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To ask for your biscuit recommendations?

209 replies

JontyDoggle37 · 14/10/2018 20:49

I have realised I am in a biscuit no-mans land, having eaten, but not loved many a biscuit in my time. I’m now in search of ‘the one’, the lifetime partner biscuit that only death or removal from manufacture will see us parted. I do love a proper highland shortbread, but at the same time they are just a little too plain. Chocolate covered/filled/chips is good (but please don’t recommend hobnobs, I do not have the spare time available to remove those from my teeth). Any kind of fruit filling/coating could also be interesting. In particular, these biscuits are required to go with my last tea before bed at night, and also with a coffee or two during the week when I’m working from home. So
A) AIBU to ask, and
B) what do you recommend?

OP posts:
Tighnabruaich · 15/10/2018 16:58

Choco Leibniz - the biscuit part is just as perfect as the chocolate on top. I could eat the whole packet in one sitting! I urge you all to go out NOW and buy a packet of Bahlsen Choco Leibnitz.

DaisysStew · 15/10/2018 17:06

These! I’ve had to limit myself to one box a week because I just demolish them in one go.

To ask for your biscuit recommendations?
longwayoff · 15/10/2018 17:14

My recommendation is never to eat them. Having said that, the world is my biscuit, can't choose favourite but I have 2 hates. Garibaldi and, worse, fig roll. Everything else, yes. Heads for kitchen . . .

MrsMoastyToasty · 15/10/2018 17:17

In my biscuit eating days (before gluten intolerance curtailed my intake) I was partial to
Fig Rolls
Garibaldi
Lemon Puffs ( eat the top layer, then the bottom layer surrounding the filling and then the filling and any remaining biscuit- this method also works for any sandwich style biscuit)

I will live vicariously through your research and if any one has "sourced" decent g/f alternatives then please let me know.

VetOnCall · 15/10/2018 17:20

Dark chocolate Digestives, or the round M&S or Waitrose ones with really thick chocolate and a hole in the middle. Waitrose do an orange version of those that I particularly miss now that I'm in Canada. Biscuits here are pretty uniformly crap (Oreos or Chips Ahoy cookies are about 80% of the selection) unless we can find some imported ones - we got some Tim Tams last week and they're pretty good.

KitKat1985 · 15/10/2018 17:27

Best biscuits in my opinion are:

Fox's round biscuits (excellent thick chocolate layer).
Fig rolls (you can kid yourself it's healthy).
Stroopwafels.
Those wafer roll things you get in biscuit selection tins (but annoyingly never seem to be sold in a pack on their own).

sickmumma · 15/10/2018 17:28

Dark chocolate digestives! Jammie
Dodgers and cookies are my favourites!

quackaday · 15/10/2018 17:32

Abernethys. Buttery, short, delicious.

CookieSue222 · 15/10/2018 17:35

Another vote for Tim tams (best thing ever to come out of Australia). When we visit, my lovely Ozzie SIL always bulk buys when they are on offer and fills a spare suitcase for us to bring back. Love the more exotic 'limited edition' ones - Tia Maria, Salted Caramel, White Chocolate and Raspberry, Turkish Delight.....

LadyChatterlysLoofah · 15/10/2018 17:40

RIP Abbey Crunch

Can't believe no-one else has mentioned Nice biscuits for everyday, so more-ish.
Lots of other recommendations to try here though ....

powkin · 15/10/2018 17:43

@missyB1 - you can get Kimberley's on Ocado... not sure if you're in Ireland so have your own regular supply, but might help someone else wnating to try them out!

GetSchwifty · 15/10/2018 17:44

Thomas Fudges blisscuits are very nice.

wafflyversatile · 15/10/2018 17:50

I'm also a choco Leibniz fan. They used to be a rare treat biscuit but in the last year or so they are regularly to be found for a very reasonable £1 or even 74p yesterday.

However they are still not really an every day biscuit and there are only, like, 3 in a pack, or 8 or something. Seems like about 3.

Also M&S extremely chocolately ginger biscuits are to die for. They seemed to disappear for a few years but they are back and they are wow.

JustDanceAddict · 15/10/2018 17:52

Choco Liebniz I cannot resist
Chocolate digestive still pretty nice. Love a digestive!
Penguin/kitkat/orange club
Cookie type ones.

Tbh I don’t buy them that much as I’d eat them(!)

wafflyversatile · 15/10/2018 17:52

If you like shortbread then M&S, and other retailers, do ones with bits of stuff in to liven them up.

EcceInPictura · 15/10/2018 18:29

Cafe Noir biscuits- party rings for grown ups. Difficult to source though.

yawning801 · 15/10/2018 18:34

Another one for chocolate Leibniz (if you can spell it, you deserve one!). Biscoff spread is bloody amazing, especially in a cheesecake with Lotus biscuit base.

greathat · 15/10/2018 18:40

The m&s ones with the really thick choc layer on

YoniHuman · 15/10/2018 19:21

My favourites are Mcvities Classic Caramel Digestives and Co-op All Butter Shortbread Fingers, (in the blue 200g packet). The double pack style are thinner and not as nice. Even my children noticed the difference when I tried to fob them off with some from the double pack.

YoniHuman · 15/10/2018 19:24

M&S Flapjack Cookies are good too. I try to convince myself it's the healthier biscuit option. (I am fully aware, it's not Grin).

Davros · 15/10/2018 19:31

Those tubs of mini rolls, mini flapjacks etc are good, M&S ones for me but they've been copied

crispysausagerolls · 15/10/2018 19:42

What happened to chocolate rich tea biscuits? I can’t find them anymore

adaisychain · 15/10/2018 20:24

@crispysausagerolls co-op own brand!

Alwayscheerful · 15/10/2018 20:30

Lotus Biscoff

To ask for your biscuit recommendations?
crispysausagerolls · 15/10/2018 20:49

adaisychain excellent, thank you!!!!