Here's some Jaffa Cake nerdiness: biscuits go soft when stale, whereas cakes go hard and brittle. Jaffa Cakes go hard and brittle when stale, therefore... 😉
I think biscoff is ginger bread? I might be wrong. That could be why they are crispier. Better than chocolate HobNobs are Asda own Chocolate Oaties. They’re amazing!
Bourbon is not pronounced like the whisky, it’s pronounced bore bonn like the type of vanilla pod that is used to flavour them. If it is a biscuit we dunk, cakes we don’t.
Digestive biscuits with a nice sharp cheddar 👍 Also, chocolate hobnobs are the greatest biscuits. Also also, Peter Kay's bit on dipping biscuits in tea is one of the funniest pieces of comedy!
Chocolate Hobnobs are good but Chocolate Malted Milks are unbeatable. I find the texture of Hobnobs to be offputting after one or two, whereas I can eat 32,000 choccie malted milks, uninterrupted, in a single sitting. Choccie Hobnobs are fine for the first few and then it feels like I'm eating a cork pinboard.
Plain digestives are wonderful for their versatility. You can put anything on them; cheese, butter, jam, your favourite spread. They can also be crushed to make a base for a pie. I like to make s’mores out of them by topping them with marshmallows and chocolate, then toasting and topping with a second digestive.
You definitely need a part 2 of this video including Ginger Nuts, Ginger Creams, Viennese whirls, Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, Fox's Half-Coated Milk Chocolate Cookies, Penguin, Rocky, Fox's Viennese Raspberry Creams and I'm sure many more!
Hmm, maybe Penguins, Clubs and Chocolate fingers as a separate third video as chocolate biscuit sweets.But I would definitely add Garibaldi biscuits to the biscuit list.
In the three years that I lived in London I got most of my biscuits at work from our tea lady. I didn’t pay attention to what they were but they were always good. At the same time I was receiving care packages from home which included my Granny’s homemade biscuits or cookies as we called them. They were hard to beat. So thanks for the taste test. I may have never purchased any of these but I most certainly ate some of them except Jaffa cakes. I would remember those as I don’t care for orange with chocolate.
My fave bikkie, The Mint Viscount. But re the McVitie digestive, their relative neutral flavour makes them great as savoury treats too. Try one buttered, with a slice of cheddar (other cheeses are available 🙂) with a splodge of Branston pickle on top. A great combo.
@hairyairey I never bought the big one, still regularly buy the normal size ones. I do prefer the originals for quality, but there's so many copies out there now, some good and others not so good.
A rule I heard for 'is it a biscuit or a cake?' Biscuits go soft when they become stale whereas cakes go hard when they become stale. A Jaffa cake becomes hard when it goes stale so it's a cake. 😉
The only qualifier for Jaffa Cakes being a biscuit is they're small and round. They're called cakes, made of cakes, have the same stale properties as cake and are classed as cakes legally. If you cut a chocolate brownie into a circle, it doesn't become a biscuit.
@@SaintPhoenixx I agree and if small and round is a quantifier then I offer up cup cakes, fairy cakes, jam tarts and several others. The only reason I see for people (wrongly) believing they're biscuits is the packaging and the aisle they are sold in.
The definition is actually mostly in the process. Biscuits are double baked, once to cook, second time to go crispy. Cakes are baked once. - like US cookies, which remain soft and partly chewy. some where between a cake and a cookie is a brownie, also single baked
There was an episode of QI that Stephen Fry said the makers of Jaffa Cakes baked one that was Cake size to prove to the government that it was a cake not a biscuit
Nothing can beat a chocolate hob nob or should I say packet of chocolate hob nobs, much as I love many of the others including Biscoff, Jaffa Cakes and all the cream biscuits.
Yes, I will die on the hill that Rich Teas are underrated! Yes they're plain, but it just means you can eat more of them! Amazing hangover cure as well!
Oh! Sorry for the second comment, but Biscoff is Belgian, not British. We have a bit of an addiction to them here (and they're accidentally vegan, so the British vegan community went NUTS for them when they first came out over here about a decade ago). If you mix the Biscoff spread with vanilla buttercream icing and whack it in the freezer overnight, you can chop it into slices and it's a delicious quick and easy dessert. Although it is VERY sweet so I've only ever been able to eat tiny slices of it. My friend does the same with peanut butter instead of biscoff, and you can also chop up chocolate bars or whatever and mix it in. The Caramilk bar works well for it. Num num num.
Cheesecake with Biscoff base and peanut butter topping - Maltesers for decoration. Trust me...🤤🤤 The Biscoff topping is just too over the top, you can feel your teeth rotting it's so sweet.
@@HopeVReason Yes and no. Speculoos/speculaas are a type of biscuit and Biscoff is a brand that makes them. Biscoff is Belgian where they call these biscuits speculoos, but some other places call them Speculaas. Not sure where the biscuits come from originally, although... Google tells me the Netherlands!
I make it a rule never to trust anyone who doesn't like The Beatles, Monty Python or Jaffa Cakes 😵 At Christmas I eat the whole 'Yard of Jaffa Cakes' that they sell in a long festive box all in one sitting. Truly the food of the Gods 😍
If you like biscuits with cream filling, Alanna, I think you’d like lemon puffs. They are also traditional, but you don’t see them so much these days. They’re made with puff pastry and filled with lemon cream. They’re delicious.
