cakes or biscuits

[helen79]

what is a jaffa cake????

[raysparx1]

I call it a biscuit and I can eat a whole packet on my own.

[crete]

without e mailing anyone at the same time ?

[dot.hawkes]

it is a sickly concoction that is full of e s and not the happy pill variety

[funkymoped]

cakes... they go hard when you leave them out of the box.

i once ate a box of Mr Kiplins excedingly good cakes !
:-)

[pie+mash]

There is a different tax I believe on cakes and biscuits, so probably although Jaffa cakes are usually in the biscuit section in a store (people treat them as a biscuit), the manufacturers have called them cakes to pay less tax.

There was a dispute on those ice-cream cone look-a-likes in the bakers (marshmallow/hundreds+thousands) because they were deemed to be confectionery (sweets)not cakes, and again heavier on the tax.

[pie+mash]

funky's right, when biscuits go orff, they go soft, when cakes go orff, they go hard...lol ;o)

[Hellion]

Jaffa Cakes are an essential food group - If I waswith Ray he's have to fight me for the whole packet!

[notfrom-oz]

I'm with funky and pie,i myself am in the baking profession and agree that cakes go hard,bikkies go soft

[helen79]

see i say cake and my mates always dissagree cos they are in the biscuit section of a supermarket!

[pie+mash]

Of course we must not forget our friends in the USA.,.

Biscuit - Cookie
Scone - Biscuit

[freak_unique]

They are biscakes :D

[Cetti]

McVities say cakes. Scroll down to the last post on this link:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuit s/search.php3

[RATTER15]

a Bun?

[pie+mash]

Blimey, cetti that website must have dabbled in Kerplunk's paint box!! lol

Can't agree about Nice biscuits though - I quite like them

If you want your biscuits crispier, take them out of the oven during cooking (about half way through) for a few minutes, then continue cooking...in effect I guess that's where the term twice baked/cooked (for biccies) comes from?

[NH]

They're cakes. It actually went to court because of VAT issues; McVities actually proved that it goes hard like a cake by making a giant one.

[Cetti]

Oh yes, the shades are a bit lively, aren't they pie+ mash? Hadn't noticed before.



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[.daydreamer.]

they're cakes even though supermarkets put them in the biscuit section 'cos if you look at the bottom half its all spongey and cake-like. and they are called jaffa CAKES
:-D

[robbo82]

I know someone who actually discussed this as part of a PhD thesis! He officially concluded that, as others have said, biscuits go soft when stale and cakes go hard when stale. Jaffa Cakes, which go hard, are therefore officially cakes.