WHY BOTHER...

... attempting to make jaffa cakes, when McVities already make perfectly good ones? This is the question I am asking myself, having spent an abortive morning in the kitchen cutting sponge cake into discs, making a vast quantity of very gloopy orange jelly and covering every surface and utensil (and myself) in dark melted chocolate. End result? tastes like a jaffa cake, but looks a right mess. Will I bother again? Hmmm, let's think about that one... ... er that would be a 'no' then!! (I even managed to overcook the apple pies that I was working on alongside the damn jaffa cakes, so am doubly annoyed with myself!)