There's nothing wrong with calling a maryland a cookie , apart from giant cookies you can buy in supermarkets we've always called biscuits biscuits and mary land cookies specifically cookies
I have to say, we do biscuits very, VERY well in this country. I would happily eat every single one of the ones you tried. - Chocolate HobNobs are loved by everybody. They weren't around when I was growing up, but they just work - have never tried the Biscoff creams, but will deffo give them a go - Custard Creams are so sweet, but they are also SO nostalgic that I still love them - those raspberry cream ones are delicious. I prefer Happy Faces, which are similar, but have cream and jam! - Jaffa Cakes are a cake, because as they age, they dry out and become like rock (just like any other cake). When biscuits age, they go soft - glad your partner corrected you on the pronunciation of Nice biscuits! - the only classic one you didn't try was Rich Tea biscuits, but on their own without a cuppa they are dry as hell - my favourite-ever biscuit (which you can't buy anymore) were Gypsy Creams. They were like Bourbons crossed with the Fox Crunch Creams - rich but not sickly, bags of flavour, delicious!
To all those Jaffa Cake aficionados out there (and I'm one) if you buy McVities then you must have more money than sense. My local Supermarket is ASDA and I buy their own label Jaffa Cakes. Believe me, there's no difference, in fact I've started having the lemon ones - they still do the traditional orange ones and strawberry ones. A couple of years or so ago, McVities used to sell Jaffa Cakes with 12 cakes in a box, then it went down to 11 and now it's down to 10 cakes in a box. What's more, the price is somewhere in the region of around £1.20. ASDA brand is around the 80p mark - and there are still 12 cakes in the box.
Jaffa Cakes, if you leave a biscuit and a cake out in the open, a cake will go hard, and a biscuit will go soft, a Jaffa will go hard, that's how they won there case ❤️✌️
Hey Alanna - many years ago, when the Maryland Chocolate Chip cookies first arrived in the UK, they were much bigger, much more 'rugged' and were almost kind of dome-shaped. Sadly, I think they have been a victim of the insidious trend for making the product smaller/less substantial while maintaining the same price. Oh, and I can totally vouch for your sponsor - I've slept on an Emma mattress for the last couple of years and it is AMAZING.
I think the size of things altered when our then EU masters started meddling with product sizes and names we had known for decades. It was responsible for a lot of things changing, including area specific identification like, Sherry became Fortified Wine if not made there, Cornish Pasties and Melton Mowbray pork pies were some of many forced changes. Cutting back on size just made people buy even more, so defeating the objective.
@@brianwhittington5086 Nice try, but nothing to do with the EU at all. More to do with retaining the same amount of profit for less product. And as for "area specific identification", you'll find that's been of huge benefit to those manufacturers, but less so to the poor quality imitators. So it's not 'meddling' at all - it's sensible clarification.
@thetragicyouth Not so, the EU are heavily into regulations for both. I believe it's contained within article 26 of the regulations to restric the production of area specific produce and where its ingredients are allowed to be sourced. The E mark is also used to denote that a product conforms to all the regulations on it's size, ingredients sourcing etc. It's not just food, many things fell foul of the dreaded E mark that covered products made in the EU, or imported into any EU trade area. Any restrictions on importing and using global commodities is to control taxation tariffs.
@@brianwhittington5086 Boris and Farage were lying. And 'sovereignty' doesn't pay the bills. And in any case, the EU wouldn't be "meddling' with Maryland cookies because Maryland is not in the EU... trying to shoehorn anti-EU sentiment into a discussion of the shrinking size of Maryland cookies is risible. 🤣🤣🤣
Chocolate hobnobs are my elite. I've always been fond of malted milks as well, but I love anything malted so that's that. Am also partial to a Garibaldi and a ginger nut.
One more comment, Alanna: if you're a biscuit fan, you _have to_ go on a weekend trip to Holland to try their cookies (Dutch: _koekje,_ which I think is where American cookies get their name). They as very different to British biscuits, but amazing! Buy a couple of bagfuls to bring home and also try some fresh _koekjes_ in bakeries too.
In the past, I have had some of the Choc Chip Cookies, ginger nuts, Rich Tea (with a cup of tea), Custard cream, bourbon, pink waver, viscount, Jaffa cakes (definitely a cake), fondent fancies, but lately I have a cuppa and just that on its own, I'm having problems with my throat. Btw, seven years! Where's the time gone, wow, nice to see you are ok and still making videos. Stay safe and well.
Hey as an Englishman the more I watch this young lady the more I think she has such a British personality and humour! Uncanny? She is wonderful, hey she would be good on a night out with my granddaughters. Keep smiling!
We used to have a 'tuck shop' at school in the morning break, and Jammie Dodgers were a penny each (1d - an old penny!), and also Wagon Wheels, and I swear they were both 10 times bigger than the latest ones!!
Alanna: "I need a minute, just give me a second." Don't ever change please Alanna. You're awesome (even though you hate Jaffa Cakes which are the loveliest things known tohumanity) and totally unique :)
Yum!! Now you have many biscuits to have a cup of tea with. We have the jammidoggers in Canada but I don't think they are called that and they are in with the Peak Freans. My mum said when she was a kid she would take two of them and put them over her eyes and freak her younger siblings out 😆
There is a proper and safe way to dunk a biscuit and safely bring to the mouth. I’ve noticed you dunk and then lift it up flat side down. Like this 🫓 the weight with the tea in is now pulling down and sure eggs is egg the biscuit will break with the weight in the middle and flop (note the description flop) straight into your tea mug, it’ll splash and you sit there bereft of your full portion of biscuit!!! The approved method of doing the lifting of the biscuit is instead of flat to the table hold it as if you have a wheel in your fingers and rotate it to the upright and carefully move it to the mouth and let the biscuit flop onto the tongue. Easy cream and you’ll have less flops to the mug or table, or with a bigger biscuit - over your hand hitting your sleeve and one half on your trousers and half on the carpet, don’t move you’ll grind it into your carpet Cheers Alana with this safe knowledge happy dunking Hang on you like dunking in bed and I bet you’re over due a big “Flop” on yer pillow. Pink biscuits - I bet a pink biscuit in your minds eye now go admit it Cheers Aah Kid
There's always been debate about which way up you should eat a half-covered chocolate biscuit. Personally, my family, and everyone I know have always eaten them chocolate-side-up, but apparently the official line is that you should eat them with the chocolate side down, so that you get the flavour of the chocolate as it rests on your tongue.
