I see you take your biscuiting as seriously as I do; biscuits are popular in countries like the UK, New Zealand, the Isle of Man, Australia and Africa, well for the Americans its “cookies”.
Biscuits come in more than 20 different types, so finding the perfect one for you might be a chore, this post highlights the 10 common types so you know what sounds good to you, you don’t have to try them all! Consider this your guide to biscuitology
1. Digestive
Plain and simple, these are the OG type of biscuits; they’re basically little sponges waiting to chug your tea. A national UK favorite. Sweet with a slightly salted taste, so they are more right on the boundary of sweet and savory biscuits
Without no doubt, one of the most popular types of biscuits in the UK, digestive biscuits are a semi-sweet variety, made from coarse whole-wheat flour. The biscuit is firm, soft, and crumbly, the milk chocolate digestives are so good and the dark chocolate ones are even better
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2. Bourbon
Before you ask, no; there’s no actual bourbon in a Bourbon biscuit, you drunkard! These types of biscuits derive their name from a contraction of two names: “BOURnville”, the place of its invention, and “BONN”, the hometown of its inventor
It is a type of biscuits sandwich created by combining two chocolate-flavored biscuits with a chocolate butter-cream filling. They are like upscale Oreos and for me, dark chocolate digestives are better than bourbons, they also go well with tea
You either love bourbon so much or hate them so much, nothing in between they are usually left out for last just like Bounties in a box of assorted chocolates.
3. Shortcake
They aren’t the most iconic, just a bit sweeter than regular biscuits. With one of the simplest recipes, shortcakes are made using vegetable fat instead of butter and include a raising agent, giving them a lighter texture.
Shortbread not to be confused with shortcake, on the other hand, is mainly made from butter, sugar, and flour, often with a higher butter content. Shortcake, however, usually contains baking powder or baking soda, making it lighter and fluffier.
4. Ginger Nuts
Gingernuts might just be the most underrated biscuits out there. Sure, they’re dense, hard, and compact—basically the edible equivalent of concrete—but they’ve got character.
The first bite is like trying to chew through the hardest biscuit imaginable, but once you break through, the crunch is strangely satisfying and rewarding.
An acquired taste? Absolutely.And the best part? No kid is stealing these from your stash. Flavor-wise, they’re unapologetically gingery with the occasional cameo from spices like nutmeg and cinnamon.
When it comes to dunking, gingernuts are in a league of their own. Unlike the overly fragile digestives that crumble at the mere thought of tea, these just hold their ground.
They soak up just enough to soften without ever falling apart, no matter how long you forget about them in your mug.
5. Petit Beurre
The name Petit Beurre hails from France, describing a shortbread-style biscuit (not to be mistaken for shortcake—please, they’d be offended). These were originally whipped up by the LU company, but the name has since gone rogue and is no longer theirs alone. Basically, think of them as French biscuits with a British accent.
They’re dry and crunchy, but let’s not pretend they’re as hard as gingernuts—nothing competes with gingernuts in hardness. And for variety’s sake, some Petit Beurres have chocolate-coated faces in some variations.
6. Nice Biscuits
These are actually pronounced as neese biscuits, the same way data is pronounced as data and not data lol
Nice biscuits are mostly popular with kids, and that would be because they are sugar-coated. Their flavor is normally coconut, just mild coconut and not as intensely coconutty as coconut cookies, they are normally thin and these are not the kind of biscuits to dunk into a hot beverage, they will disintegrate right there and then
7. Creams
Imagining the idea of adding cream and sandwiching biscuits is supposed to be classy, but they end up tasting cheap and sometimes nasty or just boring the cream flavoring is nasty sometimes depending on what flavor, cream biscuits have alot of variations from lemon, to vanilla, custard, chocolate and so on, so these are essentially sandwich biscuits
8. Coconut Biscuits
Yes, we already mentioned Nice biscuits to be mildly coconutty, coconut biscuits aren’t mildly that but intensely! They are also thicker than Nice ones and they resemble cookies more than biscuits, they are simply a biscuit version of coconut cookies
9. Milk Biscuits
Milk biscuits are universally liked, they are milky and malty, and they are adored even by kids they are just decent okay? Malted biscuits are just good and on a higher tier, and just like chocolate digestives from before, Chocolate malted milks are on another level too- compared to normal milk and malt biscuits
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