Q 01/05

Which rich chocolate cake with apricot jam and a chocolate glaze originated in Vienna?

A) Black Forest Cake

B) Sachertorte

C) Dobos Torte

D) Linzer Torte

Answer · why

B) Sachertorte

By one account a 16-year-old apprentice named Franz Sacher created it in 1832 for Prince Metternich; today Vienna's Hotel Sacher and the Demel pastry ...

Q 02/05

Which plain McVitie's biscuit, developed in Yorkshire as a between-courses snack, is prized for dunking?

A) Rich Tea

B) Hobnob

C) Digestive

D) Jaffa Cake

Answer · why

A) Rich Tea

Originally called Tea Biscuits, they were made for the 19th-century upper classes; the sweet, malty recipe holds together in a hot drink better than m...

Q 03/05

Which cereal-derived baking ingredient provides the primary structure of cakes and biscuits?

A) Sugar

B) Butter

C) Flour

D) Eggs

Answer · why

C) Flour

Flour, typically wheat flour, contains proteins that form gluten when mixed with liquid, providing the essential structure and elasticity to baked goo...

Q 04/05

What did McVitie's tell a 1991 VAT tribunal a Jaffa Cake does when stale, proving it is a cake, not a biscuit?

A) It goes soft, not hard

B) It loses its glaze

C) It goes hard, not soft

D) It shrinks in size

Answer · why

C) It goes hard, not soft

The tribunal agreed, which mattered because chocolate-covered biscuits attract VAT in the UK and cakes do not; McVitie's even baked a 12-inch Jaffa Ca...

Q 05/05

Which teatime baked good likely takes its name from the Gaelic 'sgonn', meaning a large lump?

A) Muffin

B) Scone

C) Crumpet

D) Bap

Answer · why

B) Scone

The word first appears in Gavin Douglas's 1513 translation of the Aeneid, and Britons still argue over whether it rhymes with 'gone' or 'bone'.