• Question: is a Jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit

    Asked by David Potter to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 6 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      I’m going with cake the size of a biscuit. Come on – the base is clearly sponge! I think biscuits are more crunchy/breakable.

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      They are called a cake and they are spongey so i would say cake. Some people think they are really a biscuit because people eat them instead of other types of biscuit with coffee or tea. Legally they are a cake – this was decided in 1991. In the UK there is less tax to pay on chocolate covered cakes than on chocolate covered biscuits, so this is quite important. I will now enjoy a small cake.

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      They are a cake because cakes go hard when left out and biscuits go soggy. Personally I never leave any cakes or biscuits long enough to test this theory but I have had many an argument with friends over this and this is what we settled with!

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      I’d say its a fusion of the two! Very nice Biscake!

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      A cake surely, it must be a cake. Just a miniature one at it.

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