"Have we done biscuits yet?" Topic

Nominations for your favourite biscuit please.

I'll start with Dark Chocolate Hobnobs…..

Jammy dodgers, but hob nobs (of any variety) come in a close second

Tim Tams!

Southern Style Buttermilk, oh wait you guys are talking about what we call cookies. Then I vote for Chocolate Chip.

Dare(brand) Raspberry Creams

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with them, they are like a Jammy Dodger, but with an added layer of cream (think Oreo, but better cream) under the dollop of jam)

Choc-chip Maryland cookies (three packs a pound at Poundland!).

Buttermilk biscuits and cream gravy all the way for me!

Yeah, see, this is just going to get messy.

Coming next: your favorite chips!

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Agree with Texas Jack

OP got it right! Chocolate Hobnobs for me too.

How about some jaw breaking hardtack, Civil War style?

Tunnock's Caramel logs or dark chocolate Caramel Wafers

+2 with Texas Jack.

My grandmother's home-made, Southern biscuits, served warm with butter, and piled high with Virginia, salt-cured, and smoked, country ham.

Mmmmmmmmmmm, delicious!

Another vote for buttermilk biscuits and cream gravy. With sausage and bacon on the side.
But if we're talking cookies, chocolate chip are my favorite by far.

Dark Chocolate Hob Nobs :3

Whether we're talking chocolate chip cookies, or we're talking biscuits and gravy, the answer is the same: Grandma's.

Basic scotch shortbread – extra butter.

Ginger nuts!!

Jaffa cakes.

Porcelain. I've never been fond of plain ceramic, and plastic is right out.

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Dark chocolate Mcvities digestive

Fig rolls

You Americans are crazy!!!

First off, what you are calling a biscuit is actually a scone! And then you have scones with GRAVY! Bonkers…..

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But at least we donīt have baked beans for breakfast! Everyone knows that baked beans go with a Fourth of July barbecue!

Oh, and to answer your question, I really dig peanut butter cookies!

From the King Arthur Flour site (a US company)

What's the difference between a biscuit and a scone? It seems in this country, in most cases, that when a baking powder biscuit is either plain or savory, it remains a biscuit; and when it's sweetened with sugar and fruit (or chocolate, or cinnamon, or…), it becomes a scone. Whatever you decide to call them, biscuits or scones are unbelievably easy to make; they bake in minutes, and, if we slow our lives down enough to enjoy them with a leisurely breakfast, a savory supper, or with a cup of tea in the afternoon, we'll have adopted a tradition worth keeping.

Cookies – chocolate with Reese's peanut butter chips. It's the very recipe on the bag.

Hard cookies are generally unwelcome, which eliminates most of the store bought varieties. All those awful Pepperridge Farm varieties are crumby, tastless, inedible. Chips Ahoy? What a terribly disappointing experience. Maybe the only exception are shortbread cookies.

Sausage biscuits come in a close second, in the savory category.

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For those of you fellow Americans from the other side of the Atlantic, this is a question about 'cookies' not 'biscuits!' I prefer toll house chocolate chip cookies, right out of the oven hot and chewy!

Well, the title does ask about biscuits, so…….speak proper "English" will ya, when asking the question.

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No offense meant to my UK cousins – just havin' a little fun with you, especially over the "English" bit. Clearly, the question has been lost in translation to "American".

Biscuits are warm, and fluffy, and baked in the oven. They're meant to be slathered with butter, and to have your favorite meats served on them.

"Cookies" on the other hand, are usually a bit thinner, frequently crunchier, and sweeter too, and served for dessert.

I am quite fond of Jaffa cakes, but my wife insists those are properly cakes, and neither cookies nor biscuits.

My 3 Favorties

Best at room temp: Walker's Shortbread
Best out of the freezer: Girl Scout's Thin Mints
Best out of the oven: My Wife's Chocolate Chip Cookies

The VAT man agrees with optional field's wife. Chocolate biscuits are VATable, but Jaffa Cakes are classed as cakes and so have zero VAT…..

We're two countries separated by the same language …

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I told my Scottish roommate about a fast-food chain with amazing spicy chicken biscuits. He literally had a BSOD in his brain.

British biscuits: I am partial to Jammy Dodgers and Shortbread fingers.

American biscuits: buttermilk with sawmill gravy

American cookies: Nutter Butters and Oreos (both with milk)

Oh, and homemade cookies: snickerdoodle