View Full Version : Jaffa Cake -- Cake or Biscuit??
Arneldo
07-10-2006, 04:19 PM
Is the Jaffa Cake a Cake or a biscuit????
Okay, Yes it has Cake in the title but Animal biscuits arent made of Animals.
I think its a biscuit. My Friend thinks its a Cake.
I've asked alot of people and the vote does really seem to be 50/50.
There's only one way to settle it -- Let the members of TiBB Decide!
Jaffa Cake -- Cake or Biscuit? You Deicide!!!
Coming Soon : Kit-Kat - Biscuit or Choclate Bar? lol
stacey
07-10-2006, 04:20 PM
BISCUIT!
MarkWaldorf
07-10-2006, 04:21 PM
Cake
What a coincidence - this question was on the Reading Uni Student Union website, and I couldn't decide there either.
Erm, I don't think it's either, it's probably closer to a cake because it's called a Jaffa Cake though. :thumbs:
LittleMissC
07-10-2006, 04:29 PM
Ummm... neither hehe :spin2:
Sophii3x
07-10-2006, 04:54 PM
CAKE!
Sophii3x
07-10-2006, 04:55 PM
A buiscit is like a custard cream, anyway the word cake is in Jaffa cake
Sticks
07-10-2006, 04:58 PM
According to the VAT Tribunal they officially are cakes
Food and snack manufacturer McVities argued in 1991 that its Jaffa Cakes were not chocolate biscuits which do incur VAT, but cakes - which are exempt. The cakes were eventually declared VAT-free.
source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/72312.stm)
Apparently they proved this by making an oversized Jaffacake
Pipergun
07-10-2006, 05:00 PM
Cakes. :thumbs:
bonnie43uk
07-10-2006, 05:36 PM
its a buscuit ... if you think its a cake you are seriously deluding yourself!!
.. in our house, we slice a cake into quadrants , and share it out.. i've never seen anyone do that with a Jaffa cake.
Sticks
07-10-2006, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by bonnie43uk
its a buscuit ... if you think its a cake you are seriously deluding yourself!!
.. in our house, we slice a cake into quadrants , and share it out.. i've never seen anyone do that with a Jaffa cake.
But McVitties went to court over this, because money was at stake and it was officially ruled to be a cake. Are you calling a court of law deluded?
xGemmax
07-10-2006, 06:29 PM
It will always be a cake!!:hugesmile:
Chrizzle
07-10-2006, 06:52 PM
Definately a cake.
You say animal biscuits arent made of animals, but the title says 'biscuits' just like Jaffa Cakes says 'cake'
It has a cake filling anyway- no sign of a biscuit.
Ruth*Star
07-10-2006, 07:30 PM
Its a Cake. Why else would they call it a cake. if it was a buiscit, it would be called Jaffa Buiscit, so i'm saying cake.
Ollie!
07-10-2006, 07:50 PM
I think of them as biscuits but it seems that they're cakes. :puzzled:
Definitely cakes. When someone says biscuit, you assume it's going to be crunchy. Cakes are normally made with sponge. There is a sponge (or at least, sponge like) base to a jaffa cake. Cake is in the name. Plus, it has a filling like a cake would!
lily.
08-10-2006, 12:01 AM
Originally posted by bonnie43uk
.. in our house, we slice a cake into quadrants , and share it out.. i've never seen anyone do that with a Jaffa cake.
I have. I believe it was Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Elle McPherson & Jodie Kidd. They cut it into 4, and indulged themselves. *nods*
A bit random dontya think lol? I'd say cake, i got a friends whos obsessed with them.
Siouxsie
08-10-2006, 02:42 PM
cake its a sponge
Chrizzle
08-10-2006, 02:43 PM
I dont get why people are voting biscuit lol.
It just isnt a biscuit. Fact!
Hense the name 'jaffa cake'
lmao
LittleMissC
08-10-2006, 02:45 PM
I don't think it's a biscuit. It tastes like a cake
But it doesn't look like a cake :puzzled:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 06:00 PM
It's a biscuit.
It's so obvious :hello:
And you can't just say it's a cake cos of it's name, cos there's loads of things that are called things they arent, haha.
Bells
08-10-2006, 06:05 PM
I'd say it's a cake because of it's name, and it seems cakey.
A couple of us were having the same kind of talk the other day, but about Rice Krispie cakes! I mean yeah, they're not cakes, but we still call them cakes. It's just what we're used to. But it doesn't necessarily have to be a cake...you just...call it a cake.
I think I know what I mean. :puzzled:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 06:12 PM
Why would you dunk a cake in your tea/coffee? :wink:
CASE CLOSED :thumbs: Haha
Bells
08-10-2006, 06:15 PM
Do people actually do that?
I don’t…
Lauren
08-10-2006, 06:16 PM
Originally posted by ice_maiden02
Do people actually do that?
I don’t…
Some people dunk jaffa cakes in their tea/coffee :tongue: So they must be a biscuit cos it would be silly dunking a cake in there :hugesmile:
But I dont dunk anything in mine... ewww crumbs.
