McVities Jaffa Cakes Triple Pack 30 366g

I saw on the History Channel a segment "Welcome to the Factory" where each segment features a Tour of another Factory in Britain showing how different UK Products are manufactured. A month or so ago, a segment on McVities Jaffa Cakes Desert Treats. These are a huge seller throughout Europe as well as in England. A semi-soft delicious Cookie with a Jaffa Orange (real, not imitation flavored US style) topped with a delicious coating of Premium Chocolate. For those unaware, combining Orange with Chocolate is absolutely insanely delicious . Chocolate Covered Orange Peel Candies, Droste Orange and Chocolate Candy Apple pre-sliced in Wedges wrapped in foil, etc. They arrived in perfect condition from the UK, packed in Cellophane 10 to a pac, a Best Use by Date 2 months forward and near impossible to locate here in US other than perhaps a Speciality British Products Store. Like Mickey told his Brother regarding Life Cereal, "Try It, You`ll Like It". You will very likely be re-ordering, I assure you.Updated ReviewAfter contacting Seller the immediately responded and informed me that I incorrectly read the Best Use By Date. 03 08 24 was actually Aug 03 34 (not) Mar 08, 24! My apologies. I was credited the cost of the cakes an will now request to be re-billed.

Everything looks good and tastes great! Just what I expected - 30 cookies in three stacks.

I love to share some JaffaCakes. HOWEVER, this shipment was disappointing because all of the cookies were squashed and broken up. The box of product was inside a bubble-wrap baggy which shipped in a plastic padded mailer bag- no match for the shipping industry. Please ship these in a corrugated box.

These are the real deal. My approximation is good too. Uses only three things. Vanilla wafers, Orange marmalade, and hearseys dark chocolate bars. (1) cook marmalade down by about 1/4 then cool overnight so it becomes a thick jello texture. roll into slabs and cut to 1/2 inch by maybe 1/4 inch tinck squares or little cut rounds, I use a carrot cutter, Put the glob on the flat side of the vanilla wafer, warm up the hearshy's bars over boiling water in a bowl or pot then using a small spoon drop enough chocolate on the top of the orange stuff to cover the bottom of the product Try not to go over the edge. Put on rack or keep on the rack they were on and let cool. That's it. Not the real deal but not bad either, and you can use different chocolate and jelly flavour to spice things up. I like apple myself but we have used all citrus, most stone fruits and berries. And dark dark to white chocolate. The nice thing is that with the vanilla wafer you don't have to bake anything. They won't be like these though These remind me of England.

My wife and I have always been into British television shows on BBC and elsewhere, and they often mention snacks from England that we've thought sounded good. James May has mentioned Jaffa Cakes on Top Gear many times, so we finally decided to try them. They are pretty good. Although the cookie/cake part was a bit dry. The chocolate coating and orange jelly more than made up for it. Many have commented that the ones they ordered were past their date, but even though they took a month to be delivered to the United States, they were still well under their date (late March, and we received them the first week of February) The only problem I had was the condition of the package. When I got them from the mailbox, it was crushed in on 3 corners. I thought they would be cookie crumbs. But they were fine, not a single cookie was broken. A good new British experience!

Wonderful memories of my youth. Perfect gift for an American friend. Not too sweet, perfect match with Prosecco, apparently.

I heard about these cookies watching the Yogscast like everyone else it seems and was excited to try them. The cookies themselves are a completely average junk food type of snack made out of cheap ingredients. The best way I can describe them is like a stale vanilla wafer (the cake isn't soft and moist but it's not crispy either) topped with an overwhelmingly fake tasting orange jelly (think citrus flavored Starbursts) and coated with a thin layer of chocolate. As a one off purchase to satisfy my curiosity they were well worth it but the cookies themselves are closer to gross than good, in my opinion.Ingredients:Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Plain Chocolate (19%) [Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Fat, Cocoa Butter, Butter Oil, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, E476), Natural Flavouring], Sugar, Wheat Flour, Whole Egg, Water, Dextrose Monohydrate, Concentrated Orange Juice (8% Orange Juice Equivalent_, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Oil, Humecant (glycerine), Citric Acid, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Emulsifier (E471), Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Dried Whole Egg, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Natural Orange Flavouring, Colour (Curcumin).CONTAINS: MILK, EGG, SOYA, GLUTEN.Shipping:For those in the US, these took 16 days to get here which was 22 days before delivery estimate given.

I love Jaffa cakes and they aren't available in Colorado. Aldi carries a copycat that is very good, but there's no Aldi in Colorado either. So with great trepidation I ordered these that came all the way from England, concerned that they would not be fresh or well packaged, but happily they were in excellent condition and as delicious as I remembered them.