What to do with 5 boxes of Jaffa cakes (besides eat them all)

December 29, 2010 6:48 AM

What should I do with 60 Jaffa Cakes?

My dear beau surprised me with a "yard of Jaffa Cakes" (not affiliated) for Christmas - which is great, because I love Jaffa Cakes, but I'm at a loss for what to do with them.

I have googled around, but it's difficult sorting through the noise of recipes for Jaffa Cakes or Jaffa-Cake-inspired recipes, rather than recipes featuring the cakes.

Non-food suggestions are also welcome. Bonus points for creativity.

posted by Gordafarin to Food & Drink (12 answers total)

stick them together with a generous layer of Nutella, making as many layers as will fit into your mouth vertically, and eat washed down with a bottle of Baileys.
Regret is for the weak.
posted by runincircles at 6:54 AM on December 29, 2010 [12 favorites]

Use a syringe to inject the jaffa cakes with alcohol of your choice. Have a party.
posted by emilyw at 6:58 AM on December 29, 2010

Best answer: Every time I've had an abundance of sweet, delicious starch (cake, cinnamon buns and the like), I've done the following:

- Let it go slightly stale
- Crunch it up and put it in a well-greased aluminum pan
- Improvise an egg-heavy uncooked custard (whisk together some high-fat milk and/or cream with at least two eggs per cup of liquid, some vanilla, a little sugar, a smidge of salt, etc.)
- Pour the liquid over the bed of starch and bake low 'n slow to make an awsome, unique bread pudding!
posted by julthumbscrew at 6:59 AM on December 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Allow them to go stale. Make up some orange jelly and some dark chocolate custard and use them to make jaffa trifle. Top with chocolate shavings and those little orange wedge sweetie cake decorations.
posted by emilyw at 7:04 AM on December 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

You love them yet you haven't eat them yet?!
posted by turkeyphant at 7:06 AM on December 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Mrs Mutant loves those and yes, I grabbed her a yard of Jaffa Cakes as well.

About the only recipe I've come up with that uses Jaffa Cakes is a milkshake. You'll need a blender but you should be good with an average kitchen machine (at least the ones sold here in the UK are capable of grinding up a Jaffa Cake). Add three or four to your basic milkshake and you can drink your Jaffa Cakes.

I haven't seen Jaffa flavoured milkshakes much (at all?) in London, but I spent a fair amount of time out of the coast (Bournemouth) and they're pretty common there.
posted by Mutant at 7:10 AM on December 29, 2010

Take them to work and hand them out to everybody.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:36 AM on December 29, 2010

I'm not familiar with Jaffa cakes, but when I Googled them they looked like they could make a really interesting base for Tiramisu (instead of Lady Fingers.)
posted by TooFewShoes at 7:41 AM on December 29, 2010

I would question that you truly love Jaffa Cakes if you can't polish off a yard of them in, oh, say, 10 minutes.

Anyway, Jaffa Cake trifle: 1, 2 (scroll down)
posted by MuffinMan at 7:42 AM on December 29, 2010 [4 favorites]

Also, homemade ice cream is great with cookie pieces. You could use them for that too!
posted by TooFewShoes at 8:13 AM on December 29, 2010

Not being familiar with Jaffa cakes, I did a little google, a little calculating, and figured out that 60 Jaffa cakes is roughly equal in caloric content to a dozen original glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Now, polishing off 12 doughnuts might take me slightly longer than 10 minutes, but it doesn't seem like an especially daunting task.
posted by MrMoonPie at 8:14 AM on December 29, 2010

Response by poster: Oh hey, this thread is still open. Guess I'll follow up!
I made Jaffa trifle and it was amazing. A++ would devour again. Definitely going to make it again in the future.
posted by Gordafarin at 1:58 AM on September 17, 2011 [1 favorite]