Is a Jaffa cake a biscuit or a cake?

Answer 1

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It's a cake, and they won a legal battle to prove it. All to do with rationing after the war,and tax on biscuits, but not cake. Even now you dont pay any tax on a packet of Jaffa cakes! The winning legal line defining the difference between a biscuit and cake?...

A biscuit is hard when fresh, and soft when stale
A cake is soft when fresh and hard when stale.

Answer 2

Cake

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

biscake

Answer 5

good question. jaffa cakes are down the biscuit isle, but jaffa cake bars are in the cakes section. i guess somebody just can`t make their mind up. shall we call it a biscake?

Answer 6

its a cakscuit

lol

Answer 7

It is a wee little cake.

Answer 8

Im not really that bothered cos I bloody hate them!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Biscuit

Answer 10

Legally its a cake i believe but its found in the biscuit isle ? either way i love them.

Answer 11

I dont care what they are. They are soooooooooooooooo yummy mmmmmmmmm

Answer 12

i dont care they are yum

Answer 13

whatever it is they have got smaller and thinner over the years

Answer 14

It's a cake - it goes hard when stale

Answer 15

cake i think

Answer 16

cake!????

Answer 17

In a famous legal case against HM Customs & Excise, McVities established that Jaffa Cakes are cakes.

This is important because cakes and biscuits are food and therefore do not attract VAT.
However chocolate covered biscuits are classified as a luxury item and do attract VAT.

The VATman tried to claim Jaffa cakes were chocolate covered biscuits.
McVities baked a giant jaffa cake to prove it was a cake. They also made the distinction that cakes go hard when stale whereas biscuits go soft. - Jaffa cakes go hard.

Answer 18

cake thats because its called a jaffa CAKE can you c the point CAKE yea CAKE!!!! u dumb ****

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Answer 19

Jaffa cake is a cake, its got sponge in it, and its not crunchy like a biscuit.

Answer 20

it is a cake because it is a sponge, but have you wondered why the strawberry,blackberry,lime flavoured are still called jaffa cakes

Answer 21

The clue is in the name :)

Answer 22

Well if its got the word cake in then maybe it is a cake. if u have tried one then u would know that a biscuit crumbles and a cake is soft.

Answer 23

its a cake its base is sponge that's why there called jaffa cakes not jaffa biscuits

Answer 24

mmm cake..

Answer 25

I think its inbetween the base is spongy