McVitie's Jaffa Cakes Pole, 488g

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The sponge? Light as air and was like eating a bouncy cloud. The chocolate? Smooth and evenly coated. The orange jelly? Delightfully tangy and left a little zing in the mouth. We understand there are online independent retailers who are misleading consumers by selling McVitie’s products with incorrect information. When Jaffa Cakes go stale, they harden, like any other cake. When biscuits go stale, they get soft.

Divide between the muffin tin holes, making sure you don’t fill them completely, then bake for about 8 minutes until lightly golden and set. Leave to cool completely. Also, if you didn't whisper "full moon, half moon, total eclipse" with each one because of THAT advert, then you are doing it all wrong. I am doing a persuasive talk in school and I have chosen to persuade people that a Jaffa Cake is a CAKE and not a biscuit. Any pointers? Categorisation of Jaffa Cakes as a chocolate-covered cake rather than a chocolate-covered biscuit was the subject of a famous tribunal in 1991 after McVitie’s argued it was a cake and VAT therefore did not have to be paid on it.

There have been two conflicting identities centered around the classification of Jaffa Cakes for tax purposes.

I think Jaffa cakes are biscuits because you eat them with your fingers and cakes you eat with a fork

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A thorough assessment of Jaffa Cakes followed as the route to resolve the conflict. They considered the following aspects of the cakes: