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dfw844

JAFFA ALERT, JAFFA ALERT!!!

I'm on the 'live on £4000 a year challenge', and was just catching up there. Some lovely kind person has posted a recipe for... wait for it... a giant jaffa cake!

Thought you lot would like to be among the first to know. I can't do links... but look for the 'live on £4000 a year challenge - part two'.

xx

ampersand

Here it is:
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Giant Jaffa Recipe
I cheated and looked on the world wide web for the recipe;


Ingredients

6 egg
12 ounces self-raising flour
12 ounces caster sugar
12 ounces unsalted butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 (6 ounce) packets orange flavor gelatin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 orange, juice of
150 g milk chocolate, approximately
Directions

1. 1
   
   Preheat oven to 350º F.
2. 2
   
   Cream together butter and sugar, and then add eggs, baking powder and flour.
3. 3
   
   Grease large frying pan. Make sure the pan has NO plastic bits or anything that might melt if it gets to 350º F, which it will (the pan is going in the oven in a moment!).
4. 4
   
   Pour mix in to pan, and put the whole shebang in the oven. Take it out when the middle is not liquidy (use a toothpick or cake tester; poke the cake all the way through, pull it out, and see if it's gooey. If it is, it's not done.) It'll take about 10-15 minutes. It rises quite a lot so be careful about overflow!
5. 5
   
   In the meantime, mix up the jello BUT use as much boiling water for BOTH packets as the packet says to use for ONE. It makes it a bit more solid. Add the juice of one orange, fresh-squeezed, to sort of compensate, and make it extra good. If you don't have oranges on hand, Tropicana or some from-concentrate stuff works okay too. Guess how much you get from a normal orange, and put that much inches.
6. 6
   
   Now put that jello mix in the largest plate you can find, or a non-stick frying pan (don't grease one; that's nasty!). You want a large PANCAKE of jello. Place in fridge and allow to set for however long that takes (less long than normal because you used less water and because the surface area is so high).
7. 7
   
   Now wriggle both the cake and the jello out of their containers, and put the cake on a large piece of waxed paper. Place the jello-slab on top of the cake, ideally in the middle.
8. 8
   
   Melt the chocolate however you normally melt it. Microwave might work. Allow chocolate to cool a bit, but not solidify.
9. 9
   
   Using a brush or spoon, begin to coat the whole thing in chocolate. Start at the outer edges; the jello tends to melt in the heat of the chocolate, and work towards the middle.
10. 10
    
    You can even do the Jaffa cake pattern: five parallel grooves, and five parallel ridges perpendicular to the grooves.

(SOURCE: http://www.recipezaar.com/222471)

After that, read the Pimp That Snack post which follows.
I'm sure it can be done without top-of-range ingredients, too - I doubt that biccie manufacturers are using them.

hypno06

A giant jaffa cake!!!!

**hypno runs away from pania's thread for fear of being tempted to break her diet**

pania

gaaaaah! booger!!!! do they do vegetarian gelatine!!!! eek!!!!!

*Pania runs away from her own thread in fear of breaking her 17 years of vegetarianism!!!!*

thanks dfw (and ampersand) thats fab. xxx

pania

ISOM the skype headsets have 2 plug in bits at the end, one for the microphone and one for the heary bit. if it says compatible with skype or something on it then you'll be fine. was lovely chatting last night, think you'll find there are lots of people you know on skype. my dad is able to hunt me down easily now!!! so it makes sense to have it. not sure how much skype to other phones costs but skype to skype is fweeee!!!!

So today in other news.....

car exhaust checked by garage, the part that has gone wrong is the part fitted by rip off horrible bloomin garage over the road... that has a 2 year gaurantee on it!!! so I had great pleasure in visiting said rip off garage and asking them, (politely) kindly replace it for me FREE OF CHARGE!!!!!!!!

also by following snaggles cheeky suggestion, they guy has knocked £18.75 off the cost of fitting my brake pads and discs for me, charging me only £40 for 2 hours labour!!!

so not only have i now got a free exhaust I save £18.75 to the bargain! woo!!!

working today for the morning, boo. have a good day everyone, what a nice thought to think that we are off tomorrow also.!!!

taka

:T Thats good going on the car front :T

Oh and yes you get veggie jelly... try a healthfood shop... not that I'm encouraging you mind... :rotfl: Just follow the instructions to the letter as otherwise it doesn't necessarily set properly... not that I've ever found that out the hard way you understand... :rotfl:

pania

damn it now i don't even have that excuse not to!!!!! thanks taka, so tell us about this mishap then....

In_Search_Of_Me

oo well done re the car! Kick a@@ baby!! Yeah! Dont you just lurve being a DFW! The more time goes on the more excited I get about saving money & cheating the system andnot buying into the must have it all mentality! Good luck with work - hope you make lots of lovely dosh!! Hopefully chat on skyle when you can - I'll be in tonight & do want to chek it works! Have sent mum out to get a headset! Bargain at tesco for under a fiver!

redsquirrel80

Morning all... ooh giant jaffa cake! Glad to hear you've managed to get garage bill down, nice work :cool:

I've got a headset thingy that my mum gave me as she uses some sort of online phone thing but not sure if it's Skype, will have to investigate.

Have a nice day P and don't work too hard!

In_Search_Of_Me

RS I think if its a phone that plugs into the PC you should be ok. Thats all my mr t one was but I didnt upload the mr t disk but did skyle instead! HTH!