Jaffa Cake Recipe - Real Recipes from Mums

Jaffa Cake is such an awesome sweet treat – ask anyone!

The original Jaffa Cake was made by McVities – those same biscuit connoisseurs who developed Digestives – in the 1920s, and were first introduced in the UK. The name Jaffa came not from the suburb in Tel-Aviv of the same name, but from Jaffa oranges which came from the Israeli region. Although they claimed the Jaffa oranges were used to flavour the first cakes, the first inventors also used apricot, sugar and tangerine oil into the sweet middle layer of orange jam. The debate still runs on whether the traditional McVities’ Jaffa Cake is truly a cake, or is a biscuit, but this recipe for Jaffa Cake is definitely the former. Around the world, over 1 BILLION traditional Jaffa Cakes are eaten every year.

The only trouble is that traditional Jaffa Cake recipes tend to be filled with sugar and really aren’t that nourishing.

Until now! You can have your cake and eat it too with this fibre-packed Jaffa Cake recipe developed by whole foods cookbook author Taline Gabrielian.

This Jaffa Cake contains Connect Foods Organic Fibremax to fire up your digestive and immune health, making it easier and tastier than ever to integrate fibre in your diet.

This delicious recipe is vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and ideal for detoxing ahead of the warmer months.

We love that Taline has given this Jaffa Cake a breakfast spin making it a delicious and nutritious option for breakfast. Now we don’t think anyone is going to be saying no to breakfast if it means a slice of THIS Jaffa Cake!

If you love the Jaffa flavour, there are loads of other choc orange inspired recipes in MoM Cookclub. Here are just a few:

Festive Choc Orange Balls (these ones are also healthy, nourishing and almost completely guilt-free)
Chocolate Jaffa Coconut Slice
Choc Jaffa Pudding

Ingredients (serves 8)

1 cup (100g) almond flour
1 cup (130g) buckwheat flour
8 medjool dates (pitted and soaked in hot water for 5 mins)
1 1⁄2 cup (360ml) canned coconut milk
1⁄4 cup cacao powder
1⁄2 cup (120ml) rice malt syrup
1⁄3 cup (80ml) melted coconut oil
2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp Connect Foods Organic Fibremax Chocolate + Probiotic (available at Woolworths and Chemist Warehouse nationwide)
1 tbsp vanilla
1⁄2 tbsp bicarb soda
1⁄2 tbsp salt
1⁄2 tbsp cinnamon powder
1 small avocado (pitted)
6-7 medjool dates (pitted and soaked in hot water for 5 mins)
1 tbsp Connect Foods Organic Fibremax Chocolate + Probiotic
1 tbsp cacao powder
1 tbsp rice malt
5 drops orange essential oil
Orange zest
Shaved chocolate
Botanicals (optional)

Method

Preheat oven to 175°C.
Add almond flour, buckwheat flour, cacao powder, Connect Foods Organic Fibremax Chocolate + Probiotic, baking powder, bicarb soda, salt and cinnamon to a food processor and pulse to combine.
Add pitted and soaked dates, coconut milk, vanilla, rice malt and coconut oil to the processor and whizz until combined.
Transfer mixture into an oiled loaf tin and bake for 40 - 45 mins or until risen, firm to touch and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
To make icing, place all ingredients in a high speed blender and pulse till smooth.
Top cooled cake with icing, zest, botanicals, and shaved chocolate.
Serve and store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge. The cake will keep for 2-3 days.

80 Comments

- - TraceyGail said
  - 30 Sep 2024
    8:40 pm
Lots of ingredients but sounds delicious.

- - Ellen said
  - 16 Jun 2024
    7:29 am
What a beautiful ingredients in this Jafa cake !
- Ellen replied
  
  16 Jun 2024 , 7:30 am
  I like it that it’s actually not filled with sugar and is nourishing indeed !
- - mom93821 said
  - 30 Oct 2023
    5:38 am
Jaffa cake is absolute joy!

- - Chelsea1905 said
  - 23 Jan 2023
    8:35 pm
I would love a slice of this delicious jaffa cake.. so many ingredients

- - mom89445 said
  - 01 Oct 2022
    2:16 pm
This looks and sounds delicious but wow the ingredients list is long and diverse. The redeeming thing is the method sounds pretty easy and straightforward so I think I’ll save this and give it a go – can’t beat choc and orange flavour together!

- - cassy26 said
  - 03 Jul 2022
    8:17 am
I love Jaffa flavour and there’s a lot of healthy ingredients in this cake…
- mom93821 replied
  
  31 Oct 2023 , 6:49 am
  I love jaffa flavour in cakes and biscuits.
- - smart_ass said
  - 31 May 2021
    4:26 pm
jaffa is my favourite!

- - mom112217 said
  - 03 Feb 2021
    5:36 pm
Your Jaffa cake looks moist and delicious. Thanks!

- - Frankiielot said
  - 03 Jan 2021
    7:54 pm
Wow! Looks and sounds amazing.
This must be the healthiest jaffa cake recipe I’ve seen.
Absolutely love jaffas as well but I never get through the whole bag so this would be something good to try.

- - mom460689 said
  - 24 Oct 2020
    9:58 pm
I love the use of buckwheat flour in this too. A lovely looking cake.

- - mom460223 said
  - 25 Sep 2020
    8:09 am
Think I just found my hubby’s new favourite.

- - Lovethecuddles said
  - 09 Sep 2020
    1:33 pm
I think I’ll give this one a miss too many ingredients

- - am1979amanda said
  - 26 Aug 2020
    2:53 pm
This looks so good an tasty thanks for the recipe

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 12 Aug 2020
    10:38 am
This looks good!

- - mom101628 said
  - 30 Jul 2020
    6:35 pm
Great recipe – thanks for sharing.

- - mom241861 said
  - 19 Jul 2020
    4:55 am
Looks like it’s Jaffa cake tomorrow. Xxx

- - Ellen said
  - 18 Jul 2020
    8:05 am
Beautiful ingredients which I mostly have at home, thanx for sharing !

- - tessie said
  - 16 Jul 2020
    2:55 pm
I’d love to try it but there’s just too many ingredients that I can’t get. I’ll have to miss out on this one but it does look very tasty

- - rovermum said
  - 16 Jul 2020
    9:46 am
Ooh, I love a bit of jaffa (orange) choc cake. This has many ingredients though, and many that I don’t have in my pantry. Would make it an expensive bake!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 16 Jul 2020
    9:01 am
I like the idea but that looks like a lot of hard work and expensive!