Chocolate biscuit#Chocolate digestives

{{Short description|Biscuit flavoured with or covered in chocolate}}

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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.

Chocolate biscuits are quite popular in places all over the world, particularly the United Kingdom. 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.{{citation |page=79 |title=Biscuit Manufacture: fundamentals of in-line production |author=P. R. Whitely |publisher=Springer Science & Business |year=2012 |isbn=9781461520375}} If there is a coating, this must contain cocoa butter as the fat to be described as chocolate, rather than just "chocolate-flavoured".{{citation |page=[https://archive.org/details/secondaryprocess0000manl/page/22 22] |title=Biscuit, Cookie and Cracker Manufacturing Manuals |volume=5. Secondary Processing in Biscuit Manufacturing |author=Duncan Manley |publisher=Elsevier |year=1998 |isbn=9781855736245 |url=https://archive.org/details/secondaryprocess0000manl/page/22 }}

In 1891, the Cadbury brothers filed a patent for a chocolate-coated biscuit.{{cite news |title=History Cook: the rise of the chocolate biscuit |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5f890020-bba6-11e8-8274-55b72926558f |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=Financial Times}}