Orange blossom jaffa cakes

Preparation info
  • Makes

    18

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Floral Baker: Cakes, Pastries and Breads

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

  • About

I once lived near the highly fragrant McVitie factory where Jaffa cakes have been made since the late 1920s and would hear stories from schoolfriends who took holiday jobs there and were allowed to eat all the biscuits they wanted. Jaffa cakes, of course, are not biscuits, but cakes, as decided by a court ruling in 1991 when the company won a case against Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise who wanted to charge Value Added Tax on them as biscuits. Surprisingly, the name is not a registered tra