Are Jaffa cakes a cake or a biscuit?

Cher_Alumni
Cher_Alumni Championing
in Coffee lounge
Another debate in the Scope office that we need your help with.  What do you think Jaffa cakes are?

Are Jaffa cakes a cake or a biscuit? 15 votes

Obviously cakes
46%
poppy123456leeCalexdvrOverlyAnxious66MustangRobert46mummy2CPbaby 7 votes
Clearly biscuits
40%
Chloe_Alumni[Deleted User]janer1967chiariedsCher_AlumniRoss_Alumni 6 votes
Neither
13%
alex72GrandmaRosy 2 votes

Comments

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Championing
    edited September 2020
    Obviously cakes
    I believe that they went to great effort to prove that they were cakes. The tax authority tried to class them as biscuits so they could have VAT attached to them - cakes were exempt from VAT and biscuits did have VAT. So the company baked a huge one to show that they were cakes.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Championing
    edited September 2020
    Obviously cakes
    Here is a clip on QI, where I heard about this from

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPyJPuY5xYA
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Championing
    Clearly biscuits
    Ahhh nice insight @66Mustang

    To me they are biscuits! 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Championing
    Obviously cakes
    The clue is in the name, Jaffa ...cakes.
  • mummy2CPbaby
    mummy2CPbaby Connected
    Obviously cakes
    Going with cake but saying that you find them where the biscuits are 
  • roberttaylor570
    roberttaylor570 Empowering
    Cake. But as others have said they are mixed with buiscuits when served at functions like coffee mornings.
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Championing
    Clearly biscuits
    Nice to see that team cakes is winning :) 
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Championing
    Clearly biscuits
    Now this is controversial! I would have to call it a biscuit because of its size.
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Championing
    Obviously cakes
    They identify as cakes!  This isn't a PIP assessment, we don't have to make assumptions based on their visible size and shape...   :)

    They're made of Genoise sponge for any bakers on here!  It's a fatless sponge (yes sponge, definitely not biscuit!) where you fold whisked egg-white into it to provide volume, rather than adding baking powder or the like.  They're surprisingly low calorie, so a good alternative to biscuits if you're trying to cut down.  Unless you eat the whole pack of course!  :D
  • leeCal
    leeCal Championing
    Obviously cakes
    Great post @OverlyAnxious !
  • GrandmaRosy
    GrandmaRosy Listener
    Neither
    Neither they are disgusting
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Championing
    Clearly biscuits
    Good to see that Nicola Sturgeon agrees Jaffa cakes are biscuits!  Read more in this Evening Standard article  :D  
  • alex72
    alex72 Connected
    Neither
    who cares what they are they yummy :)
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Championing
    Obviously cakes
    They are soft so clearly cakes. Yummy too but not slimming world friendly :(
  • alex72
    alex72 Connected
    Neither
    luckily i dont have that problem i have been known to eat a couple of packets in one sitting poppy :)

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