Jaffa Cakes
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Jaffa Cakes

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Serves 1 - 30 Biscuits

Every Saturday my fiancee's family is coming around for tea so this week I've decided to make something easy and delicious.

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Ingredients

  • - 2 eggs
  • - 4 tbsp of sugar
  • - apricot jam
  • - 60g flour
  • - vanilla essence
  • - one chocolate for decorating
  • - one tbsp of butter

Method

    1. Separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until stiff, add the sugar then the egg yolks one by one and mix well.
    2. Add the flour and mix with a wooden spoon until you get a light dough.
    3. When the dough is ready form the biscuits with a spoon or a piping bag and put them on a tray with greaseproof paper. Put them in the oven at gas 5/180C for 5-7 minutes.
    4. In the meantime melt the chocolate with the butter.
    5. When the biscuits are done take them out of the oven and put them on a grill on top of a sheet of grease proof paper. Put half of tablespoon of apricot jam on every biscuit.
    6. Coat the biscuits in chocolate.
    7. Put them in the fridge for at least an hour or until the chocolate sets. ENJOY!!!
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cookwithanna
29th Mar, 2012
Laura indeed they are made with orange but I thought I'll try something different, as I don't like orange marmalade. It really works, mine disappeared in record time.
laurabartolo
26th Mar, 2012
Thought Jaffa Cakes are meant to be filled with orange?
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