“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 Baking packed with recipes to help you cook from a half-empty baking cupboard.
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 with a few baking staples to make these crisp, salty rounds and serve with sweet tomato jam.
These chewy, almondy biscuits are packed with cherries for a teatime bite inspired by the British tart. Enhance the experience by making smaller biscuits and sandwiching them together with raspberry jam.
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.
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.
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.
These crispy 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.
Flavoured with candied lemon, orange peel and spice, these West Country biscuits are made with golden syrup to add a lovely chewy texture.
These round, flattish almond biscuits are crisp on the outside with a chewy centre. Decorate with almonds and serve up for an afternoon dunk.
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.
