Jaffa Cakes

Chairing a meeting tomorrow where the rotating chair is responsible for bringing biscuits. So I thought I'd try a cheeky recipe from Homemade Memories book my lovely little mum gave me for my birthday.

How hard can a Jaffa cake be?!

I made the little cake biscuit things last night - dead easy. Then for the orange jelly. Note - I have never made jelly from scratch before. It is tricky. But also oh so simple! I was one orange half away from the full quantity of juice when I got distracted and knocked the whole jug flying. Typical! Fortunately I was a little baking psychic and bought shed loads of oranges.

I also have a slightly orange jelly-ish shelf in the fridge where I spilt it. Tonight was tackling construction...theoretically simple. How the effing jeff do you get a thin layer of jelly off a cling film lined baking tray?! Not the neatest orange jelly circles in the world but they'll do the trick...





A little not so beautifully tempered chocolate later (Mary Berry avert your eyes) and I've got some slightly wobbly looking homemade Jaffa cakes.





Fingers crossed they set ok and people like them!