Jaffa Cake -- Cake or Biscuit??
 

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

BISCUIT!

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:

Ummm... neither hehe :spin2:

CAKE!

A buiscit is like a custard cream, anyway the word cake is in Jaffa cake

According to the VAT Tribunal they officially are cakes


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Apparently they proved this by making an oversized Jaffacake

Cakes. :thumbs:

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?

It will always be a cake!!:hugesmile:

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.

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.

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!

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.

cake its a sponge

I dont get why people are voting biscuit lol.
It just isnt a biscuit. Fact!

Hense the name 'jaffa cake'
lmao

I don't think it's a biscuit. It tastes like a cake
But it doesn't look like a cake :puzzled:

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.

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:

Why would you dunk a cake in your tea/coffee? :wink:

CASE CLOSED :thumbs: Haha

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.

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.

What weirdo would dunk their jaffa cake in tea? http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/s...onfus/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:

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:

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:

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:

CAKECAKECAKE!!!! LOL http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/s...onfus/a025.gif

...BISCUIT :bigsmile:

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???

exactly lol:joker:

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*

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'.)

But its just NOT a biscuit.
A biscuit is a Bourbon, crumbly, hard..

Jaffa CAKE is a cake.
This is stressing me out :joker:

No, scientifically its a cake as it has the ingriedients of a cake:hugesmile: