Jaffa cakes!
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sabotabbyI made vegan Jaffa cakes! Now, this was a challenge as:
1) I have never eaten a regular Jaffa cake and only know about them because of British telly shows;
2) I'm not sure I would even like them, as orange + chocolate is not my favourite flavour combination; and
3) All of the recipe measurements were in British.
This said, I think they turned out well, though I reserve the right to test them on an actual British person tomorrow. At least, they are composed of bits that are individually tasty, they are structurally sound, and they look like the picture on the recipe.
Here is the recipe. It is pretty easy, actually, but here are some PROTIPS:
1) Buy yourself an actual orange to do the orange zest. Do not assume that the peels of the last two satsumas that you ate for lunch are an adequate substitute. I mean, yes, the zest smells and presumably tastes the same, but did you know that it's really easy to grate off your fingertips because the peel is thinner? Well, it is!
2) I did not use self-rising flour as I don't think that's a thing that exists here. So here is how to make your own. Also I don't know what fine-cut marmalade is; they only had thick-cut and not-at-all-specific-about-the-cut marmalade in the store, so I bought the non-specific one.
3) Here is a site to convert British to North American measurements.
4) The cakes rise towards the centre so you have to saw off the top of it to make them flat. Also, I wasn't sure how much batter to put in each cakehole, so I just evenly divided it amongst the 12. You should probably use multiple bun trays and use less batter than I did to get more, and flatter, cakes. Also spread it around a bit to make it smoother on top, that way you end up with less excess cake.
5) If you put something like wax paper or a tray under the wire rack when you put the marmalade and chocolate on, you can save yourself a lot of really irritating and messy clean-up. Both are drippy things that you don't want to be wiping off your counter all day.
1) I have never eaten a regular Jaffa cake and only know about them because of British telly shows;
2) I'm not sure I would even like them, as orange + chocolate is not my favourite flavour combination; and
3) All of the recipe measurements were in British.
This said, I think they turned out well, though I reserve the right to test them on an actual British person tomorrow. At least, they are composed of bits that are individually tasty, they are structurally sound, and they look like the picture on the recipe.
Here is the recipe. It is pretty easy, actually, but here are some PROTIPS:
1) Buy yourself an actual orange to do the orange zest. Do not assume that the peels of the last two satsumas that you ate for lunch are an adequate substitute. I mean, yes, the zest smells and presumably tastes the same, but did you know that it's really easy to grate off your fingertips because the peel is thinner? Well, it is!
2) I did not use self-rising flour as I don't think that's a thing that exists here. So here is how to make your own. Also I don't know what fine-cut marmalade is; they only had thick-cut and not-at-all-specific-about-the-cut marmalade in the store, so I bought the non-specific one.
3) Here is a site to convert British to North American measurements.
4) The cakes rise towards the centre so you have to saw off the top of it to make them flat. Also, I wasn't sure how much batter to put in each cakehole, so I just evenly divided it amongst the 12. You should probably use multiple bun trays and use less batter than I did to get more, and flatter, cakes. Also spread it around a bit to make it smoother on top, that way you end up with less excess cake.
5) If you put something like wax paper or a tray under the wire rack when you put the marmalade and chocolate on, you can save yourself a lot of really irritating and messy clean-up. Both are drippy things that you don't want to be wiping off your counter all day.
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