{"id":915,"date":"2009-01-01T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/2009\/01\/jaffa-cakes-a-cake-or-biscuit.html"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:10:11","slug":"jaffa-cakes-cake-or-biscuit","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/jaffa-cakes-cake-or-biscuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Jaffa Cakes A Cake Or Biscuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought McVities Jaffa Cakes were a biscuit; they&rsquo;re biscuit shaped, look like biscuits and taste pretty biscuit-like too, but no, they&rsquo;re in fact cakes.\n</p><p>VAT is not charged on biscuits and cakes by <a title='\"Funny' laws in the uk href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/funny-laws-in-uk%5C/%5C%22">law, although VAT is charged on chocolate covered biscuits, like chocolate digestive&rsquo;s.\n<p>McVities, being the main Jaffa Cake producer stated that their Jaffa Cakes are actually cakes, which is why VAT isn&rsquo;t charged on them.\n</p><p>In 1991, this was challenged and the case was taken to court.\n</p><p>McVities defended their selves by producing a large Jaffa Cake to demonstrate that Jaffa Cakes were just mini cakes.\n</p><p>McVities explained that a main difference between biscuits and cakes is that biscuits go soft when they are stale, whereas cakes generally go solid.\n</p><p>It was proven that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale therefore being a cake.\n</p><p>The case was won and VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes.\n</p><p>Hmm, I wonder what pancakes are!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>I always thought McVities Jaffa Cakes were a biscuit; they&rsquo;re biscuit shaped, look like biscuits and taste pretty biscuit-like too, but no, they&rsquo;re in fact cakes. VAT is not charged on biscuits and cakes by law, although VAT is charged on chocolate covered biscuits, like chocolate digestive&rsquo;s. 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