Sticks
08-10-2006, 06:18 PM
They are deemed cakes, because that was the finding of the VAT Excise tribunal in 1991 in the case of HM Customs and Excise versus McVitties.
xGemmax
08-10-2006, 06:50 PM
What weirdo would dunk their jaffa cake in tea? http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/c055.gif Jaffa cakes are cakes dammit - they do not have the texture of a biscuit - it doesnt matter if they are in the shape of a biscuit they are just not theyre even called Jaffa CAKES NOT Jaffa BISCUIT. Get it?:colour:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 06:52 PM
Haha, they dont have the texture of a cake at all :tongue:
They're all crumbly like a biscuit. You can't have a SLICE of a jaffa cake, can you?
Therefore, biscuit :joker:
xGemmax
08-10-2006, 06:55 PM
Nope sorry they might not have the EXACT texture of a cake but they are still more cake like than biscuit like. When you break a biscuit in half it snaps but if you break a jaffa cake it doesnt snap - it does more what a cake would do just crumbles:hugesmile:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 06:59 PM
The bottom half of it crumbles... the crumbly half of it. It's only held together "like" a cake cos of the orange jelly stuff - Since when have you had a cake thats had orange jelly in it?
Biscuitbiscuitbiscuit!! :laugh:
xGemmax
08-10-2006, 07:01 PM
CAKECAKECAKE!!!! LOL http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/a025.gif
Lauren
08-10-2006, 08:54 PM
...BISCUIT :bigsmile:
Chrizzle
08-10-2006, 08:58 PM
Originally posted by LaurenFah
Haha, they dont have the texture of a cake at all :tongue:
They're all crumbly like a biscuit. You can't have a SLICE of a jaffa cake, can you?
Therefore, biscuit :joker:
Its just not a biscuit lmao
Why the hell would they call it a cake if it was a biscuit Pmsl.
You dont slice ALL cakes.
Battenberg isnt a biscuit, is it???
xGemmax
08-10-2006, 09:03 PM
exactly lol:joker:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 09:27 PM
Originally posted by Chrizzle
Originally posted by LaurenFah
Haha, they dont have the texture of a cake at all :tongue:
They're all crumbly like a biscuit. You can't have a SLICE of a jaffa cake, can you?
Therefore, biscuit :joker:
Its just not a biscuit lmao
Why the hell would they call it a cake if it was a biscuit Pmsl.
You dont slice ALL cakes.
Battenberg isnt a biscuit, is it???
Pmsl, but a batternberg has a cakey texture :hugesmile: And you slice it into little mini batternberg squares, haha. :tongue:
Chrizzle
08-10-2006, 09:30 PM
Originally posted by LaurenFah
Originally posted by Chrizzle
Originally posted by LaurenFah
Haha, they dont have the texture of a cake at all :tongue:
They're all crumbly like a biscuit. You can't have a SLICE of a jaffa cake, can you?
Therefore, biscuit :joker:
Its just not a biscuit lmao
Why the hell would they call it a cake if it was a biscuit Pmsl.
You dont slice ALL cakes.
Battenberg isnt a biscuit, is it???
Pmsl, but a batternberg has a cakey texture :hugesmile: And you slice it into little mini batternberg squares, haha. :tongue:
Jaffa cake doesnt crumble though. It has a cakey texture aswell. with jaffa. Hense 'jaffa' 'cake'
People are forgetting that cake and biscuit arent just names they are actual genres of food, if you like.
A biscuit is a genre where it crumbles, and is actually made of ingredients of a BISCUIT. Not just something you dunk in tea.
Cake is a cakey, spongey centre and is made of ingredience of a cake. Not just something you slice and put candles on.
The name says 'cake' and the company have said its a 'cake' like Sticks explained.
*breathes*
Lauren
08-10-2006, 09:34 PM
Legally it's a cake...
Scientifically it's a biscuit
(Pmsl! HOW SAD: The article attempted to classify biscuits via a scientific analysis of various features (size, shape, filling etc.) and determined that the Jaffa Cake should be regarded as a biscuit, or 'pseudobiscuit'.)
Chrizzle
08-10-2006, 09:35 PM
But its just NOT a biscuit.
A biscuit is a Bourbon, crumbly, hard..
Jaffa CAKE is a cake.
This is stressing me out :joker:
xGemmax
08-10-2006, 09:36 PM
No, scientifically its a cake as it has the ingriedients of a cake:hugesmile:
Lauren
08-10-2006, 09:39 PM
Originally posted by jem_stone16
No, scientifically its a cake as it has the ingriedients of a cake:hugesmile:
How can you possibly standardise the ingredients of a cake? All the ingredients are different :hugesmile:
Diablo
08-10-2006, 10:21 PM
I call them biscuits cos I can eat about 3 or 4 of them with a cup of tea.. I can't eat 3 or 4 cakes at one time, (donuts, victoria sponge etc..)
They are in the biscuit section in the shops, cakes are in the bakery section
Siouxsie
08-10-2006, 10:39 PM
i hate them
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