# The best British biscuits

Britain's favourite biscuits according to three polls: YouGov Ratings (2018), the YouGov survey for Camerados (2022) and McVitie's Great British Biscuit Audit (2025), plus the other tea-time classics on Wikipedia's list.

- 757 votes · 15 items
- Jul 10, 2025 · knitter.slow
- https://even.best/en/l/1612/the-best-british-biscuits

## Top 14

1. **Chocolate digestive** (89 · ▲100 ▼11) — Top of McVitie's 2025 audit (36%) and YouGov's most liked biscuit, with 82% favourable.
2. **Hobnob** (80 · ▲84 ▼4) — Oaty McVitie's biscuit, the UK's favourite in the 2022 YouGov poll (18%).
3. **Digestive** (60 · ▲63 ▼3) — The plain wholemeal classic, just 1% behind the Hobnob in 2022.
4. **Custard cream** (56 · ▲60 ▼4) — Vanilla-cream sandwich, joint third in 2022 and a podium finisher in 2025.
5. **Bourbon** (39 · ▲46 ▼7) — Chocolate sandwich biscuit, joint third in 2022 and the students' favourite.
6. **Shortbread** (35 · ▲41 ▼6) — Scottish butter biscuit, runner-up in McVitie's 2025 audit.
7. **Viennese whirl** (34 · ▲36 ▼2) — Piped butter biscuits with buttercream and jam.
8. **Cadbury Fingers** (33 · ▲40 ▼7) — Chocolate-covered biscuit fingers, viewed favourably by 77%.
9. **Ginger nut** (31 · ▲38 ▼7) — Hard, spicy ginger biscuit, fifth in 2022 for dunking.
10. **Jaffa Cake** (29 · ▲34 ▼5) — Sponge, orange jelly and chocolate; legally a cake since 1991, but 73% love it.
11. **Jammie Dodger** (25 · ▲32 ▼7) — Shortbread sandwich with a heart of jam.
12. **Rich Tea** (24 · ▲29 ▼5) — Plain, light biscuit made for dunking in tea.
13. **Garibaldi** (20 · ▲27 ▼7) — 'Squashed fly' biscuit with currants.
14. **Fig roll** (19 · ▲23 ▼4) — Soft pastry filled with fig paste.
15. **Malted Milk** (11 · ▲18 ▼7) — Plain malted biscuit stamped with a cow, a British teatime classic since 1924.

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