What's the difference between a cookie and a biscuit?!


Question: What's the difference between a cookie and a biscuit!?
Answers:
In North America a Biscuit is a baking powder bread, similar to a scone, it's generally very like in color as is eaten with butter, jam, or other spreads you'd put on toast!. A cookie is a dessert snack!. It's sweet and is eaten as it is, or sometime dunked in milk!. For example an Oreo is a cookie!.

From what I understand in the UK the word biscuit is used to describe what would be a cookie in north america, but they tend to be harder in texture!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Cookie is the American word for a sweet biscuit, biscuits are savoury!. However, Brits and Australians refer to cookies as biscuits and biscuits as biscuits so there is no difference between the two!. They tend to regard the word cookie as more American (which it is) and commercial (which it is also)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Biscuits are a light fluffy bread product eaten with butter and jelly or smothered in sausage gravy !. !. !.

Cookies are a flat sweet treat, eaten with a glass of milk, usually they have yummy things like chocolate chips and nuts baked into themWww@FoodAQ@Com

Amercians refer to bisuits as cookies, BUT they do tend to be richer, and less dry than a traditional "english" style bisuit,Www@FoodAQ@Com

A cookie is a specific type of biscuit so biscuit could mean anythingWww@FoodAQ@Com

Cookies are flat and sweet, and biscuits are puffed high and not sweet!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

cookies are more of a cross between a cake and a biscuitWww@FoodAQ@Com





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