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Jaffa Cakes are a cake introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common form of Jaffa cakes are circular, 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (54 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavoured jam and a coating of chocolate. Each cake is 46 calories.
It was viewed by 14,000 people and was wonderful publicity for the company. They received many commissions for royal wedding cakes and christening cakes. [22] In 1947, McVitie & Price made the principal wedding cake for Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten, which was served at the wedding breakfast. [39]
A number of Australian and New Zealand amateur sporting groups use Jaffa as a team name. In Dunedin , New Zealand, every year [ needs update ] a vast quantity of Jaffas is raced down Baldwin Street – the world's steepest residential street, according to the Guinness World Records [ 5 ] – as part of the Cadbury Chocolate carnival, which is ...
Jaffa was established in 1975, upon the initiative of several entrepreneurs from the area of Crvenka. [3] The following year, in 1976, production of Jaffa Cakes biscuits commenced, [4] having acquired the license from McVitie's. [5] In 1978, "Jaffa" biscuits as brand were legally protected in SFR Yugoslavia. [6]
Richardson was born in Edinburgh, the only son and eldest of three children of John Richardson (1909–1990), a manager at the McVitie & Price factory (where he and his wife met, and, according to his son, where John invented the Jaffa cake), and Margaret ("Peggy") Pollock (1910–1988), née Drummond. [1]
Thousands nibbled their way down La 1 at Thibodaux's second annual King Cake Festival.
Berliner — pastry from the city of Berlin; Black Forest cake or Black Forest gateau — not directly named after the Black Forest mountain range in southwestern Germany, but from the speciality liquor of that region, known as Schwarzwälder Kirsch(wasser) and distilled from tart cherries; Bremer Klaben — fruit cake from the city of Bremen
The 18-ounce cake, which combines “moist, flavorful cake with smooth vanilla buttercream frosting,” per the company, has some people calling it their “death row meal.”