Which is the tastiest Protestant traybake?

[FiddleFaddleDingDong]

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?

I’m a NI Catholic and love to bake, but, do you know, I have NEVER made a tray bake. What a revelation. #taigsfortraybakes

P.S. is it true that Protestants love garden centres as well?

As a Presbyterian I have made many traybakes in my time. The old favourites are the best - caramel squares and fifteens. I often substitute the cherries with jelly babies. 15 digestive biscuits, 15 marshmallows, 15 jelly babies, 1 tin of condensed milk and coconut to cost the outside with.

There was non-chocolate one made from cornflakes, peanuts and cherries but I haven't seen it in a while.

I often wonder if the mars bar and apple sandwich or chicken and grape sandwich is also a Protestant tradition of whether it was common in other circles?

PierreBezukov yes to the Presbyterian salad sandwiches 🤣

Can we have your snowball recipe please. I love it when your hands get caked in the mix while rolling them and you basically have to eat it off your palms (or is that just me?)

I'm just kidding Enid!

Sorry my sarcasm was lost online

@Firstbornunicorn 😂 at the mars bar and apple sandwich

I hate Tophats. Pointless things.
Give me a caramel rice crispie bake.

@PierreBezukov I also would love that recipe....I think it is the same as what my granny used to make.

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

I think though I am happy to be corrected, that old tins of condensed milk were labelled 14oz and 7oz. Now there is just one that is 397g which is 14 oz, so 1 small tin is now just half a tin.

This lapsed one sure loves a garden centre. I have just remembered Gur Cake. Any takers?

I'm getting the sense that a yummy traybake filled funeral is the ying to grief's yang!

Wow! Thanks flavia

What 'in the name of the wee man' is an apple and mars bar sandwich?!

I'm an atheist and I make fucking amazing Mary Berry traybakes. I can recommend Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book.

Her recipes work. Especially the crunchy topped lemon loaf which can easily be turned into a traybake.

www.odlums.ie/recipes/gur-cake/

I have even come across a recipe using cold mashed potato in a traybake.

Coconut macaroons made with potato.....(I'm from Scottish Presbyterian stock)

Had to register to say I still make marshmallow pom-poms (snowballs?) usually only at Christmas as they are such a fad

sorry, bold fail

faff not fad - first post & typo fail thanks autocorrect

@Piglet89 I'm a former-NI Protestant and can confirm that on visits home I like to stop off at the garden center cafe for a coffee and a tray bake never realised I was such a cliche.

Oh chester bread! I'm familiar with that one, although never heard it referred to as Gur Cake before.

I can't believe this is actually a thing, I clicked on the thread thinking it was a funny spelling mistake! off to ask NI protestant dp where all the tray bakes are and why I haven't tried any yet!

@Piglet89 oh you can't beat a visit to the garden centre especially when you can get a tray bake in the cafe.

@FiddleFaddleDingDong soft white pan loaf,buttered, with thin slices of apple (preferably Granny Smith) and mars bar layered onto of each other (1 layer of each) 😋

My mum made Philadelphia and grape sandwiches I think it's the dark side of the traybake ability.

Piglet89 now you mention it, my Catholic SIL has never been in a garden centre my mum is going to bring her to the one in Donaghadee apparently, they do the best apple tart ..

OMG ( hope to not offend anyone )
I bake for a cafe , and fifteens are so going on the menu next week
Ummmm , Maltese traybakes sound good too

Sundaybakes welcome, we lured you out of lurking with traybakes

Placemarking for recipes.

(I am Catholic and like everyone else only clicked to see what the typo was)