Being of a certain age, reminds me that NICE biscuits were usually kept by grandma in order to serve with sweet sherry when the vicar came. It never occurred to me that the vicar, visiting several parishioners in one afternoon, might have an alcohol problem. However life was much simpler before colour television
Hi Alanna, fun video! Now I'll have to look for some of those British biscuits! Thank you for sharing, take really good care, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x 🌷🌸🌺🌼🌻(Ontario, Canada)
I love your videos Alanna, thank you for sharing! I've been binging your content recently because I'm planning on going to school in the UK and your videos really feed my excitement.
When I first started working in The Nessie Shop, in Drumnadrochit, Scotland, I was told that the best shortbread is Walkers....always check for a high butter content.
Bourbons are definitely better than custard creams, because of the chocolate flavour. Also: How could you?!? Jaffa cakes are brilliant! I thought you were becoming one of us, but if you reject Jaffa Cakes, I really don’t know.
Well, that was a real adventure in my life! I began watching and you liked so many biscuits that I was starting to feel that it was downright unfair tha I had to sit here at home and watch one wonderful cookie after another being enjoyed right before my eyes when I had nothing to eat along with them. Alanna I had to put you on hold in the middle of the episode while I walked over to the grocery store and bought my favorite cookie (Walkers plain Scottish shortbreads) so I would not feel left out during the rest of the episode! A nearby supermarket here does carry several shelves of British biscuits including some from McVities and I will soon be examining all of them to see if I come across any on your perfect list that I should take home. Maybe you could post some kind of warning next time you're enjoying a lot of very appealing food. Like Warning, this espisode contains decadent scenes of a woman savouring wonderful food. You may wish to be prepared with some food of your own at hand during the video so you don't become excessively hungry watching such yummy consumption happening right in front of you. Be safe.😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
In Canada, we have Peek Freans version of Fox' Jam 'n Cream called Fruit Cream, as well as their version of Shortcake, Nice, Digestives and cream biscuits/cookies. Some people may remember that Peek Freans is a name brand originally from the UK. Ownership was split between North America and Europe. The European owners decided to stop using the name, but the name is still around in Canada. The Peek Freans here look so similar but slightly different... maybe Alanna could do a taste comparison in the future after a trip back to Canada. My personal favourite is Walker's shortbread but it's too expensive to buy regularly in Canada.
Love traditional ones you had, but my faves are Oreos, hobnobs, Fox's Ambers, Nutella biscuit and Mcvities blissfuls!! Mmmmm so freaking goooood and FULL OF NUTELLA! YUM!!! Yorkshire gold tea I agree is the best!
My favourite biscuit is a chilled penguin biscuit with a corner bitten off on opposite corners and hot coffee sucked through like a straw then quickly eating bliss !!!
Biscoff aren’t British but they’re the best biscuit by a country mile, also love a custard cream, and digestive and malted with tea! Your correct now I’m hungry
When I was in Uni I used to live off of those digestives and Pound Shop tortilla chips.. Favourite biscuits though Gingersnaps/Ginger Nuts.. oh and Jaffas are awesome
“Let’s take a minute for a second “ lmao 😂😂 I’m watching this video from a hospital bed in Spain ( I moved from the uk) the more I watch the more I want a mug of tea!! Totally impossible to get in my situation. It’s killing me.
So many biscuits! I’d eat them all except the Nice! Like most biscuits, Chocolate Malted Milks are better than the plain ones 😂 Fave has got to be the Custard Cream! I’m probably gonna have to go buy some now lol
On the A6 leading from Manchester to Stockport, there is the McVities factory… you can gain weight by just sniffing the air when there's a bake going on. It's glorious! 😁
Bourbons, custard creams, and foxes creams I'm pleased with the review completely correct they are mighty fine. Jaffa Cakes...... shall we agree to disagree? Send them this way..... all of them!
From what I've seen online, the closest to digestives in America and Canada are Graham crackers, so take a digestive and put a marshmallow and chocolate on it, and another digestive and microwave it, you have the British version of smores. I know Bourbon in America is pronounced like berbon but bourbon creams are pronounced like borbon. Nice biscuits are pronounced like the place in France, as the story is that Queen Victoria went to the town in France and a baker there made the biscuits for her. She liked the so much the biscuits became popular and were named after the town.
We British have been eating biscuits for a long time, I think the ones that have survived the test of time and a fiercely competitive market are the good and cheap ones. Hence the high scores. My favourite biscuits are probably the Borders Dark Chocolate Ginger Biscuits, But if I was only allowed one type of biscuit for the rest of my life I would choose Milk Chocolate Hob Nobs. They are the supreme all-rounder.
yay! you brought your rating system back! :P hehe, also, you hit the pinnacle with crunch creams! keep up the good work canadianado, big love to all people :)
Fox's used to do a biscuit called the Butter Crunch, they were my favourites - i don't see them anymore. They're like the Crunch Creams but without the filling. Delicious dunked in milk. Biscuits without filling are more up my alley. Malted milk are great, i guess our taste buds are just different.
You might enjoy the book Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down. It's about having a sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit with detailed guides for all three aspects including a run down of all the main biscuits.
The Fox's biscuit factory is near us and the whole town often smells of fresh baked biscuits. Did you know they also make many of the supermarkets own brand biscuits? Oh, and Jaffa Cakes - yum!
