McVitie's Jaffa Cakes The Original Ultra Box - 180 Cakes -

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McVitie's launches limited edition Strawberry-flavoured Jaffa Cakes". Talkingretail.com. 27 April 2009 . Retrieved 22 June 2010. The gelatine should never boil- we always add gelatine when the mixture isn't boiling. Remove from the heat, then stir in the gelatine powder. a b Harry Wallop (6 May 2012). "Jaffa Cakes - definitely not biscuits - prepare to take on imitators". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012 . Retrieved 3 January 2013. Chabo, Elena (5 January 2021). "McVitie's has launched new Jaffa Cake flavours Passionfruit and Cherry". Good Housekeeping . Retrieved 27 January 2021.

The Irish Revenue Commissioners also regard Jaffa Cakes as cakes, since their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016 [update]). [24] Lovers of the treat will know the controversial history and origins of debate when McVitie's was taken to court over its classification of the Jaffa Cake as a cake to avoid VAT on chocolate-covered biscuits. They even produced a giant version to illustrate their argument. In 2021, artificially intelligent binary classifiers "usually used in the field of astronomy" were trained on 92 traditional recipes of cakes and biscuits and determined Jaffa Cakes to be cakes. [25] Advertising Cake would be expected to be soft and friable; biscuit would be expected to be crisp and able to be snapped. Jaffa cakes had the texture of sponge cake.Pladis launches new Jaffa Cakes raspberry flavour". .foodbev.com. 21 October 2023 . Retrieved 18 August 2023. The court was adjudicated by Mr Donald Potter QC, who found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that whilst Jaffa Cakes had characteristics of both cakes and biscuits, the product should be considered a cake and not a biscuit, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes in the United Kingdom. [16] [22] [23] Graves, Mark; Batchelor, Bruce (2003). Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products. Springer Science & Business Media. p.403. ISBN 978-1-85233-525-0.

What's not to love? The tangy Jaffa Cake has always been my go to in my weekly shop and most likely isn't going to change anytime soon.These are the latest examples of “shrinkflation”, a phenomenon whereby manufacturers reduce the size of products ranging from chocolate bars to fruit juice and even toilet roll but consumers still pay the same price. Notable examples include Toblerone spacing out its signature triangles and Mars shrinking its sharing bags of Maltesers by 15%. Jaffa Cake's lemon squeezy bar". Thegrocer.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011 . Retrieved 25 August 2010.