Jaffa cake, cake or biscuit?????

Question

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 1

full moon, half moon,total eclipse lol got to be the Jaffa's

Answer 2

My honest answer - Both!

But let us approach this question scientifically.

Take a Jaffa cake. Leave it on your kitchen counter for 3 days (with a sign saying "don't eat this - experiment in progress").

When the time is up - is the Jaffa cake soft or hard in consistency?

It should be pretty hard.

I conclude that it is therefore a cake, as a slice of cake would dry out and go hard. A biscuit would go soft (try the same experiment with a chocolate digestive and you'll see what I mean).

Answer 3

Cakes and they are classified as cakes for saving taxes.. but as they are small like the bisuits they are displayed in Biscuits section.
They have a Sponge base a Jam layer ( orange jam made of Jaffa Oranges ) topped with Chocolate. This chocolate topping was what made the contorversy as Choclate topped Biscuits were charge 17.5% tax (luxury goods) whereas cakes were not.So they classified it as cake. Ofcourse later this was challenged and the manufacturers of Jaffa Cake made a huge Jaffa cake just to prove that it was a cake but a smaller version and not a biscuit!

Answer 4

Arghhh! The age-old question!

Obviously, the fact that the name includes the word 'cake' would strongly suggest that they are cakes, but the size and shape betrays this and leaves them in the biscuit aisle in most supermarkets.
And now, when we look at the packet it tells us that there are also 'Jaffa cake bars' available in the cake aisle! Surely this would lead us to believe that the original 'Jaffa cakes' are infact biscuits?!
Of course, when you actually eat them, they are convienient and obviously made for just one person, so the word biscuit would appear more appropriate, but I suspect that if we looked at the actual definition of the words 'cake' and 'biscuit' they would refer to the ingredients and cooking methods of the treat in question. Which I am afraid to say, draws me to the final conclusion that they MUST be cakes!

Answer 5

Ingredients
1 lemon, juice and zest
2 digestive biscuits
4tbsp toasted brown breadcrumbs
250g/9oz mascarpone cheese
10g soft butter
100g/3½oz caster sugar
50ml/2fl oz double cream
1 tbsp clear honey
For the garnish
1 jar raspberry sauce
½ punnet fresh raspberries
8 sprigs of fresh mint
Method
1. In a mixing bowl, crush the biscuits into small pieces. Add half the breadcrumbs and combine with the soft butter, sugar and honey. Place the mixture into either one 6inch ring or two small metal rings. Press the mixture evenly on the bottom of the mould.
2. Whisk up the double cream until it has just peaked and leave to one side. Add the lemon juice, zest and breadcrumbs to the cheese. Then fold in the cream carefully, making sure not to mix it too much as this will cause the mix to split and not set.
3. Spoon the mix into the ring. Use a palette knife to press the mix into the moulds to prevent air gaps. Remove the ring with a hot cloth.
4. To garnish, pour a pool of raspberry sauce in the centre of the plate. Then place 4 raspberries and a sprig of mint in three piles around each plate.
5. Place the cheesecake on the sauce in the centre of the plate and decorate the top with raspberries and mint. Serve.

Answer 6

Its a cake. Thats why they call it a Jaffa C A K E. Also you pay less tax on the manufacture of cakes than youu do on biscuits.

Answer 7

Cake. When a cake is stale it goes hard, when a biscuit is stale it goes soft. Also, the word biscuit means baked twice which (I'm guessing) a Jaffa Cake is not.

Answer 8

Biscuit.....they're usually with the biscuits in the supermarket..but they also make jaffa cake bars which are on the cake aisle!!

Answer 9

I thought everyone knew there are cakes. McVities had to prove this to the Government tax office. Cakes go stale when old where as biscuits go soft. But whatever you think, there still the best...

Answer 10

Somebodies been listening to Radio 1...

Apparently it's a cake

Answer 11

Legally it's a cake. I'm not lying here, the govt. (ie VAT) office had to have it clarified in order to ensure the right rate of VAT was charged and it is a cake! It's has soft sponge base it's a cake.