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?

Caramel square always - millionaires shortbread is just too hard. Wouldn’t say no to a German biscuit or a fresh cream finger either - has to have white icing and coconut though! I am always disappointed by the bakeries in England - no chance of a cherry and walnut scone here either.

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rosablue that sounds amazing!

Also opening the thread assuming Protestant was epic autocorrect fail.

Now want to make a traybake.

Not sure of it's religious persuasion but I do a mean tray of blondies; the DD doesn't need anyone to die to ask me to make it.
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I had Irish grandparents and the staunch Wee Free from the Islands side so this thread really appeals 😂😂

Proper Protestant shortbread, buttery, melts on your tongue. Says the CofI rector’s daughter.

I also thought it was an autocorrect :) I'm disappointed.

Not least because I am an atheist and thus, apparently, I have nothing.

@Chocolatepeanuts not in West Belfast!

At the risk of being a bit, well, Presbyterian about the whole thing, I think we need to be clear that the type of traybakes which we are talking about here are the ones which don’t actually involve baking - they are the melted butter and chocolate/crushed biscuits/desiccated coconut in varying amounts variety. No cakes in trays.

3out is right - the best traybake recipes are to be found in books produced by the likes of the local Presbyterian Women’s Association or WI in the 1980s. I have even come across a recipe using cold mashed potato in a traybake.

Can I also mention the dark side of the Presbyterian church hall funeral spread... pots of milky pre-mixed tea 😱🤢

Thank you Mrs jayy, not Lammingtons but Tottenham Cake. It's quite plain and, er, worthy.

There is a distinct lack of recipes on this thread! Care to share?

what do atheists have?!

Weightwatchers

Don't bet on it Firstbornunicorn, I married in and my baking list substantially increased

Atheists have fuck all. Misery, intellectual superiority and fuck all.

At the risk of being a bit, well, Presbyterian about the whole thing,

You'll be talking about Baptists next

@rosablue my mum makes that one at Christmas, it’s lovely. Does your mum decorate it with half cherries and walnuts too?

So funny ElevenohFive, I was just about to comment about the whole tray’bake’ fallacy! 😂

milky pre-mixed tea

No wonder my Nan muttered under her breath about her low church contemporaries

SlinkyDinkyDoo here's some www.fahanchurch.org/recepies.htm

But mostly they're on a badly printed booklet sold to make money and stored in your mum or granny's cookbook...

Why aren’t there more recipe links in this thread??? Sectarianism at its worst! (Have given up cakes for Lent 😭)

How did i not know Protestant tray bakes were even a thing when my granny is an NI P and so is my dad?!!

I know tray bakes but don't know about the religious ones.
It's a great thread but not enough recipes!!

Please post recipes!

@FlaviaAlbia to be fair, I only learned how to make a good Malteaser square after baptism by full immersion 😜

paradise slices,
pastry, jam. frangipane with cherries raisins and cubes of marzipan top sprinkled with flaked almonds
mocha squares not common but like a chocolate flapjack with coffee icing
In scotland I know our church cafe has people that come just for the cakes and tray bakes where else can you get decent filter coffee with free refills and a traybake and change from £2?
the retired catholic priest used to come for the cakes and a chat
6" scotch pancakes with butter and jam just 50p