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?

Firstbornunicorn

My grandparents were NI Protestants. I feel like this is something I should've been told about. I've neglected my heritage by baking cakes all these years when I could've been knocking up immense traybakes.

Mind you, I make a mean flapjack if that counts.

Anyone have a recipe for one with condensed milk and coconut?

TIA

(don't tell the catholics)

No, Enid, it doesn't count

Flapjack

Macaroons SurgeHopper? Or fifteens?

the type of traybakes which we are talking about here are the ones which don’t actually involve baking

In that case, I would like to offer up my atheist creation, Millionaire's Tiffin. I invented it when I couldn't be arsed to make the shortbread base. It is either the food of the gods or the work of the devil, depending on your religious persuasion.

Here you go. Recipes from an Irish lapsed Catholic. Most likely originally posted by similar!
First one is 'Caramel Squares' - aka 'Millionaire's Shortbread'
Second one is Mars bar rice krispie cakes
Reduce the amount of butter in the rice krispie squares or else you get a predominantly buttery taste.
This one is Nigella's Malteser traybake.

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My DM comes from a non-UK tradition with really amazing baking and growing up in England I was pretty sure I'd got the better end of the deal with her apple cake etc.
I see now the error of my ways.

Thinking about it there were a lot of traybakes at every party I had or went to as a child. Including funerals.

Pineapple delight gets my vote. You'll never get a traybake at a coffee shop that comes close to the quality you'll get in a dusty Presbyterian church hall. Served with tea in a china cup, poured out of an enormous battered teapot.

These modern evangelical churches have gone mad for artisan coffee, but it's not the same.

@Ellicam - no, no decorations like that... She always used to make it as our christmas log - a complicated thing that required the lining, in foil, of the inside of an old whisky bottle tin, to make it log shaped, and it would then be decorated with icing sugar, robins and holly...

I no longer live at home, dmum is getting on and finds it tricky to line the tin so I just get a square tin of it, wrapped in foil, no decorations and it doesn't get brought out when we have guests at christmas as there's just the one and it's all mine and people always come back for seconds and thirds and it disappears way too quickly. Lives in the back fridge which is out in the garage and most of the rest of the family can't be bothered to go and get any as it's too cold out there so they tend to forget it exists .

It's a very late 60s/70s recipe - think it could have been from the Cordon Bleu cookery course that came out weekly and had special files to keep it in... I don't care, it's my favourite cake!

The mint aero traybake is this one. To much work for everyday.

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It is Lent guys, and a Friday to boot, so maybe not a good day for a Catholic traybake.

Its a great day for an atheist one though. This is when we can feel smug.

@firstborn....ah i see how that wouldn't apply Rub along quite nicely here in rural Tyrone. Well pre 29th march anyway :/

Macaroons SurgeHopper? Or fifteens?

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Both please 3out 😌

Millionaire's Tiffin

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Firstborn how big was the malteaser square if you were able to be fully immersed in it?

Please can someone enlighten me on what pineapple delight is, that’s one I’ve not heard of.

A bit OT but bakeries of all denominations in NI have much better stuff than here in England. Currant squares, apple squares (the ones with thin pastry, not cakey ones), german biscuits etc. Rock cakes. Wholemeal date scones (and more interesting scones in general). Wheaten/soda bread. My mum’s favourite local cafe even does amazing jam sponge and custard, like school dinners.

My granny used to make balls that were a condensed milk/chocolate/biscuit mixture wrapped around a marshmallow and coated in coconut. Heaven.

My mum had a rugby club fundraiser book full of recipes for traybakes. My favourite was a sort of fudge but before you let it set you mixed digestive biscuits through it.

Wish I had recipes for these so I could make them now.

Surge I googled, Flapjack is a traybake so...

Right, I am now a convert. Whichever branch of religion has the best cakes can have me. Move up and save me a space on the pew next Sunday - hopefully the cakes are passed around after service?

The best cookbooks are the ones made in the 80s or earlier for fundraisers. Woman’s Guild, local hospital, local playgroup mums’ etc. Traybake gold dust.

Love a 1980s cookbook. What they lack in Instagram-ity they make up for in flavour and easy to grab a hold of ingredients.

I am so saving this thread. A whole new wonderful world!
My recipe for Mars Bar Rice Krispie Bar is always enjoyed so if anyone's interested....
3 oz marg
3 tbsp golden syrup
4 mars bars (as they come in the multi pack) it used to be 3, but mars bars have shrunk!
Melt together in a large pan
Stir in 4 cups of Rice Krispies (supermarket own brand works just as well)
Press into tray. (Swiss roll tin)
Melt 200g dark chocolate pour over and smooth out evenly
Refrigerate
It is very very sticky, but delicious. Makes 18 medium pieces
For authenticity it's from a hand written recipe stuck in the back of my mother's Woman's Own cookbook.