It's official: shortbread is the nation's favourite biscuit. Want to make some for you and your family?
UK's favourite biscuits (IWOOT) Claiming the top spot is the delicious, caramelised rectangle-shaped, Lotus Biscoff. The biscuit originated in 1932 in a local bakery in Lembeke, a Belgian town and to this day the tasty biscuit continues to conquer the world.
Belvita is the most popular breakfast biscuit in the world, while the Oreo is the number one cookie. First sold 1912, the Oreo has become the world's top selling sandwich biscuit.
The number one spot for Australia's most popular biscuit we easily give to Tim Tam because everyone who has any knowledge of Australia's culture knows that Tim Tams are a prototype of the country's sweet treats.
1. Parle Biscuits – World's Largest Selling Biscuit Brand. Parle-G is a childhood memory of many Indians. Parle Products Private Limited owns the largest and most consumed biscuit brand in India.
Aberffraw biscuits are said to be Britain's oldest biscuit! The Welsh shortbread is pressed with the shape of a scallop shell and are made with high quality ingredients to create a rich, buttery shortbread.
Digestives, malted milks and Maryland cookies are among the least favoured biscuits.
Scotch eggs are one of Britain's most popular snacks, consisting of hard-boiled eggs that are encased in sausage meat and coated in breadcrumbs.
American biscuits are small, fluffy quick breads, leavened with baking powder or buttermilk and served with butter and jam or gravy. They are close to what the British would call scones.
Favourite afternoon treat 'by far'
Little less known was her love of chocolate biscuit cake, typically returning to nibble on it until the entire cake was finished, according to Chef Darren McGrady, her former personal chef.
Pillai became known in India as the 'Biscuit King' or 'Biscuit Baron'.
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I.
If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
A Biscuit (U.S.) Is a Scone (U.K.)
Both baked goodies use flour, fat, liquid and a leavening agent.
Sandwiches, crumpets, scones, cake, or biscuits often accompany tea, which gave rise to the prominent British custom of dunking a biscuit into tea.
Scone (UK) / Biscuit (US)
These are the crumbly cakes that British people call scones, which you eat with butter, jam, sometimes clotted cream and always a cup of tea.
Tim Tam Original is Arnott's most popular biscuit of all time, with 669 million individual Tim Tam biscuits indulged in every year.
Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian company specialised in food industry, part of the Wadia Group headed by Nusli Wadia. Founded in 1892 and headquartered in Kolkata, it is one of India's oldest existing companies and best known for its biscuit products.
Otherwise known as the “world's most expensive cookie,” going for $1,000 when it was released in 2019 by Sofia Demetriou, the owner of Duchess Cookies in New York City.
And the honour of most popular biscuit surprisingly doesn't go to the iconic Tim Tam, but to the understated, highly versatile Jatz (Savoy if you're in Victoria or Tasmania).
Gingernuts, one of Griffin's oldest biscuits, is also the most popular. Kiwis dunk, nibble and chomp their way through 107 million Gingernuts every year.