jaffa cakes........ are they really cakes?

woosaysdan

ok are jaffa cakes really cakes or are they biscuits?

David19

Hmm this is a grey area. Maybe they are both? A cake-biscuit if you will. I'd go for little cakes though. Its the sponge.

aidan_walsh

According to nicecupofteaandasitdown.com, they are cakes.

Q. Are Jaffa cakes biscuits.

A. No, no the're not. Apart from being called cakes they obviously have a sponge base. Granted they appear to be some kind of luxury biscuit being chocolate covered and shipping in a box.

DJPJ

Definitely biscuits... ..someone should get onto the standards in advertising people and make them stop! ..I would but I'm too busy stuffing the biscuits into my mouth.

gaui3d0pnbz86o

But the sponge bottom, on the real ones anyway not like the fake ones with hard bottoms, are cakes!

whats the best way to eat them , i go for sponge first, then chocolate toppping followed by the smashing orangy bit!

i once ate a packet like this and kept ALL the orangy bits till then end! mmmmm tangy!

smoke.me.a.kipper

they are neither cakes or biscuits. they are simply delicious.

neuro-praxis

Stop subliminally plugging your mother's cookery show.

THEMS BISCUITS AYE

Hagar

In the UK Jaffa Cakes are legally cakes according to the VAT man. The rates of VAT for biscuits and cakes are different. So Jaffa cakes in the UK attract the lower VAT rate and are therefore excellent value for money. Yum yum

(extract from my vast repetoire of useless facts)

Basq

Yeah, i would call classify them as a cake technically... just for the sponge base that's mentioned above.

Amnesiac_ie

As far as the tax man is concerned they are cakes.

I think the vast majority of people consider them to be biscuits!

ARGINITE

they are mini sponge cakes with choclate and orange stuff on them!

cregser

I'll go with cakes simply because of the spongy goodness.

How do you eat yours?
First I bite a chink out of it getting just a taste of the gooey centre.
I nibble the chocolate around the edges leaving just the orangy bit and the sponge.
Then I gobble it up whole. Hmmm, I want one.

Seraphina

who cares whether they're cakes or biscuits, they're YUCK!

i seem to be the only one who doesn't like them
although i admit i will eat them when i have the munchies and need a sugary fix.
i am teh SUGAR MONSTER!

ferdi

Seraphina wrote:

although i admit i will eat them when i have the munchies and need a sugary fix.

many a time has a box of jaffa cakes brought a stoned ferdi to his knees, especially as they always seem to be on spacial offer in the centra in ucd, which convinces my feeble mind that its a good idea to buy them...although the mc vities ones are ****e.

sceptre

Hagar wrote:

In the UK Jaffa Cakes are legally cakes according to the VAT man. The rates of VAT for biscuits and cakes are different. So Jaffa cakes in the UK attract the lower VAT rate and are therefore excellent value for money. Yum yum

(extract from my vast repetoire of useless facts)

Bah, I was going to bring that up when I saw the thread title. Boo! (pos rep for Hagar)

PH01

They're biscuits.
Why?
Because you can eat a lot of them and still be hungry.
If they were cakes you'd only need to eat one.
That's a simple rule. If you have to eat more than one, then it's a biscuit. Just one, then it's a cake!

Problem solved. Next Cake Pie question please.

woosaysdan

why cant they be called small cakes???

p.pete

When cakes go stale they go hard
When biscuits go stale they go soft
Jafa "cakes" go hard

woosaysdan

i cant believe you ate stale jaffa cakes

ixoy

Fancy biscuits I think, because of their dimunitive side. Having said that at what size is a cake not a cake? What about a cup cake? Where do we draw the line people!!!

Also: Jaffa Cakes are on special offer in Iceland on Talbot Street. Two for the price of one. I'm hungry now...

PH01

ixoy wrote:

Also: Jaffa Cakes are on special offer in Iceland on Talbot Street. Two for the price of one. I'm hungry now...

I'm there...

penguinbloke

Okay so I think they're cakes but what about the jaffa cake bar.

I personally think McVities are just trying to confuse us.

p.pete

woosaysdan wrote:

i cant believe you ate stale jaffa cakes

Don't jump to conclusions - i just prodded it

neuro-praxis

...with an optional jaffa cake perched on the saucer, like a soldier standing to attention next to a...giant cup of tea.

memphis

Jaffa cakes should not be justified as cakes, they are merrily treats!

MidnightQueen

Jaffa cakes:

They remind me of Cadburys cream eggs. How do u eat yours??

*adele*

in a very odd way :rolleyes:

Caoimhe

But jaffa cakes don't do well dipped in tea or coffee which is the general point of biscuits.

Basq

OK, i'm gonna try and settle this up now...

Was watching QI the other night on BBC2 and this exact same discussion with Jaffa Cakes came up during it.

Stephen Fry then told us that..

The matter was settled over ten years ago by a VAT tribunal in a very expensive case. McVities argued that they were indeed cakes (and hence zero-rated for VAT), while HM Customs and Excise argued that they were biscuits and hence subject to 17.5 per cent VAT.

McVities even baked a cake-sized Jaffa Cake for the tribunal chairman to support their legal arguments.

McVities won the case, primarily because of this fact (wait for it!)...

Biscuits are hard when fresh, and soft when stale. Whereas cakes are soft when fresh, and hard when stale. Jaffa Cakes, of course, fall into the latter category.

There's a nice little fact for you there!

Victor

Who cares? Just eat them.

billy the squid

Dare I ask? would kimberly fall into the same category, they are soft when fresh and hard when stale.

uberwolf

yep due to the moisture content they are deemed cakes as I discovered today in converstation with a revenue related person.

either way I love em