/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Hello /ck/, I have two questions:

How have people's experiences with homemade versions of brand name snack foods gone?

Has anyone tried making home made jaffa cakes, and found it to be similar to the actual product?

I've been wanting to try out jaffa cakes for a while now (in addition to other mainly UK treats) but there's no place near me that has them, and online prices can be crazy, so then I thought I could just try making my own. Found this recipe on the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/homemadejaffacakes_91480

The only issue I see having with it is
>Suspend a heatproof bowl over the water (do not allow the base of the bowl to touch the water)
Not sure how I'm going to set that up. Also I'm not the most experienced cook so I'm not entirely sure what "sieved" flour is, but is seems that it's just flour with no clumps.

I've been on a British food kick for a while, since I decided on a whim to try out scotch eggs and loved them.