I'm a Biscoff addict and this evening have polished off a whole tube of the sandwich creams. I'll need to take a 20 mile run tomorrow morning to work off my sugar belly
I'm a child of the 70's from a rural area and I can remember some kids at primary school would have brought in some buttered Digestives or Rich Tea biccies, the only way I would contemplate eating biccies without a cuppa. Calling the Maryland cookies is acceptable as that type of biccy is accepted as being a cookie in the UK understanding of biscuits. I've always assumed Biscoff are extremely sweet for eating with strong coffee, I also think they are very crunchy as a result of the extra sugar. Have you tried the Biscoff spread? Hob Nobs are the SAS of the biscuit dunking world.
As an art student back in 1977-78 every day I went to Batley Art College West Yorkshire. Almost next door to the F E Fox biscuit factory the best quality biscuits in the UK ( in my slightly biased opinion, -other biscuits are available-) If the wind was blowing in the right direction the smell was strong enough to almost taste the bisuits. though the smell could be quite sickly I still think they make great biscuits. Not the cheapest but you get what you pay for.
I enjoy shortbread biscuits, but my favourite BY MILES is Tesco Finest Triple Chocolate Shortbread (4 Pack). If you haven't tried them yet, they will blow your mind!!!
Hard to pick but I would say my favorite biscut is Bourbon Creams, can't get enough of them. My boyfriend loves the chocolate hobnobs so much, a pack rarely surives 2 days
McVities Fruit Shortcake and Garibaldi biscuits are missing from this review. Most Brits love them; as kids we would collectively describe them as 'dead fly biscuits'.
I love how you look at the Malted Milk biscuit multiple times and fail to notice the name written on it! 🤩
I was just going to say this...
😂 so embarrassing lol I couldn't believe it when I finished filming!
Gave me a chuckle, at least Alanna can laugh at herself
Must be the sugar overload 😂
@@lloroshastar6347 It's one of the many reasons she is becoming a national treasure!!
Here's some Jaffa Cake nerdiness: biscuits go soft when stale, whereas cakes go hard and brittle. Jaffa Cakes go hard and brittle when stale, therefore... 😉
That was the argument used in court.
@@davidraphel8769and they won, no VAT!
The meet in the middle with hardness and softness balancing everything out lol😂
So if I leave toast in the toaster too long, it's a cake.
Was this the clincher in court, genius
I'm a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I have to say, you're objectively wrong about Jaffa Cakes. 😂
😂 no way!!
She is 😊
@@AdventuresAndNaps The first jaffa cake always tastes bad, it cleanses the pallet before the 2nd one when they start to taste nice.
I can't stand Jaffa Cakes either. I don't know why but I generally like anything which is "orangey" but not Jaffa Cakes.
I think biscoff is ginger bread? I might be wrong. That could be why they are crispier. Better than chocolate HobNobs are Asda own Chocolate Oaties. They’re amazing!
Was hoping to see ginger nuts on the list,ace with a nice cuppa yorkshire tea.
Yeah! Where's the ginger nuts!
... and Garibaldi, Custard Creams, ...
Yes! The garibaldis, and fig rolls
@@fomalhaut9 Definitely fig rolls for dunking !
@@grahamtravers4522 she did custard creams.
A biscuit without tea is like a hug without a squeeze!
Aye. Wise words that.
Bourbon is not pronounced like the whisky, it’s pronounced bore bonn like the type of vanilla pod that is used to flavour them. If it is a biscuit we dunk, cakes we don’t.
Digestive biscuits with a nice sharp cheddar 👍
Also, chocolate hobnobs are the greatest biscuits.
Also also, Peter Kay's bit on dipping biscuits in tea is one of the funniest pieces of comedy!
Chocolate Hobnobs are good but Chocolate Malted Milks are unbeatable. I find the texture of Hobnobs to be offputting after one or two, whereas I can eat 32,000 choccie malted milks, uninterrupted, in a single sitting. Choccie Hobnobs are fine for the first few and then it feels like I'm eating a cork pinboard.
Plain digestives are wonderful for their versatility. You can put anything on them; cheese, butter, jam, your favourite spread. They can also be crushed to make a base for a pie. I like to make s’mores out of them by topping them with marshmallows and chocolate, then toasting and topping with a second digestive.
Digestives or plain hobnobs - perfect with cheese spread like Laughing Cow! 😋
Digestives are surprisingly nice with cheese. Never knew it were a thing until my mum mentioned it once
You definitely need a part 2 of this video including Ginger Nuts, Ginger Creams, Viennese whirls, Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, Fox's Half-Coated Milk Chocolate Cookies, Penguin, Rocky, Fox's Viennese Raspberry Creams and I'm sure many more!
Don't forget chocolate malted milk! One of my favourites.
Aldi does very nice Viennese raspberry creams, great, cheap alternative to Fox's
Hmm, maybe Penguins, Clubs and Chocolate fingers as a separate third video as chocolate biscuit sweets.But I would definitely add Garibaldi biscuits to the biscuit list.
Hobnobs - they are the marine commando of dunkable biscuits, they never quit, they never dissolve and fall into your tea...
Taxi and blue riband, viscount, club
Surely there should be a follow-up video? Same biscuits but with a nice, hot cup of tea.
@T LV Surely there should be a follow-up biscuit? Same tea but with a nice, hot cup of videos.
😂 omg
There's an oxymoron in there somewhere. 'Nice' and 'tea'!!
@@paigehastings3221 That's fighting talk in the UK!!!!!
In the three years that I lived in London I got most of my biscuits at work from our tea lady. I didn’t pay attention to what they were but they were always good. At the same time I was receiving care packages from home which included my Granny’s homemade biscuits or cookies as we called them. They were hard to beat. So thanks for the taste test. I may have never purchased any of these but I most certainly ate some of them except Jaffa cakes. I would remember those as I don’t care for orange with chocolate.
