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To ask if you know the recipes for any of these school biscuits?

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HecticHedgehog · 02/06/2023 00:13

When I was at middle school I would frequently get biscuits at tuck (or a lovely hot sausage roll), There were two types of biscuits, one had a plain vanilla or chocolate version. They were quite chunky and a little bit like shortbread in texture but I don't think they were actually shortbread. The others were bigger and flatter and had oats in them with either a choc button or glacé cherry on the top in the middle. It would have been around the1990s. Does anyone recognise them and know where I can find a recipe?

We also used to have small cubed fried/roasted potatoes at lunch sometimes and I swear they were called Garfield's but cannot find anything online that suggests these even existed! Has anyone else heard of these.

Oo and I do miss the spam fritters we used to get Grin

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 02/06/2023 00:21

The second ones sound like Melting Moments to me. I have the recipe in either the Bero or McDougalls baking book.

EspressoPatronum · 02/06/2023 00:27

Chocolate crunch?? My dh has a recipe for that I think…. Somewhere…

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HecticHedgehog · 02/06/2023 00:29

No not chocolate crunch. I have the recipe for that. Yum! I'll look at melting moments, thanks.

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Crumpleton · 02/06/2023 00:32

Could the first on be Viennese whirls?
Just a singular biscuit not sandwiched together like Mr Kipplin type.

To ask if you know the recipes for any of these school biscuits?
AdaColeman · 02/06/2023 00:35

Could the shortbread like biscuits be Viennese biscuits?

For the potatoes, look up Greek style roast potatoes and Parmentier potatoes, both of those are cubed roast potatoes.

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HecticHedgehog · 02/06/2023 00:44

No not Viennese whirls. They were denser and less delicate.

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Dilbertian · 02/06/2023 00:45

Costco shortbread biscuits always remind me of school tuck. Ours were round and a little smaller, and did not have choc chips, but they have the same shortbread-but-not-quite that I remember from school.

INeedAnotherName · 02/06/2023 00:46

Oh....I'm here for the recipes 😀

Daffodil92 · 02/06/2023 01:00

Oh OP I totally remember these! Definitely not a Viennese whirl.

CherryMaple · 02/06/2023 05:05

My Mum used to make Melting Moments rolled in crushed cornflakes instead of oats. Absolutely delicious.

Ostryga · 02/06/2023 05:16

Not helpful but does anyone have a recipe for the school cornflake cakes? They definitely weren’t just melted chocolate - they were sticky and delicious. I’ve tried all versions with melted chocolate/butter/syrup and they are not the same!

abcchipmunk · 02/06/2023 05:28

I remember those chocolate biscuits. I’ve dreamt about them since…

abcchipmunk · 02/06/2023 05:31

abcchipmunk · 02/06/2023 05:28

I remember those chocolate biscuits. I’ve dreamt about them since…

Just been doing some research. Wondering if they were chocolate fork biscuits?

GreenIsle · 02/06/2023 06:21

Are they a bit like German biscuits.

JennyForeigner · 02/06/2023 06:27

Ostryga · 02/06/2023 05:16

Not helpful but does anyone have a recipe for the school cornflake cakes? They definitely weren’t just melted chocolate - they were sticky and delicious. I’ve tried all versions with melted chocolate/butter/syrup and they are not the same!

Melting moments - yum!

We were raised by a single mum who was a primary school teacher, and so basically in school. There were a lot of school charity recipe books around.

Her cornflake cake recipe was something like 2oz butter, 2oz golden syrup, 4oz old-school Bournville chocolate. Bloody delicious.

Might make a cornflake tart today.

StrawberryPavlova · 02/06/2023 06:29

Ostryga · 02/06/2023 05:16

Not helpful but does anyone have a recipe for the school cornflake cakes? They definitely weren’t just melted chocolate - they were sticky and delicious. I’ve tried all versions with melted chocolate/butter/syrup and they are not the same!

Could have had marshmallows melted in with the chocolate maybe?

Iwantmyoldnameback · 02/06/2023 06:53

We used to do cornflake cakes with butter, golden syrup and cocoa powder.
My friend makes them without the cocoa but with melted marshmallows. Taste lovely but hard to eat.

PollyThePixie · 02/06/2023 06:55

Op, have a look at iced sugar cookies to see if that’s the first biscuit you mentioned.

londonrach · 02/06/2023 06:56

I'd love the recipe of one school biscuit I had too ..had two colours, brown and white that swirled around each other.

mybestchildismycat · 02/06/2023 07:11

I remember exactly those biscuits you're describing, OP! Early 90s. Served in a bag that was paper on one side and cellophane on the other.

I'd always assumed the shortbready ones were just a normal shortbread recipe made with margarine instead of butter and rolled extra thick. The chocolate ones were a bit of a mystery, like a crap/over baked interpretation chocolate brownie.

I'd forgotton about the oat biscuits until you mentioned them but yes they definitely existed just as you describe!

malificent7 · 02/06/2023 07:16

Nothing can beat the australian crunch that we had at school. Served with mint custard...amazing!

FerrariLaFerrari · 02/06/2023 07:23

My school did the stickiest, most gooey cornflake cakes. I've never been able.to.replicate them even with tonnes of golden sugar, butter and dark choc.

They also did a version of chocolate concrete but again, it was much richer and more gooey than the usual recipe.

Big high school.in the north west if anyone else thinks this sounds familiar!