I have multiple recipes for Alice Cakes, but I don’t remember eating these growing up. But there are many recipes I have encountered that are unfamiliar to me, that’s one of the pleasures of baking for this blog, I get to discover all sorts of new treats.
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I already posted one of my favorite childhood traybake recipes using Rice Krispies here (other puffed rice cereals are available!) and, of course, there is always the Mars Bar Traybake. And now this Date and Ginger Crunchies recipe is another option for the ‘Baking with Breakfast Cereal’ series. Or should that be serial?!
Chocolate Custard Slices. These were a big hit in the Traybakes’ household. They are no-bake. They are easy to make. They freeze well. And they are really rather yummy.
In my exploration of all things baking, I discovered that these Chocolate Custard Slices are incredibly similar to a Canadian traybake called Nanaimo Bars. The main difference seems to be the inclusion of almonds in the base of the Canadian version. Although, just like with many Northern Irish traybakes, there do appear to be multiple recipe variations. But I’m going to stick with calling them Chocolate Custard Slices.
This is not a recipe for traditional fudge. There is no need for a thermometer or trying to reach the ‘soft ball’ stage with your sugar mix. These Fudge Squares are an easy, no-bake traybake where you mix a caramel syrup with crushed biscuits and top it all with chocolate. Yum!
Amazingly, my little blog is now over a year old! Belated Birthday Greetings to the blog and a huge thank you to everyone out there who has liked, read, commented and (most importantly) baked this past year. To celebrate, here’s another classic traybake – the Mint Aero Square/Slice/Traybake!
I won’t try to claim that these traybakes will transport you to a tropical island. If that is your idea of paradise. Perhaps your idea of paradise is sitting in my kitchen in the middle of a New England winter watching Little Miss Traybakes paint a masterpiece with her new watercolor set while ignoring the housework? No?! Unfortunately, that’s all that I can offer right now. That, and a recipe for these Paradise Squares traybakes.
I’ve never been a big fan of the Mars Bar. I would never buy one in a shop. Although if you offered me a mini Mars Bar, I probably would take it. For some reason, I think they taste better than the full-sized bars.
But, the Mars Bar Traybake is a different story altogether! Somehow, a melted Mars Bar, mixed with Rice Krispies (other puffed rice cereals are available) transforms it into a very yummy, crispy, chewy treat that is hard to refuse!
There’s a chill in the air in the mornings, the trees are changing into a variety of reds and golden tones, there are tour buses full of ‘leaf-peepers’ stopping off in my historic New England town on their way to find the best foliage…and Little Miss Traybakes has been asking for some time now when we are going apple picking!
Yes, it’s Autumn again! Or Fall, if you prefer.
I know that I claim that a lot of these recipes are incredibly easy to make, but this one has to be near the top of the list of easy traybakes. It was quick to assemble and really only requires some chopping, butter melting and biscuit crushing.
Now, this is my third attempt at making a florentine style traybake. The two previous recipes hadn’t been very successful, so I was taking quite a gamble trying yet another florentine recipe! But this one worked! And they are rather yummy.
This was a new traybake for me, but at the same time there is something familiar about it. Perhaps I have eaten it in the past or maybe it’s just the combination of ingredients. Or maybe the meringue layer made me start to think about pavlova…
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