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Chocolate biscuit
Biscuit flavoured with or covered in chocolate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A chocolate biscuit is a biscuit (called "cookie" in the US) which is covered in chocolate, or which has been made by replacing some of the flour with cocoa powder.
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Type | Biscuit |
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Main ingredients | Flour, cocoa powder or chocolate |
Chocolate biscuits are quite popular in places all over the world, particularly the United Kingdom.[1] The composition and recipe may vary considerably and there is often legislation to specify how the biscuit may be described. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit made without an external coating may only be described as "chocolate" if it contains at least 3% of dry cocoa solids.[2] If there is a coating, this must contain cocoa butter as the fat to be described as chocolate, rather than just "chocolate-flavoured".[1]
In 1891, the Cadbury brothers filed a patent for a chocolate-coated biscuit.[3]