What's the different between biscuits and cookies?

Question

I want to know about the shape, taste, colour, and so on. All differences between them are available. The more, the better. I will quite appeciate if you can show me some pictures of them.

Answer 1

A biscuit is a small baked bread or cake. The exact meaning varies markedly in different parts of the world, sometimes leading to confusion. The origin of the word "biscuit" is from Latin via Middle French and means "twice cooked".

In the United States and Canada, a cookie (sometimes spelled cooky) is a small, flat baked cake. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings—a cookie is a bun in Scotland, while in North America a biscuit is a kind of quick bread.

Cookies can be baked until crisp or just long enough that they remain soft, depending on the type of cookie. Some cookies are not cooked at all. Cookies are made in a wide variety of styles, using an array of ingredients including sugars, spices, chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts or dried fruits.

A general theory of cookies may be formulated this way. Despite their descent from cakes and other sweetened breads, the cookie in almost all its forms has abandoned water as a medium for cohesion. Water in cakes serves to make the base (in the case of cakes called 'Dough') as thin as possible, which allows the bubbles – responsible for a cake's fluffiness – to form better. In the cookie, the agent of cohesion has become some variation of the theme of oil. Oils, be they in the form of butter, egg yolks, vegetable oils or lard are much more viscous than water and evaporate freely at a much higher temperature than water. Thus a cake made with butter or eggs instead of water is far denser after removal from the oven.

A basic biscuit (cookie) recipe includes flour, shortening (often lard), baking powder or soda, milk (buttermilk or sweet milk) and sugar. Common savoury variations involve substituting sugar with an ingredient such as cheese or other dairy products.

Answer 2

same shape but doesn't have to be cookies can be creative and shaped as actual things rather then circles and could be cookie bars look almost like brownies. cookies are made sweet with brown sugar and sugar but biscuits have a sugar flavor but not so sweet more of a salty bland taste depending on what u add to the mix.... the color is golden brown for biscuits for cookies its a deep golden brown. biscuits can be made differently with butter soaped into the biscuit make it a butter biscuit and or flakey or buttermilk can be used cookies are more oily because vegetable oil or some sort of oil or butter is used in the mix they normally have candy mixed into their batter like chocolate chips m&ms reeses pieces and so forth. Cookies are more of a snack time thing can go with a glass of milk or alone biscuits are more of a dinner thing can go with fried chicken like KFC and with the heartiest of soups and stews for cold winter days

Answer 3

Cookies will have something like chocolate chips or fruity bits in, but biscuits will have a layer of chocolate on. Also, biscuits are usually flat, but cookies are bumpy..

Answer 4

I always thought that cookie was just an American word for biscuits. I thought they were the same thing.

Answer 5

It is the country your eating them in, I eat Choc Chip Bikkies or Biscuits, not Cookies...it pains me to even type Cookies (arghh) that word just sounds poxy to me. Biscuits forever, dry biscuits, sweet biscuits, cream filled biscuits...NO COOKIES arghh

Answer 6

Biscuits aren't sweet and cookies are. But biscuit type cookies are a bit sweet but they have no leavening. They are very crispy.

Answer 7

i think biscuits are more used for tea while cookies are more sugary.

Answer 8

They are the same to me. LOL

Answer 9

i think they alll r same. mam..