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10 must-try recipes to satisfy your cookie cravings

Is your sweet tooth calling? Perfect. International Biscuit Day falls on Thursday, May 29, and it’s the only excuse you need to preheat the oven, grab a mixing bowl, and get your bake on.

10 recipes
This tea cake recipe is easy to make and very forgiving.

Baker Bleu’s chocolate rye tahini cookies

You can use any kind of jam here, but Stephanie Alexander’s mum’s kumquat marmalade is a must try.
EASY

Helen Goh’s almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Emelia Jackson’s blueberry crumble cookies.
EASY

Emelia Jackson’s blueberry cookies with a crumble topping

  • < 30 mins
  • Emelia Jackson
Brown cinnamon biscuits.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s brown cinnamon biscuits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Chocolate, rye and espresso cookies.
EASY

Helen Goh’s chocolate, rye and espresso cookies

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh
Chocolate and almond pasticcini
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s chocolate and almond pasticcini

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Adam Liaw’s banana biscuits.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s banana biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Puerto Rican besitos de coco evoke the flavours of coconut macaroons.

Emelia Jackson’s Puerto Rican Besitos de Coco (coconut kisses)

  • Emelia Jackson
Adam Liaw's salted white chocolate cookies.
EASY

Adam Liaw's salted white chocolate cookies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Thin and crispy choc-chip bikkies.
EASY

Thin, crisp choc-chip biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard