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?

They do @MrsFrTedCrilly

I feel it's my duty to get one asap and take a photo for the thread before eating it

Yes, fadge and soda scones or slims.

An Ulster fry does have beans, mostly. Not forgetting the fried tomato.

The Presbyterian Church opposite me has women elders. One is also a primary school teacher and she is a real pillar of the community.

The PC is divided over women in leadership. But let's not make this thread too heavy eh?

Isabelle, she's one of four women elders in her church! It's fairly common around here (Co Antrim)

There's one Presbyterian church in our town who don't allow women elders, mums church don't take much to do with them

@FlaviaAlbia thank you!

This is one of my prize possessions " borrowed" from my my mother, also a Presbyterian elder, it has every possible variation on scones and farls and oatcakes in it and many things to make with dessicated coconut. I love the picture of the author, you wouldn't mess with her!

Bonus points for the bottle of Shloer in the photo, @wigglybeezer

If we're naming actual coffee shops can I do a shout out for Crusoes cafe in Castlerock. The chef, Roger, is the tallest man you'll ever meet, and he makes lots of amazing traybakes and the best wheaten bread you'll get anywhere in NI.

And no, he's not a relative of mine (though I wish he was!)

The Ruffle one. Powerful.

That is a mad coincidence but I was at Cruseos today! I should have had a traybake. Just had a panini and the cute kids plate my child refused to eat so I did

*PierreBezukov

If we're naming actual coffee shops can I do a shout out for Crusoes cafe in Castlerock. The chef, Roger, is the tallest man you'll ever meet, and he makes lots of amazing traybakes and the best wheaten bread you'll get anywhere in NI.

And no, he's not a relative of mine (though I wish he was!)*

What I’m about to say is ridiculously Northern Irish on many levels, but Roger went to my primary school and when we were doing our Giant’s Causeway project in P4, he came into our classroom to lie on a big bit of paper on the floor so we could draw round him for a cut out of Finn McCool. Seriously.

That's the most N Ireland thing I've ever read

My mum made amazing scones , they were huge and fluffy - she used buttermilk and baking powder.

Beckymumsnet - any thread which mentions donkey lugs and harp is automatically a classic! I love donkeys lugs!!

I flew over to NI today, have been down the local traybake isle for pavlova slices!

Now have a dilemma - choc pop or Mr Frostie for dessert?

ElevenOhFive that's amazing

@elevenohfive and @lipstick, remarkable coincidence!

Actually... nah, it's just NI for you.

Eleven - not doing much to dispel my belief that everyone in NI knows ‘ is related to each other.

We live in England and it turned out the NI teacher at my son’s school went to the same school in same tiny village as my DH and her dad used to play badminton with my NI father in law. Of course.

I also grew up without hot cross buns because they were "Catholic". I'm afraid the Orange Order enthusiasts in my family who believed that are long dead now, so I cannot ask them how a bun can have a religious affiliation.

I didn't know that about the hot cross buns being frowned upon, but if I had to make a stab at a theological reason, it would be that they have a cross on them (and Catholics are more into the crucifix than Prods) and they are traditionally eaten on Good Friday - for Protestants the empty tomb is the more important image than the cross, and Easter Sunday is celebrated rather than Good Friday .

But that's just my hunch.

"was your Derry Girls question about whether you'd need to have watched the first series to enjoy the second? Not especially but I would recommend watching the first series to begin with. It's on All 4 and there are only five or six half hour episodes in total." It was and thanks

Might binge later

"Beans are great with a fry. The trick is to try the beans in the pan you used to fry the bacon and sausages. Fried beans." Yep yummy (veggie bacon n sausages here)

What's a raspberry ruffle bar ?
Also somebody mentioned donkey something or other but I can't find their post.
What's that?
Innocent Catholic from down south.

Who hates hot cross bums

Like a bounty but raspberry flavored beanaseireann

Never heard of cross bun hate

Donkey lugs - they are buns - baked together in a circle, each bun is in the shape of donkeys ears, normally iced and split with cream in the middle.

You find raspberry ruffle bars in pound shops usually