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?

The best Protestant tray bake is a well done mars bar rice crispie square. Pure heaven. Fifteens don't have a patch on them.
Protestants do love a tray bake! It should have been on the board along with soup 😂

I forgot about this Scottish lady's blog. No idea whether she's Protestant or not but like Mr Kipling, she does make exceedingly good cakes traybakes.

somethingsweetsomethingsavoury.com/no-bake-mint-aero-traybake/

somethingsweetsomethingsavoury.com/cadbury-creme-egg-brownies/

Quite the cross-post there with Pash!

@SrSteveOskowski those recipes look deeeelicious. Just the thing I'm after, even if their Protestant provenance is questionable.

Oh my goodness, this thread is a revelation.

We absolutely love a tray bake down our way (mostly heathens these days, but a Protestant country ), and I just had to google Fifteens as they sounded so intriguing.

And what do you know - we have something almost (but crucially not quite) identical.

Lolly cake: shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/recipe/2390?name=lolly-cake

What!!! No lemon drizzle?!!!

I have to add that I do love a good flakemeal biscuit, even better if it is half dipped in chocolate. The recipe I use is below.

grandmaabson.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-taste-of-irish-with-flakemeal-biscuits.html

@Pashazade all the best recipes were scribbled down by a mum in 1982. That's a scientific fact.

An extract from one of the aforementioned WI books inherited from my mum, now in bits after many years of use. (I love how simple instructions are in old recipe books - might as well read “mix all the ingredients together like any good Protestant woman should already know how to anyway, put in fridge, eat for God and Ulster”).

The fudge squares are like crack cocaine.

“mix all the ingredients together like any good Protestant woman should already know how to anyway, put in fridge, eat for God and Ulster”

And no protestant woman i know measures out her ingredients. Its all by eye and taste!

Louise cake (obviously not an actual cake).

I can confirm Methodists have no such decadence (unless things have moved on since the 80s).

I’m flying to NI tomorrow for a few days - have orders to bring back crunchie traybskes - which are only found by the filling station by craigavon hospital!

Will have to divert of motorway especially to track them down!

Holy Shit @ElevenOhFive you have just made my year!!!!

Fudge squares will be made tomorrow in this atheist house. I will channel all the Protestant women in my family as I make them. :o

Mars bar rice crispies?

Intrigued as to what fifteens are but I'm Catholic so daren't google...

@FlaviaAlbia rich pickings on Fahan Church's website. Aero Bars and Iced Lemon Squares sound immense! They can keep their boiled cake however.

(I'm also subliminally taking on board the Jesus is Lord Romans Chapter 10 v 9 message)

As an aside, you know those bags of tiny Lindor balls you get at Christmas or egg shaped ones at easter...? Don't ever mix them into tiffin mix.

Wonder how much a small tin of condensed milk is? I only ever see one size of tin in the shops

Lemon drizzle is cake though, that’s why no ones mentioned it. I love it, but it’s not a traybake ;)

Presbyterian traybakes - hard to beat. Funerals have the best selection, followed by Presbyterian salad sandwiches of course, and tea from enormous stainless steel teapots.

My favourite has to be the snowball (NOT with chocolate) - it's basically a marshmallow (biggish kind, not those mini ones) covered in a paste made from condensed milk, butter, digestive biscuit and dessicated coconut. It is divine. Similar to fifteens but nicer. I make them myself. If anyone would like the recipe, please ask and I'll post it. I promise you it is amazing.

My god this is so true and I never clicked ! My prod granny was the queen of traybakes, fifteens, caramel squares, sheet cake and my catholic granny occasionally bought fruit squares from the shop... it's all beginning to make sense.

Caramel squares get my vote

@PierreBezukov please can I have the recipe , those sound amazing!!

So being English and not at all Protestant I have literally no horse in this race. I do, however, make a mean “bumpy track” (this is what my incredibly witty husband has renamed rocky road....). It’s the nigella recipe but made with broken biscuits (yes they’re still a thing), glacé cherries, marshmallows and dessicated coconut. So essentially not hers at all as she just does marshmallows and biscuits 🤷‍♀️

Anyway the one thing I feel like you lot can help me with is this: my husband’s uncle had Irish family. At his wake there were apparently scones that “tasted like digestive biscuits” according to my husband. I have no idea who made them or even what they looked like, but they were apparently delicious and digestive-y. I have failed for the last 5 years to find a recipe that he calls anything like, so I’m handing it over to the actual experts in this field. Someone out there must know of a recipe for scones that taste like digestives!!