and eat the other half with a spoon or double up all the other ingredients. The choice is yours.

It was truffles (foreign muck ;) but a staple in Scotland). The recipe called for 12-14 digestives, and I ended up having to add about 18 more (full packet) so that the consistency was right, so that would back up the half-size proposal. Also, mum thinks maybe they were 7oz tins, I think that’s about 200g.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius that lemon fudge tray bake sounds lush.

Thanks both! :)

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