Are Jaffa cakes a cake or a biscuit?
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Another debate in the Scope office that we need your help with. What do you think Jaffa cakes are?
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Are Jaffa cakes a cake or a biscuit? 15 votes
Obviously cakes
46%
7 votes
Clearly biscuits
40%
6 votes
Neither
13%
2 votes
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Obviously cakesI 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.
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Obviously cakesHere is a clip on QI, where I heard about this from
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPyJPuY5xYA
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Obviously cakesThe clue is in the name, Jaffa ...cakes.
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Obviously cakesGoing with cake but saying that you find them where the biscuits are
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Cake. But as others have said they are mixed with buiscuits when served at functions like coffee mornings.
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Clearly biscuitsNice to see that team cakes is winning
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Clearly biscuitsNow this is controversial! I would have to call it a biscuit because of its size.Scope
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Obviously cakesThey 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!
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Obviously cakesGreat post @OverlyAnxious !
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NeitherNeither they are disgusting
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Clearly biscuitsGood to see that Nicola Sturgeon agrees Jaffa cakes are biscuits! Read more in this Evening Standard article Online Community Co-ordinator
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Neitherwho cares what they are they yummy
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Obviously cakesThey are soft so clearly cakes. Yummy too but not slimming world friendly
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Neitherluckily i dont have that problem i have been known to eat a couple of packets in one sitting poppy
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