My fave bikkie, The Mint Viscount. But re the McVitie digestive, their relative neutral flavour makes them great as savoury treats too. Try one buttered, with a slice of cheddar (other cheeses are available 🙂) with a splodge of Branston pickle on top. A great combo.
Hadn't thought of that! Thanks for watching!
It is a very minty biscuit
Great with Stilton.
I agree, mint viscounts are my favourite too
I haven't seen Viscount since the 80s.
I'd totally forgotten about them.
Jaffa Cakes are definitely cakes. They are made out of cake batter and they are amazing.
Also is says so right there in the name Jaffa CAKES!
The general rule is that cakes go hard with age, and biscuits lose their crispness and go soggy. That's what won the taxation case.
@@brianwhittington5086 That plus they made a 12 inch Jaffa cake. Still sold in the biscuit aisle though!
@@dawn5227
Doesn’t matter so much what is printed on the box. The composition of the product is what matters most in determining what it is.
@hairyairey I never bought the big one, still regularly buy the normal size ones. I do prefer the originals for quality, but there's so many copies out there now, some good and others not so good.
Bourbon "borb-on" biscuits are my favourite biscuits and Jaffa Cake my favourite cake 😊
The custard cream will never be topped, undisputed biscuit GOAT
You really need to try Hobnobs - they are the special forces of dunkable biscuits, they never quit, they never dissolve and fall into your tea...
@@chrissmith2114 what I’m about to say may be treason but I don’t drink tea…remove dunkability from the thought process and the CC is clear
Exactly! The nation's most guiltiest pleasure. I had an entire packet in a day and I don't even feel bad about it
A rule I heard for 'is it a biscuit or a cake?' Biscuits go soft when they become stale whereas cakes go hard when they become stale. A Jaffa cake becomes hard when it goes stale so it's a cake. 😉
The only qualifier for Jaffa Cakes being a biscuit is they're small and round. They're called cakes, made of cakes, have the same stale properties as cake and are classed as cakes legally.
If you cut a chocolate brownie into a circle, it doesn't become a biscuit.
The clue is in the name.
@@SaintPhoenixx I agree and if small and round is a quantifier then I offer up cup cakes, fairy cakes, jam tarts and several others. The only reason I see for people (wrongly) believing they're biscuits is the packaging and the aisle they are sold in.
The definition is actually mostly in the process. Biscuits are double baked, once to cook, second time to go crispy. Cakes are baked once. - like US cookies, which remain soft and partly chewy. some where between a cake and a cookie is a brownie, also single baked
There was an episode of QI that Stephen Fry said the makers of Jaffa Cakes baked one that was Cake size to prove to the government that it was a cake not a biscuit
Jaffa cakes are literally my favourite 😂
Nothing can beat a chocolate hob nob or should I say packet of chocolate hob nobs, much as I love many of the others including Biscoff, Jaffa Cakes and all the cream biscuits.
Rich tea biscuits with tea are the best (sometimes the simplest things are wonderfully rewarding) 😊
Yes, I will die on the hill that Rich Teas are underrated! Yes they're plain, but it just means you can eat more of them! Amazing hangover cure as well!
Strictly to be with tea.
Yep, I agree!! Great with a brew
Digestive biscuit with Philadelphia cheese on is heaven.
but whatever you do, don't dunk!.........
Yes, or salted butter!
Oh! Sorry for the second comment, but Biscoff is Belgian, not British. We have a bit of an addiction to them here (and they're accidentally vegan, so the British vegan community went NUTS for them when they first came out over here about a decade ago).
If you mix the Biscoff spread with vanilla buttercream icing and whack it in the freezer overnight, you can chop it into slices and it's a delicious quick and easy dessert. Although it is VERY sweet so I've only ever been able to eat tiny slices of it. My friend does the same with peanut butter instead of biscoff, and you can also chop up chocolate bars or whatever and mix it in. The Caramilk bar works well for it. Num num num.
Cheesecake with Biscoff base and peanut butter topping - Maltesers for decoration.
Trust me...🤤🤤
The Biscoff topping is just too over the top, you can feel your teeth rotting it's so sweet.
Thought so. Is speculoos the correct term?
@@HopeVReason Yes and no. Speculoos/speculaas are a type of biscuit and Biscoff is a brand that makes them. Biscoff is Belgian where they call these biscuits speculoos, but some other places call them Speculaas. Not sure where the biscuits come from originally, although... Google tells me the Netherlands!
@@xneurianx Thank you
I make it a rule never to trust anyone who doesn't like The Beatles, Monty Python or Jaffa Cakes 😵 At Christmas I eat the whole 'Yard of Jaffa Cakes' that they sell in a long festive box all in one sitting. Truly the food of the Gods 😍
I can demolish a pack of Nice biscuits in one sitting. Who am I kidding, I could demolish any of these.
😂
James, that isn’t healthy. Cheers 👍🏻
If you like biscuits with cream filling, Alanna, I think you’d like lemon puffs. They are also traditional, but you don’t see them so much these days. They’re made with puff pastry and filled with lemon cream. They’re delicious.
Digestives with crumbly wensleydale cheese at christmas is a must for me. A tradition handed down from my yorkshire mother haha
There's nothing wrong with calling a maryland a cookie , apart from giant cookies you can buy in supermarkets we've always called biscuits biscuits and mary land cookies specifically cookies
I’m from the US and while in England last year I had Jaffa Cakes. I think they’re awesome!
I have to say, we do biscuits very, VERY well in this country. I would happily eat every single one of the ones you tried.
