Use storecupboard ingredients to make these moreish chocolate fudge crinkle biscuits. The simplest biscuits biscuits and gravy without sausage and the kids will ever bake. Try this basic recipe for fail-safe biscuits every time.

Use fresh and ground ginger to make these moreish biscuits. Make our vegan shortbread with olive oil for a buttery flavour and cornflour to get the crumbliness of traditional versions. An easy chocolate chip cookie recipe for soft biscuits with a squidgy middle that will impress family and friends. A star rating of 4 out of 5. Bake these classic shortbread biscuits to wow a crowd.

Everyone needs a treat now and again! We’ve given the classic Florentine a chocolate covered biscuity base so they’re perfect for dunking. Use storecupboard ingredients to make these moreish chocolate fudge crinkle biscuits. A star rating of 5 out of 5. Rustle up these Italian-inspired almond biscuits.

Combine two retro treats in one delicious bite. An easy chocolate chip cookie recipe for soft biscuits with a squidgy middle that will impress family and friends. If you love peanut butter, what could be better than peanut buttercream slathered between two chocolate shortbread biscuits? Add some colour to classic bourbon biscuits using pink food colouring. A star rating of 4 out of 5. Use fresh and ground ginger to make these moreish biscuits.

Try baking these simple chocolate orange fudge crinkle biscuits with the kids. These elegant, buttery biscuits might look extra impressive but they’re surprisingly easy to make. Make a batch of these easy empire biscuits and enjoy with a cuppa. Work your way up from simple garibaldis to impressive tuiles. This recipe was sent in by my mum.

It is impossible to eat just one of these deliciously moreish biscuits, as I can clearly remember from my childhood! Most biscuits need to be removed from the baking sheet as soon as they are set and cooled on wire racks before being stored in an airtight container. Store biscuits and cakes separately: biscuits stored in the same container as sponge cakes will turn soggy. Homemade biscuits will usually keep for up to two weeks. You can freeze cooked biscuits for up to one month. Unbaked dough can be frozen for up to one month, or chilled for three days. Putting a few sugar cubes into the biscuit tin helps keep them crisp.

A handy trick is to refresh previously baked biscuits by heating them in a low oven for five minutes before serving. Most biscuits are made by the rubbing-in or creaming method, yet the ratios of ingredients are combined in such a way as to produce a wide range of styles, from crumbly buttery shortbread, to hard, dry Italian biscotti. The melt-and-mix method is used for biscuits such as brandy snaps and tuiles. These biscuits are shaped after removal from the oven while they’re still warm and malleable. When making biscuits, always stick closely to the recipe. Using a larger egg than that specified could result in hard biscuits, while incorporating too much extra flour while rolling out the dough will make your biscuits tough and dry.

Similarly, follow the instructions for spacing your biscuits before baking, as some doughs are designed to spread and the biscuits will merge if placed too close together in the oven. Vegans can substitute the butter in biscuit and cookie recipes with soya fat. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. North American bread “biscuit” at left.

The three biscuits are crunchy, and smaller, drier and sweeter than the American “biscuit”, which is soft and flaky like a scone. In most of the world outside North America, a “biscuit” is a small baked product that would be called either a “cookie” or a “cracker” in the United States and sometimes in Canada. In the United States and some parts of Canada, a “biscuit” is a quick bread, somewhat similar to a scone, and usually unsweetened. In Canada, the term “biscuit” can simultaneously refer to what is commonly identified as a biscuit in either the United Kingdom or the United States. The modern-day difference in the English language regarding the word “biscuit” is remarked on by British cookery writer Elizabeth David in English Bread and Yeast Cookery, in the chapter “Yeast Buns and Small Tea Cakes” and section “Soft Biscuits”. Scotland and Guernsey, and that the term biscuit as applied to a soft product was retained in these places, and in America, whereas in England it has completely died out.