I am going to Spain soon to stay with some New Zealand friends that are staying out there, I promised their children that I would take them some typical British treats for them to try. So here I am racking my brains trying what to think what are 'British treats'.
So far this is what I have come up with.....
These delicious little morsels of joy are one of my favourites, with their hard shell that is quite like no other and the delicious chocolate inside, I am drooling right now just thinking about them!
Named after the Jaffa flavoured jam inside with a chocolate covering, there is some controversy as to whether they are actually cakes or biscuits.
In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes. McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits. McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and allegedly produced a giant Jaffa cake in court to illustrate its point. The court found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that the product should be considered a cake, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa cakes in the United Kingdom.
In Ireland, Jaffa cakes are regarded as cakes by Revenue as their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016).
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
A Bakewell Tart is made of shortcrust pastry with layers of jam and frangipane, it could be named after Bakewell in Derbyshire, although there is no evidence that it originated there. It just looks sooo fantastic!
Originally only made to be sold around Easter time, these can now be bought all year round. They have a thick outer chocolate shell and white and orange fondant filling. There advertising slogan is 'How do you eat yours?'
Well they will either love it or hate it!!
If you can think of some other typical British treats that are hard to get hold of outside of the UK I would be grateful, list your thoughts below........
