Biscuit - Orange - Chocolate or Chocolate - Orange - Biscuit? (Tesco Value Jaffa Cakes)

Member Name: sun-is-shining

Product:	Tesco Value Jaffa Cakes
Date:	28/06/09 (43 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good chocolate, great taste, cheap

Disadvantages: so much sugar and fat

In the highly unlikely case that you don't know what a Jaffa Cake is here's a short explanation: Jaffa Cakes like normal cakes consist of a layer of biscuit, a layer of fruit jelly and chocolate on top. Sounds fairly normal so far I hear you say? Yes, but now someone came and shrunk these cakes to cookie size - not to gain anything from that but purely to create a precedent and to confuse everyone! There's just no answer to the age old question 'is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit?'

And again, another shopping trip to Tesco, another sweet treat in my cupboard. Well, the Jaffa Cakes didn't stay there for long to be honest with you :-)

Other cheap versions of Jaffa Cakes were a bit disappointing - the worst were the cherry ones from ALDI - so I only reluctantly tried these; but for 60pence you cannot do much wrong.

Fortunately I was positively surprised; the Jaffa cakes were delicious with a tasty biscuit, a thick layer of orange jelly and topped with sweet chocolate.

They come in a cardboard box with the well known Tesco Value design. The box contains two separately packed boxes of each 12 Jaffa cakes. All the important nutrition info and ingredients list can be found on the back of the box.
*****

The Jaffa Cakes look like every other Jaffa cakes do - a thick layer of orange/brown biscuit which was really tasty and not too sweet. However, it did crumble a bit too easily for my taste. The layer of orange jelly is as always too thin, I'd be happy about a Jaffa cake with a 1 inch layer of jelly but this is unfortunately only a dream. The jelly is nice and sweet with a strong orange flavour and it's not sticky at all. I tried a cherry version once which was just horrible, it just didn't work as well as the orange with the biscuit and the chocolate.
The chocolate bit is my favourite, creamy milk chocolate that melts in your mouth.
Thinking about it, I guess I could live without the biscuit and just eat the orange jelly covered with chocolate - but again, that's just a dream!
*****

Looking at the nutrition info - of course after I finished the pack - I discovered that 1 single Jaffa Cake contains astonishing 44 calories. Admittedly that doesn't sound too bad but who can stop after one of these 'golden sponge with an orange flavoured centre half coated in plain chocolate'? I surely can not and finished the first of the two rows within a day.

Here is the rest of the nutrition information but to cut it short, it's a whole lot of sugar!

Protein - 0.6
Carbohydrate - 8.1
Fat - 1.1
Fibre - 0.2
*****

Would I buy the Tesco Value Jaffa Cakes again?

I'm not the biggest fan of Jaffa Cakes but when I'll have a craving for them again I'll buy the Tesco Value ones, why should I spend 1 pound for 12 when I can have 24 for only 60 pence?
They taste absolutely fine and I cannot taste any real difference between the Tesco and the McVities version; the Tesco ones are a bit sweeter but therefore the biscuit is tastier and the orange jelly is simply great.

For me it is clearly a 09 out of 10!
*****

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