Jaffa cake, Choc biscuit or sponge cake???!
Answers: Ok I know this is not deep and meaningful, but my beloved and I are arguing about a jaffa cake and its status in biscuitdom, is it a chocolate biscuit or a sponge cake. 3 Packets riding on answer, ;-)
Jaffa Cakes are officially classed a cakes. They are not biscuits.
You see chocolate covered biscuits are considered a luxury item and VAT is charges @ 17.5%. So, in 1991 McVitie's went to court to prove they were cakes and won. As a result they did not have to pay vat on them. See link below.
there's no friggin biscuit in it?
deffo sponge
They're not called Jaffa Biscuits......
It is a biscuit if it goes soft when stale, and a cake if it goes hard when stale.
Jaffa Cakes go hard so...they're cakes!
They are cakes xx
Jaffa Cake. =]
they are both if you think about it carfully
when they brought they are spongy so they sponge
HOWEVER
once they are put in a tin or something they become crunchy so they are a biscuit
so they are both depending if you leave them in the box or put them in a "biscuit tin"
The Jaffa cake is officially a cake. It is deemed to be so because when it goes stale it goes hard, whereas a biscuit goes soft. That is actually a legal definition as it became necessary for it to be legally defined as one or the other, due to the different tax implications for cakes and biscuits
def biscit and so yummy
It's definitely a cake...there's no crunch in a jaffa cake and you can't have a biscuit without a good old crunch....that's why it's a Jaffa cake not a Jaffa biscuit :-)
It may look like a biscuit, or come in a biscuit-like packaging, but it is a cake.
It's neither one or the other, it is a cross between the two. Soft like cake and keeps well like a biscuit. It's more like the Dutch koekje or 'small cake' and that's where and why North Americans call biscuits cookies.
I had this same arguement with some of my friends and we eventually agreed that it is neither choc biscuit nor sponge cake, but sponge biscuit.
According to the packet I have got here they are CAKES - and that is according to the manufacturer.
Its a full moon, half moon, total eclips!