- Chocolate HobNobs are loved by everybody. They weren't around when I was growing up, but they just work
- have never tried the Biscoff creams, but will deffo give them a go
- Custard Creams are so sweet, but they are also SO nostalgic that I still love them
- those raspberry cream ones are delicious. I prefer Happy Faces, which are similar, but have cream and jam!
- Jaffa Cakes are a cake, because as they age, they dry out and become like rock (just like any other cake). When biscuits age, they go soft
- glad your partner corrected you on the pronunciation of Nice biscuits!
- the only classic one you didn't try was Rich Tea biscuits, but on their own without a cuppa they are dry as hell
- my favourite-ever biscuit (which you can't buy anymore) were Gypsy Creams. They were like Bourbons crossed with the Fox Crunch Creams - rich but not sickly, bags of flavour, delicious!
Hate to tell you but I can't stand any version of hobnobs.
Besides Rich Tea, there's also Morning Coffee… although now I think about it, I haven't seen them in years.
To all those Jaffa Cake aficionados out there (and I'm one) if you buy McVities then you must have more money than sense. My local Supermarket is ASDA and I buy their own label Jaffa Cakes. Believe me, there's no difference, in fact I've started having the lemon ones - they still do the traditional orange ones and strawberry ones. A couple of years or so ago, McVities used to sell Jaffa Cakes with 12 cakes in a box, then it went down to 11 and now it's down to 10 cakes in a box. What's more, the price is somewhere in the region of around £1.20. ASDA brand is around the 80p mark - and there are still 12 cakes in the box.
Try some mature cheddar with the digestive. A company named 'BORDER' makes ginger biscuits covered in dark chocolate, amazing.
Bourbons all the way. Also, Digestives with Brie, Camembert, Stilton, strong Cheddar, absolutely delicious.
Shortbread with Malted Milk written on them 😮
Must be a collectors piece.😊
Jaffa Cakes, if you leave a biscuit and a cake out in the open, a cake will go hard, and a biscuit will go soft, a Jaffa will go hard, that's how they won there case ❤️✌️
That’s interesting.
Hey Alanna - many years ago, when the Maryland Chocolate Chip cookies first arrived in the UK, they were much bigger, much more 'rugged' and were almost kind of dome-shaped. Sadly, I think they have been a victim of the insidious trend for making the product smaller/less substantial while maintaining the same price. Oh, and I can totally vouch for your sponsor - I've slept on an Emma mattress for the last couple of years and it is AMAZING.
I think the size of things altered when our then EU masters started meddling with product sizes and names we had known for decades. It was responsible for a lot of things changing, including area specific identification like, Sherry became Fortified Wine if not made there, Cornish Pasties and Melton Mowbray pork pies were some of many forced changes. Cutting back on size just made people buy even more, so defeating the objective.
@@brianwhittington5086 Nice try, but nothing to do with the EU at all. More to do with retaining the same amount of profit for less product. And as for "area specific identification", you'll find that's been of huge benefit to those manufacturers, but less so to the poor quality imitators. So it's not 'meddling' at all - it's sensible clarification.
@thetragicyouth Not so, the EU are heavily into regulations for both. I believe it's contained within article 26 of the regulations to restric the production of area specific produce and where its ingredients are allowed to be sourced. The E mark is also used to denote that a product conforms to all the regulations on it's size, ingredients sourcing etc. It's not just food, many things fell foul of the dreaded E mark that covered products made in the EU, or imported into any EU trade area. Any restrictions on importing and using global commodities is to control taxation tariffs.
@@brianwhittington5086 Boris and Farage were lying. And 'sovereignty' doesn't pay the bills. And in any case, the EU wouldn't be "meddling' with Maryland cookies because Maryland is not in the EU... trying to shoehorn anti-EU sentiment into a discussion of the shrinking size of Maryland cookies is risible. 🤣🤣🤣
@@brianwhittington5086 Brexit has been an amazing success, of course. Said no-one ever, except Tory ministers.
Chocolate hobnobs are my elite. I've always been fond of malted milks as well, but I love anything malted so that's that. Am also partial to a Garibaldi and a ginger nut.
Alanna, you're way too polite, Maryland Cookies are a one hit job, all in at once!!😂😂
Digestives are used as a pie base quite often - where Graham Crackers would be used in Canada, cheesecakes etc.
Rule of thumb if it goes soft when uncovered and left out, biscuit, if it goes hard, it's a ckae, therefore Jaffa cakes are a cake.
One more comment, Alanna: if you're a biscuit fan, you _have to_ go on a weekend trip to Holland to try their cookies (Dutch: _koekje,_ which I think is where American cookies get their name). They as very different to British biscuits, but amazing! Buy a couple of bagfuls to bring home and also try some fresh _koekjes_ in bakeries too.
Alanna: "let's take a minute for a second."
Me: "this lady knows her biscuits but seems a bit confused about the passage of time."
Now trying to figure out how many minutes the IIS takes a second...
McVities Difedtives make the perfect cheesecake base ....300g finely crushed , 80g melted butter , 1 tablespoon runny honey
*Digestive*
Alanna your videos are such a vibe!! I will know what biscuits to try when I move to London!
In the past, I have had some of the Choc Chip Cookies, ginger nuts, Rich Tea (with a cup of tea), Custard cream, bourbon, pink waver, viscount, Jaffa cakes (definitely a cake), fondent fancies, but lately I have a cuppa and just that on its own, I'm having problems with my throat. Btw, seven years! Where's the time gone, wow, nice to see you are ok and still making videos. Stay safe and well.
who else thought that was a long time, when she said the Hobnobs lasted a couple of DAYS,
Hey as an Englishman the more I watch this young lady the more I think she has such a British personality and humour! Uncanny? She is wonderful, hey she would be good on a night out with my granddaughters. Keep smiling!
