When I were just a lad, Jaffa Cakes were IT! Yep, I used to get them in my lunchbox
Aah, that's nice! And today we're going to recreate them!
As you can see, very few ingredients, it's a very simple recipe. We've got flour
egg and sugar to make the sponge to our jaffa cakes
we've got orange jelly which we're going to enhance with orange juice as well
and chocolate
I can't tell you how excited I am that we're finally making jaffa cakes
I know... For the first time!
Now what we're going to do is crack 2 eggs and caster sugar into a bowl
We've got over a pan of simmering water
And whisk. Thank you! By using the machine it makes it a lot easier because you have to do it for a long time
We're looking for about 6-8 minutes
Until it's at a ribbon stage, and over simmering water partially cooks those eggs. In the meantime, Michael
We're going to do jelly
Ooo he called you Michael
You've been a bad boy... Water
into here
about three hundred ml along with orange jelly. Now obviously this is just pre-bought orange jelly
If you can break that up into there so it dissolves
What do jaffa cakes mean for you?
Well they're orange chocolate biscuits. Yeah but do you remember them growing up?
I used to have a tube of 3 that I used to have in my packed lunch when I was at primary school. I remember the advert when you got the 'full moon', 'half moon'
Total eclipse! These jaffa cakes are going to be huge because we're going to make them in muffin tins
So they are a much bigger size
We're also going to add extra orange flavour into our sponge
In the form of zest
And our orange juice goes into there as well, so it's really souped up orange jelly
and a souped up orange sponge
Souped up?
When does the soup go in?
As in super
Ah ok
It's so orangey!
I love fresh citrus fruits. So as soon as you're happy that all the jelly bits have dissolved
then pour it into a tray that's lined with cling film so you get a layer of jelly
That can be put into a fridge to set up. Now, speaking from experience, do that carefully
because you don't want to spill that everywhere
that's not the fridge Nope, but
here's some I made earlier
Ah, look... Mr Blue Peter
There we go, super jelly
that's just in sheet form
Will you stop saying the word 'super'? That's about the 5th time so far!
Pretty good jelly that's in sheet form
And now hopefully, there we go
nice, thick ribbon stage That took no time I knew you were going to do that What are you doing? Turn it off!
You're pushing it the wrong way! And now we can fold in our flour, so
you can see how much air is in there now, that just started off as 2 eggs and a bit of sugar
Now we can put in our flour, carefully fold it in
spoon this into muffin tins, I've just lightly greased them so it doesn't stick
and we literally need this much in each - just enough to cover the bottom
they will continue to rise in the oven
Jaffa Cakes aren't that thick, are they?
No, this should be the same consistency as a Jaffa Cake when you eat it
It's kind of a slightly chewy
soft
awesome sponge
Really light and fluffy
mmm doing a grand job there Ben
What we're doing is just demonstrating for the guys at home
how easy this is. This can go into an oven, Mike, 180 degrees Celcius
for 10 minutes... Jamie...
And then in the meantime we can melt some chocolate
come back, and finish our cakes of jaffa!
Ooo cakes of jaffa!
Now that our sponges have cooked, and had time to cool
We've just kind of eased around the edge to loosen them off
So that you end up with our sponge biscuit base but leave them in the muffin tins. Fantastic!
Now we can come to our jelly, which is obviously our middle layer... A little cutter
Just a little bit smaller
than the circles
and then we just cut out jelly
It really is that simple!
Do you want to put
one on each sponge, we should end up with something
that looks like that
I think that's the best part of a Jaffa Cake Look at that wobble!
Although it does drive me mad, have you seen Barry eat a Jaffa Cake? He nibbles all the chocolate off
Then all the cake, so you're left with all the jelly bit
That's how you eat Jaffa Cakes
If you read the back of a packet of Jaffa Cakes, in the instructions
It says
deconstruct the Jaffa Cake
I don't believe you...
I want to hear from you guys, how do you eat your Jaffa Cakes? Comment below in the comment box, I want to know exactly how you eat your jaffa cakes
and finally, perhaps the best part of the Jaffa Cake
Dark chocolate, and all you need to do is dribble loads of it on
and then ease it to the edge quite quickly before the jelly melts like so
You've even got the lump on top!
That's the jelly
Yeah, I know but that's what
That's what Jaffa Cakes look like! Yeah, these look like amazing jaffa cakes
except they are bigger and better
So we just whack these in a fridge straight after. Yeah you can leave them at room temperature, the chocolate will set
But we want to speed that up, it'll be even easier We'll put them in a fridge to setup.
Meanwhile
Fortunately we have some we've already done
and these ones have already set YES Lovely So we can scoop them out, and grab ourselves a plate
then just ease them out and I reckon we'll stack them up This is just one of many
desserts, cakes and biscuits
Isn't it Jamie? Do you know what, funnily enough it is. It's one of just many desserts, cakes and biscuits
we've done before
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It might be wobbly
but there is our ultimate Jaffa Cake stack
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Now we could just eat them straight away, or we could do this Aaw, I'm going to eat them straight away
Ok, that is a Jaffa Cake
It's pretty good! I think it's better than a Jaffa Cake You've got biscuit... Sorry, cake,
jelly, chocolate
Jaffa cake - what could go wrong?
You've got a half moon there!