Biscuits and Cookies

Biscuits and Cookies

Biscuits and cookies are really easy to make, and way better than shop bought. One of the best things about making them yourself, is that they don't really need to be perfect in size and shape, in fact the more 'rustic' they look the better they taste.

The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch more biscuit recipes including Semolina Shortbreads, Crystallised Ginger Oat Biscuits, Almond Biscotti and Whole Oat Crunchies, being made in our video. Just click the recipe image to play.

Most of this collection is from the book Delia's Cakes, and here you will find old favourites such as shortbread, Garibaldi and gingerbread men. Delia has added chocolate chips to ginger nuts, but if you prefer a straightforward chocolate chip cookie you'll find them here too. If you have any budding atheletes at home..... Read more

Banana and Chocolate Chip Slices are served to the football players at Norwich City to give a boost to energy. We have three shortbread recipes as well as a traditional semolina shortbread, you'll find walnut and Grasmere ginger. Sables for serving with pre-dinner drinks and biscotti for serving with coffee afterwards!

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Almond Biscotti

I think these twice-baked, very crisp biscuits are great for children to make and eat. After that, the a...

I think these twice-baked, very crisp biscuits are great for children to make and eat. After that, the adults in true Italian fashion sit down with a glass of chill...

Apricot Oat Slices

The day we tested these lovely, oaty, chewy cakes, I took them to a football club board meeting, and they a...

The day we tested these lovely, oaty, chewy cakes, I took them to a football club board meeting, and they all disappeared in moments. The Delia Online Cookery Schoo...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

Apricot and Nut Crunchies

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don'...

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don't have to tiptoe around to enjoy these fantastically moreish...

Banana and Chocolate Chip Slice

This recipe is adapted from one given to me by Tony Carver, the chef who cooks for Norwich City Football Cl...

This recipe is adapted from one given to me by Tony Carver, the chef who cooks for Norwich City Football Club players at their training ground in Colney. He says ma...

35 minutes - 40 minutes

Brazil Nut Brownies

Brownies need introducing to those who have not yet made them. Yes, they are cakes but not in the conven...

Brownies need introducing to those who have not yet made them. Yes, they are cakes but not in the conventional sense. They are supposed to be moist and squashy, and...

Cherry and Almond Crunchies

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don'...

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don't have to tiptoe around to enjoy these fantastically moreish...

Chocolate Crunchies

Although you can now buy really good-quality biscuits and American cookies, making them at home still has t...

Although you can now buy really good-quality biscuits and American cookies, making them at home still has the edge, and as biscuits are so easy, it's a very good place...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

These have a history. In the first book someone – could have been me – failed to notice there were no ch...

These have a history. In the first book someone – could have been me – failed to notice there were no chocolate chips included. We were informed by a lady who wrote...

15 minutes - 16 minutes

Chocolate Chip Ginger Nuts

I don't know who invented the expression 'that takes the biscuit', but home-made ginger nuts are, I think, ...

I don't know who invented the expression 'that takes the biscuit', but home-made ginger nuts are, I think, precisely what that expression is trying to convey. Then ...

15 minutes - 20 minutes

Chocolate Orange Biscuits

If you like chocolate and orange as a combination, then forget Jaffa Cakes. These are in a completely di...

If you like chocolate and orange as a combination, then forget Jaffa Cakes. These are in a completely different class. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch mor...

Chocolate and Prune Brownies

Prunes and chocolate are, for me, a heavenly partnership, especially if soaked in Armagnac. The Delia On...

Prunes and chocolate are, for me, a heavenly partnership, especially if soaked in Armagnac. The Delia Online Cookery School: In our Chocolate Cakes lesson, Delia sh...

Coffee and Hazelnut Macaroons

You can also make very tiny biscuits and serve them in cases as petits fours. If you leave out the...

You can also make very tiny biscuits and serve them in cases as petits fours. If you leave out the coffee, these crunchy little hazelnut biscuits are excellen...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

Ginger Oat Biscuits

These have always been personal favourites, and in this edition we have added chopped crystallised ginger a...

These have always been personal favourites, and in this edition we have added chopped crystallised ginger and made them even better. The Delia Onine Cookery School:...

20 minutes - 22 minutes

Flapjacks

There has been a bit of toing and froing on this one, and a fifty-fifty split among our tasters. Some li...

There has been a bit of toing and froing on this one, and a fifty-fifty split among our tasters. Some like them richer and very buttery, some like them drier and wi...

40 minutes - 45 minutes

Garibaldi Biscuits

Still lovely after all these years. Still popular with children and with everyone else. The Delia Onl...

Still lovely after all these years. Still popular with children and with everyone else. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch more biscuit recipes being made in...

12 minutes - 15 minutes

Gingerbread Men

This very well-behaved dough can put up with quite a bit of punishment, and is therefore ideal for children...

This very well-behaved dough can put up with quite a bit of punishment, and is therefore ideal for children to play around with. You can buy proper cutters for maki...

10 minutes - 15 minutes

Gingernuts

Straight from the old book into the new, with not a hint of change. Same crisp crunchiness, same snap as...

Straight from the old book into the new, with not a hint of change. Same crisp crunchiness, same snap as you break one in half, and same reminder of how very much b...

10 minutes - 15 minutes

Grasmere Ginger Shortbreads

I will always be grateful to the Hunter family in Cumbria who served these in their lakeside hotel, and who...

I will always be grateful to the Hunter family in Cumbria who served these in their lakeside hotel, and who kindly gave me the recipe because I loved them so much. ...

Macaroons

Light, almondy and chewy, most people love macaroons with their edible rice paper bases. You may like to...

Light, almondy and chewy, most people love macaroons with their edible rice paper bases. You may like to know that, for a change, the recipe works very well with gr...

25 minutes - 30 minutes

Oat and Raisin Cookies

No changes here on these almost classic biscuits, but now you could replace the raisins with dried sour che...

No changes here on these almost classic biscuits, but now you could replace the raisins with dried sour cherries or dried cranberries to ring the changes. The Delia...

16 minutes - 18 minutes

Peanut Butter Biscuits

These, because they always love them, are good for children to make. But don’t let that stop you making ...

These, because they always love them, are good for children to make. But don’t let that stop you making them for grown-ups as well. The Delia Online Cookery Scho...

Pistachio Sables

This recipe was kindly given to me by the Head Pastry Chef, Mark Mitson, at The Blakeney Hotel in Norfolk, ...

This recipe was kindly given to me by the Head Pastry Chef, Mark Mitson, at The Blakeney Hotel in Norfolk, where they are served in the bar with drinks, but only if yo...

13 minutes - 13 minutes

Raisin Hazelnut Crunchies

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don'...

You can almost imagine sneaking in to quickly grab one of these from under the cook's nose. But you don't have to tiptoe around to enjoy these fantastically moreish...

Semolina Shortbreads

This will always be the very best shortbread I’ve tasted. The secret of its success is the inclusion of ...

This will always be the very best shortbread I’ve tasted. The secret of its success is the inclusion of semolina, which gives it that special texture. I will always...

1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes

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