Author Topic: Are Jaffa cakes a Biscuit or a Cake?!! (Read 21756 times)

aveit101 · « **on:** October 05, 2004, 12:26:05 pm »

I dont think anyone but the orangey bit knows!!

aveit101 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 05, 2004, 12:26:33 pm »

Wot do u lot think

chocolate chick · « **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2004, 01:06:18 pm »

I think of them more as a biscuit than a cake.

« **Reply #3 on:** October 05, 2004, 01:07:19 pm »

There's no way a jaffa cake is a biscuit. It's too soft and has the wrong texture. It has some qualities of a cake, but really it belongs in it's own genre - Jaffa Cakes et al.

« **Reply #4 on:** October 05, 2004, 04:01:49 pm »

We fought the EU and WE won-cake.

lemoneye · « **Reply #5 on:** October 06, 2004, 09:35:58 am »

I would say biscuit personally, due to my own habits and when and how i would eat them. Not because i am bound to any written definitions...

chocolate chick · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2004, 10:13:21 am »

Yes thats how I look at it. I can see why its called Jaffa 'cake' but I eat them like biscuits

aveit101 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2004, 12:10:30 pm »

Some very good points

« **Reply #8 on:** October 06, 2004, 08:25:14 pm »

Cake: A sweet, baked confection usually containing flour, sugar, flavouring ingredient, eggs and baking powder or baking soda.

Biscuit: A sweet, normaly hard baked 'bread' of flour, butter milk, baking powder and a shortening agent.

It seems from looking at several recipes, biscuits may or may not contain eggs, whereas cake is rarely is devoid of them.

Can someone check the box of jaffa cakes to illuminate this point as that may clinch it.

Incidentally biscuit is from the French bis cuit 'cooked twice'.

oldspice · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2004, 10:17:56 pm »

I call it a biscuit - and so do the grocery trade because they stock them in the biscuit section.

« **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2004, 09:24:43 am »

In my sainsbury's they put honey next to marmalade. But they are not the same.

lemoneye · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2004, 09:52:12 am »

I will reiterate my point over dictionary definitions.

I know in the film, The Revenge Of The Nerds, that the "nerds" the bookwormy, dictionary definition brigade won the day...

BH - did you get bullied as a child?

chocolate chick · « **Reply #12 on:** October 07, 2004, 09:57:12 am »

I tell you what I would like to see.....a bigger version of the jaffa cake so it would be like a cake!

Has anyone seen those tiny jaffa cakes?

lemoneye · « **Reply #13 on:** October 07, 2004, 10:12:07 am »

And what about Kendall Mint CAKE?

Is that really a cake??

What about SHAMPOO? Or would you prefer REAL poo?

Some things do not bear too close an examination...

« **Reply #14 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:01:15 pm »

Lemoneye, I work with lots of people like you. Those that don't think anything really matters. Any detail sends their eyes glazed.

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