Great video Alanna! Can't have a biscuit without a nice cuppa. I am a big fan of a ginger nut :-)
We used to have a 'tuck shop' at school in the morning break, and Jammie Dodgers were a penny each (1d - an old penny!), and also Wagon Wheels, and I swear they were both 10 times bigger than the latest ones!!
Having lived in the UK for 20 years, you sure made my mouth water today
Alanna: "I need a minute, just give me a second." Don't ever change please Alanna. You're awesome (even though you hate Jaffa Cakes which are the loveliest things known tohumanity) and totally unique :)
Yum!! Now you have many biscuits to have a cup of tea with. We have the jammidoggers in Canada but I don't think they are called that and they are in with the Peak Freans. My mum said when she was a kid she would take two of them and put them over her eyes and freak her younger siblings out 😆
There is a proper and safe way to dunk a biscuit and safely bring to the mouth.
I’ve noticed you dunk and then lift it up flat side down. Like this 🫓 the weight with the tea in is now pulling down and sure eggs is egg the biscuit will break with the weight in the middle and flop (note the description flop) straight into your tea mug, it’ll splash and you sit there bereft of your full portion of biscuit!!! The approved method of doing the lifting of the biscuit is instead of flat to the table hold it as if you have a wheel in your fingers and rotate it to the upright and carefully move it to the mouth and let the biscuit flop onto the tongue. Easy cream and you’ll have less flops to the mug or table, or with a bigger biscuit - over your hand hitting your sleeve and one half on your trousers and half on the carpet, don’t move you’ll grind it into your carpet
Cheers Alana with this safe knowledge happy dunking
Hang on you like dunking in bed and I bet you’re over due a big “Flop” on yer pillow.
Pink biscuits - I bet a pink biscuit in your minds eye now go admit it
Cheers Aah Kid
There's always been debate about which way up you should eat a half-covered chocolate biscuit. Personally, my family, and everyone I know have always eaten them chocolate-side-up, but apparently the official line is that you should eat them with the chocolate side down, so that you get the flavour of the chocolate as it rests on your tongue.
Being of a certain age, reminds me that NICE biscuits were usually kept by grandma in order to serve with sweet sherry when the vicar came. It never occurred to me that the vicar, visiting several parishioners in one afternoon, might have an alcohol problem. However life was much simpler before colour television
Hi Alanna, fun video! Now I'll have to look for some of those British biscuits! Thank you for sharing, take really good care, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x 🌷🌸🌺🌼🌻(Ontario, Canada)
I once went on a factory tour at Fox’s a billion years ago. Best day ever.
chocolate chip cookies are the only biscuits you can legitimately call cookies!
But the Maryland cookies are rubbish! 😂
@@wilmaknickersfitthey’re not rubbish. They’re lush.
I love your videos Alanna, thank you for sharing! I've been binging your content recently because I'm planning on going to school in the UK and your videos really feed my excitement.
Maryland cookies are quite morish. You open a packet and, before you know it, you've basically inhaled the whole thing. Dangerously tasty.
When I first started working in The Nessie Shop, in Drumnadrochit, Scotland, I was told that the best shortbread is Walkers....always check for a high butter content.
You need a Tunnocks caramel wafer and a Tunnocks tea cake
Fox's Crunch Creams, are really nice, next time I see them in a shop, I'm going i buy them. Thanks.
Bourbons are definitely better than custard creams, because of the chocolate flavour.
Also: How could you?!? Jaffa cakes are brilliant! I thought you were becoming one of us, but if you reject Jaffa Cakes, I really don’t know.
13:29 "Let's just take a minute for a second" 🤣
Well, that was a real adventure in my life! I began watching and you liked so many biscuits that I was starting to feel that it was downright unfair tha I had to sit here at home and watch one wonderful cookie after another being enjoyed right before my eyes when I had nothing to eat along with them. Alanna I had to put you on hold in the middle of the episode while I walked over to the grocery store and bought my favorite cookie (Walkers plain Scottish shortbreads) so I would not feel left out during the rest of the episode! A nearby supermarket here does carry several shelves of British biscuits including some from McVities and I will soon be examining all of them to see if I come across any on your perfect list that I should take home. Maybe you could post some kind of warning next time you're enjoying a lot of very appealing food. Like Warning, this espisode contains decadent scenes of a woman savouring wonderful food. You may wish to be prepared with some food of your own at hand during the video so you don't become excessively hungry watching such yummy consumption happening right in front of you. Be safe.😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
In Canada, we have Peek Freans version of Fox' Jam 'n Cream called Fruit Cream, as well as their version of Shortcake, Nice, Digestives and cream biscuits/cookies. Some people may remember that Peek Freans is a name brand originally from the UK. Ownership was split between North America and Europe. The European owners decided to stop using the name, but the name is still around in Canada. The Peek Freans here look so similar but slightly different... maybe Alanna could do a taste comparison in the future after a trip back to Canada.
My personal favourite is Walker's shortbread but it's too expensive to buy regularly in Canada.
I ordered some McVitty's Digestive Biscuits after watching how they're made on Inside the Factory. Delicious! 🍪🇬🇧
Ahh incredible!
I used to drive past the factory in Stockport most days. The smell of baking biscuits must have doubled house prices in the surrounding area.
Love traditional ones you had, but my faves are Oreos, hobnobs, Fox's Ambers, Nutella biscuit and Mcvities blissfuls!! Mmmmm so freaking goooood and FULL OF NUTELLA! YUM!!! Yorkshire gold tea I agree is the best!
Where's your cuppa???
Yorkshire Tea likely! 😂
My favourite biscuit is a chilled penguin biscuit with a corner bitten off on opposite corners and hot coffee sucked through like a straw then quickly eating bliss !!!
