Our easiest ever biscuit recipes (2024)

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by Malou Herkes

published on 30 April 2020

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Brighten up your day with these super-easy homemade biscuits. We’ve handpicked the quickest and most straightforward recipes, all of them made using everyday baking staples so you don’t have to head out to the shops. You can throw these together in a matter of moments to satisfy those sugar cravings. Got kids at home?These biscuits are simple enough for children to make without too much extra help.

Fork Biscuits

by Mary Berry

from My Kitchen Table: 100 Sweet Treats and Puds

These simple, three-ingredient biscuits are a favourite of Mary Berry, who has been happily making them for years.

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Three-ingredient Shortbread Rounds

by Sarah Rainey

from Three Ingredient Baking

“My amazing grandma used to make the world’s best shortbread. This is her recipe – light, buttery and melt-in-your-mouth delicious”, says Sarah Rainey. Butter, icing sugar and plain flour is all you need to make these easy biscuits. Check out Sarah’s Three Ingredient Bakingpacked with recipes to help you cook from a half-empty baking cupboard.

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Nadiya Hussain’s Cheese Biscuits with Tomato Jam

by Nadiya Hussain

from Nadiya’s Family Favourites

These smoky,cheesy morsels are perfect for anyone with kids, according to Nadiya, who admits her children have a bit of an addiction to them. Combine grated cheese witha few baking staples to make these crisp, salty rounds and servewith sweet tomato jam.

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Bakewell Biscuits

by Miranda Gore Browne

from Biscuit

These chewy, almondy biscuits are packed withcherries for a teatime bite inspired by the British tart. Enhance the experience by making smaller biscuits and sandwiching them together with raspberry jam.

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Mary Berry’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Mary Berry

from Simple Cakes

Mary Berry knows a thing or two about making a good biscuit. These chewy cookies can be kept in a tin for about a week, although we doubt they’ll last long enough. Mary’s top tip? For a more grown-up taste, chop a bar of plain chocolate orange into small cubes and use instead of the chocolate chips.

Fork Biscuits

by Mary Berry

from My Kitchen Table: 100 Sweet Treats and Puds

You need just three ingredients to make these cute biscuits – butter, flour and sugar. Whip these up using your store cupboard basics for a simple teatime treat.

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My Kitchen Table: 100 Sweet Treats and Puds

Coffee Kisses

by Linda Collister

from The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

Raid your cupboards for instant coffee to make these rich, melt-in-the-mouth biscuits. Bake them as individual biscuits or make them more indulgent with a light and fluffy cocoa buttercream.

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The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

Three-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

by Sarah Rainey

from Three Ingredient Baking

Thesecrispy little mouthfuls are the perfect dunkers for tea, and they’re not too sweet either. Simple to throw together, they’re an excellent first-time biscuit for the kids to make themselves.

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Cornish Fairings

by Linda Collister

from The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

Flavoured with candied lemon, orange peel and spice, these West Country biscuits are made with golden syrup to add a lovely chewy texture.

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The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

Macaroons

by Linda Collister

from The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

These round, flattish almond biscuits are crisp on the outside with a chewy centre. Decorate with almonds and serve up for an afternoon dunk.

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The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking

Apple Crumble Cookies

by Jamie Oliver

from

This is a useful recipe if you’ve got apples that need using up – apples are dried, blitzed in a food processor and combined with a few baking staples to make these crumbly biscuits.

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FAQs

What is the secret to good biscuits? ›

The secret to the best biscuits is using very cold butter and baking powder. We've made a lot of biscuits, but this easy biscuits recipe is the one we turn to the most (they are so fluffy!).

What kind of liquid is best for making biscuits? ›

Just as important as the fat is the liquid used to make your biscuits. Our Buttermilk Biscuit recipe offers the choice of using milk or buttermilk. Buttermilk is known for making biscuits tender and adding a zippy tang, so we used that for this test.

What not to do when making biscuits? ›

5 Mistakes You're Making With Your Biscuits
  1. Mistake #1: Your butter is too warm.
  2. Mistake #2: You're using an inferior flour.
  3. Mistake #3: You use an appliance to mix your batter.
  4. Mistake #4: You don't fold the dough enough.
  5. Mistake #5: You twist your biscuit cutter.
Feb 1, 2019

Are biscuits better with butter or shortening? ›

Crisco may be beneficial for other baking applications, but for biscuit making, butter is the ultimate champion!

Is it better to use milk or water for biscuits? ›

Taste-testing results:

Three of five thought the water biscuits were fluffier and better overall. Two of five thought the milk biscuits had a little better taste.

Is buttermilk or heavy cream better for biscuits? ›

Heavy Cream.

The heavy cream adds flavor to the biscuit by adding a little more fat and helps hydrate the dough. The extra fat in the heavy cream is helpful because buttermilk in stores is often “low-fat” buttermilk.

What makes biscuits taste better? ›

Brush the biscuits with butter after baking

“If you want the most luscious biscuits ever, brush the tops with melted butter after they come out of the oven,” says James. Brushing the butter on after baking ensures that the butter soaks into the baked biscuit so you get that great buttery flavor in every bite.

Should you refrigerate biscuit dough before baking? ›

But if you chill your pan of biscuits in the fridge before baking, not only will the gluten relax (yielding more tender biscuits), the butter will harden up. And the longer it takes the butter to melt as the biscuits bake, the more chance they have to rise high and maintain their shape. So, chill... and chill.

What makes a good biscuit? ›

I like the following characteristics in a biscuit:
  1. Hot enough to melt cheese,
  2. tangy from buttermilk,
  3. devoid of added sugar,
  4. risen enough to expose layers (as well as how they were cut),
  5. firm enough to be separated or opened by hand without crumbling apart,
  6. a buttery taste, and.
  7. brown on the top and bottom.
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How to improve your biscuits? ›

Use Cold Butter for Biscuits

For flaky layers, use cold butter. When you cut in the butter, you have coarse crumbs of butter coated with flour. As the biscuits bake, the butter melts, releasing steam and creating pockets of air. This makes the biscuits airy and flaky on the inside.

What are the two most important steps in biscuit making? ›

The two keys to success in making the best biscuits are handling the dough as little as possible as well as using very cold solid fat (butter, shortening, or lard) and cold liquid. When the biscuits hit the oven, the cold liquid will start to evaporate creating steam which will help our biscuits get very tall.

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