20 easy biscuit recipes for your next isolation bake (2024)

Using only your store cupboard essentials - butter, sugar, flour, an egg and a couple of extras - you can make these creamy, smooth butter cookies. Yum.

A chocolate condensed milk cookie is 100% going into our recipe book.

"Oaty, chocolatey and perfect dunked in tea" is the description for these homemade hobnobs, and we've literally never heard anything better.

Ready in 20 minutes with a soft and chewy texture sounds like the 3pm dream, tbh.

All you need is bananas, sea salt and cocoa powder to make these fudgy cookies, which promise to be easy and delicious. Count us in.

While this recipe isn't short of ingredients, the majority of them are probably already in your cupboard - or easy to get hold of. It has the fudgy texture of a brownie and the chewiness of a biscuit. Yum

Ok, so this recipe takes 10 ingredients so not exactly simple-simple, but they look incredible. A cookie bar could be our new favourite thing.

Yep, three ingredients! This easy biscuit recipe promises to be crumbly and yummy, and is made from sugar, butter and flour. Really easy if you can get your hands on the flour, that is!

Anything with peanut butter in is a big YES in our books, especially these simple biscuits. Swap in almond butter for an alternative, or crunchy pb for more of a bite.

Homemade easy sugar cookies are a great self isolation choice, because you can ice and decorate them for hours afterwards. Anyone got plans for Sunday?

Like a flapjack but in a cookie. This recipe is super simple - butter, golden syrup, oats, brown sugar, flour and bicarbonate of soda make gooey, chewy biscuits for your afternoon snack. Yum.

Combine an egg, flour, sugar, butter and chocolate chips for these delicious cookies, perfect straight out of the oven.

On the off chance you're unable to get jammy dodgers in the supermarket, why not make your own? Combine shortbread cookies (maybe the three ingredient recipe?) with jam and icing sugar for a yummy treat.

This recipe promises to taste just like Walkers shortbread, which gets a big yes from us.

All you need is four ingredients for this easy biscuit recipe: condensed milk, self-raising flour, caster sugar and butter. And then top with whatever you choose! Sprinkles, chocolate... whatever you've got to hand.

Nigella Lawson's simple chocolate biscuits promise to be melt-in-the-mouth, and only combine four ingredients - butter, sugar, flour and cocoa powder. Yum. Add nuts, chocolate chips or even peanut butter for a twist on the original recipe.

These are quick and easy and will be made in under half an hour. Look at the oozy chocolate goodness on top!

If you're missing your normal ginger nuts, why not try a homemade version with these chewy ginger spice cookies? The texture in the middle is caramelised and chewy, while the outside promises to be crunchy and offer a snap.

Chocolate? For breakfast? We've never heard of anything more up our street. These flourless and eggless easy biscuits combine oats with peanut butter and chocolate. We haven't even eaten them and we're fans.

OK OK, so technically this is a cookie recipe, but if you make them a little smaller and cook them for a minute longer, they become crunchie biscuits. Yum.