Biscoff aren’t British but they’re the best biscuit by a country mile, also love a custard cream, and digestive and malted with tea! Your correct now I’m hungry
Biscoff hail from Belgium
When I was in Uni I used to live off of those digestives and Pound Shop tortilla chips.. Favourite biscuits though Gingersnaps/Ginger Nuts.. oh and Jaffas are awesome
The chocolate hobnob, the king of biscuits. Loved the video👍🏻
Jaffa cakes by mcvitties 😘😘😘
Lidl’s are the best.
“Let’s take a minute for a second “ lmao 😂😂 I’m watching this video from a hospital bed in Spain ( I moved from the uk) the more I watch the more I want a mug of tea!! Totally impossible to get in my situation. It’s killing me.
So many biscuits! I’d eat them all except the Nice!
Like most biscuits, Chocolate Malted Milks are better than the plain ones 😂
Fave has got to be the Custard Cream! I’m probably gonna have to go buy some now lol
oh my god I didn't know chocolate ones existed! I'll have to try those next 🥳
Jaffa Cakes, the orange and chocolate just fit together so well.
You have to try Terry’s Chocolate Orange, there so good.
On the A6 leading from Manchester to Stockport, there is the McVities factory… you can gain weight by just sniffing the air when there's a bake going on. It's glorious! 😁
The fox's jam and cream are lovely and at 79p a packet in sainsburys very affordable if you eat them all very quickly 😂
Bourbons, custard creams, and foxes creams I'm pleased with the review completely correct they are mighty fine. Jaffa Cakes...... shall we agree to disagree? Send them this way..... all of them!
From what I've seen online, the closest to digestives in America and Canada are Graham crackers, so take a digestive and put a marshmallow and chocolate on it, and another digestive and microwave it, you have the British version of smores.
I know Bourbon in America is pronounced like berbon but bourbon creams are pronounced like borbon.
Nice biscuits are pronounced like the place in France, as the story is that Queen Victoria went to the town in France and a baker there made the biscuits for her. She liked the so much the biscuits became popular and were named after the town.
The chocolate HobNob is up there with the invention of the wheel. What a biscuit.
We British have been eating biscuits for a long time, I think the ones that have survived the test of time and a fiercely competitive market are the good and cheap ones. Hence the high scores. My favourite biscuits are probably the Borders Dark Chocolate Ginger Biscuits, But if I was only allowed one type of biscuit for the rest of my life I would choose Milk Chocolate Hob Nobs. They are the supreme all-rounder.
Favourite biscuit: a savoury one, Bath Oliver. With a smear of butter, and a really good cheese.
yay! you brought your rating system back! :P hehe, also, you hit the pinnacle with crunch creams! keep up the good work canadianado, big love to all people :)
Crunch creams are my favourite! Theyre so good! I also agree with you on jaffa cakes
We British definitely love a biscuit, lol. Jaffa cakes are cakes, though!
Fox's used to do a biscuit called the Butter Crunch, they were my favourites - i don't see them anymore. They're like the Crunch Creams but without the filling. Delicious dunked in milk.
Biscuits without filling are more up my alley.
Malted milk are great, i guess our taste buds are just different.
You might enjoy the book Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down. It's about having a sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit with detailed guides for all three aspects including a run down of all the main biscuits.
The Fox's biscuit factory is near us and the whole town often smells of fresh baked biscuits. Did you know they also make many of the supermarkets own brand biscuits? Oh, and Jaffa Cakes - yum!
I'm a Biscoff addict and this evening have polished off a whole tube of the sandwich creams. I'll need to take a 20 mile run tomorrow morning to work off my sugar belly
My favourite biscuit? All of them!!!
I'm a child of the 70's from a rural area and I can remember some kids at primary school would have brought in some buttered Digestives or Rich Tea biccies, the only way I would contemplate eating biccies without a cuppa. Calling the Maryland cookies is acceptable as that type of biccy is accepted as being a cookie in the UK understanding of biscuits. I've always assumed Biscoff are extremely sweet for eating with strong coffee, I also think they are very crunchy as a result of the extra sugar. Have you tried the Biscoff spread? Hob Nobs are the SAS of the biscuit dunking world.
As an art student back in 1977-78 every day I went to Batley Art College West Yorkshire. Almost next door to the F E Fox biscuit factory the best quality biscuits in the UK ( in my slightly biased opinion, -other biscuits are available-) If the wind was blowing in the right direction the smell was strong enough to almost taste the bisuits. though the smell could be quite sickly I still think they make great biscuits. Not the cheapest but you get what you pay for.
Fox's Ginger Crunch Creams are definitely worth a try.
I enjoy shortbread biscuits, but my favourite BY MILES is Tesco Finest Triple Chocolate Shortbread (4 Pack). If you haven't tried them yet, they will blow your mind!!!
I'm having a tesco shop delivered on Friday, I just added those to my order 😊 they sound lovely.
Best plain biscuit - Shortcake
Best chocolate biscuit - Cadbury's fingers
Best shortbread biscuit - Tesco shortbread petticoat tails
Hard to pick but I would say my favorite biscut is Bourbon Creams, can't get enough of them. My boyfriend loves the chocolate hobnobs so much, a pack rarely surives 2 days
My fav is a fox's butter crinkle crunch. So good. Also can't beat a rocky bar.
Digestive with butter, Alana Another sweet video, thanks. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
McVities Fruit Shortcake and Garibaldi biscuits are missing from this review. Most Brits love them; as kids we would collectively describe them as 'dead fly biscuits'.
I too love the Fox's crunch creams.
Biskoff originated in Belgium I believe maybe that's why they are a bit different.