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These simple fork biscuits are a favourite of Mary Berry's. Follow her simple recipe and enjoy your fork biscuits with a hot cup of tea.

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Introduction

These biscuits first made their appearance in an old red Cordon Bleu cookery book, and I’ve been making them for years.

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Ingredients

100g (4oz) butter, softened
50g (2oz) caster sugar
150g (5oz) self-raising flour

Essential kit

You will need two baking trays.

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C /fan 160°C/ gas 4.

Lightly butter two baking trays.

Measure the butter into a bowl and beat to soften. Gradually beat in the sugar and then the flour. Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a dough.

Form the dough into 16 balls about the size of a walnut and place spaced well apart on the prepared baking trays.

Dip a fork in a little water and use this to flatten the biscuits.

Bake in the preheated oven for 15–20 minutes until a very pale golden.

Lift off the baking tray and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

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Reviews

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61 Ratings

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62 Comments

    default user avatar Merlinda

    Amazing very easy and quick.

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    default user avatar T.H.D

    Great recipe. Added chocolate chips. Tasted great🍪😋🍪

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    default user avatar Tori

    Kids love these biscuits, we also added a little vanilla extract and they were beautiful

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    default user avatar Samina

    It is the best I would have it again👍🏻😛🤩😋

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    default user avatar Ayesha

    Sooo delicious 😋 love this recipe
    It is something that I will definitely make again 🤩😛😋👍🏻👍🏻

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    default user avatar Aminah

    These are really quick and delicious to make we will definitely make them again 😋😋😛🤩

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    default user avatar Dorota

    Easy, quick and delicious.

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    default user avatar Carole Dent

    Nice and easy to make, my grandson enjoyed making them.

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    default user avatar Jan

    Made these biscuits many times love them

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    default user avatar Najmun

    Love this – I added almonds and it made the biscuits look so expensive 🙂 I am not a natural baker and this was very easy to follow.

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    default user avatar Linda Hamilton

    So easy and quick. I added vanilla extract. Melt in the mouth yummy.

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    default user avatar Brendan

    Superb. Lovely flavor, easy recipe. Crumbly texture.

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    default user avatar Josephine Ramphele

    It is very tasty and delightful
    My family liked it

    It was amazing it had enough sugar. love it

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    default user avatar Melanie Richardson

    Could you add a little almond extract to this recipe

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    default user avatar The Happy Foodie Team

    Hi Melanie,

    Thank you for your comment. Yes, absolutely – some almond extract here would work really well.

    Happy Cooking!
    The Happy Foodie Team

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    default user avatar Pedro

    Simple and delicious

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    default user avatar Brenda

    I make these for my work colleagues. They are very quick to mix and only 20 minutes to bake. Make a batch for your grandkids they will love them.

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    default user avatar Annabelle Heath

    Lovely

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    default user avatar Joe

    Awesome, quick, cheap and great to do with the kids!!!

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    default user avatar No name

    A bit dry ad maple syrup

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    default user avatar Alexis

    Tried this yesterday. Baked the biscuits a bit longer for 25 mins and they are delicious and were very easy and quick to bake. My dad likes them too! 🙂

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    default user avatar George W

    Sooooo easy yummy and doesn’t take many ingredients at all. It has to be my favourite biscuits.

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    default user avatar Robyn

    It was easy to follow
    It was quick
    And it tasted delicious 😋

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    default user avatar Anne h

    Nice recipe put cinnamon in some of minec

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    default user avatar Geri

    Fabulous and so easy, can be made with added fruit or nuts or both, lovely recipe

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    default user avatar Emma

    This recipe is lovely I put orange zest in mine it’s so quick and tasty I have used this many times.

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    default user avatar Issabella

    I LOVE THIS RRCIPE. I ALWAYS MAKE IT AT FUNCTIONS AND THE PEOPLE LOVE IT! Thank you !

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    default user avatar Janine Bonner

    A lovely quick biscuit recipe. A definite go to for recipe. Will try a few variations with flavour or decoration.
    Added maple syrup in the ones I made today.
    Only downside is the mixture is a little dry so that’s why I added maple syrup.

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    default user avatar Sarah-Faye Clarke

    Easy. Yummy.Add chocolate to half and Sultanas to other half. Children and elderly relies love 🧡

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    default user avatar Susan Southwest

    I’ve made these fork biscuits 4 times now. Very easy and tasty. I baked them at 180 in a recently, professionally cleaned oven (so presume the temperature is accurate) for 17 minutes. They were browner than the photo (but not burnt). I think I’ll bake for 16 minutes next time and check the colour. Follow the recipe exactly and you can’t go wrong. I was dubious about using a fork; I think this makes them crispier.

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    default user avatar Caroline Tebbutt

    Perfect for last minute visitors

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    default user avatar Kimi

    These fork biscuits are always an easy and delicious recipe when you want to bake something

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    default user avatar Angela Cave

    Made these biscuits Sunday morning they are so easy and delicious 😋😋

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    default user avatar Shell

    Quick and easy with just a few ingredients. The amount of butter means the biscuits are deliciously short. Roll lightly into balls, don’t overwork, this seems to prevent cracking.

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    default user avatar Daren

    Easiest and tastiest biscuits I have found. We make them way too often.

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    default user avatar Patricia

    Lovely quick receipe and scrumptious bikkies!

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    default user avatar Disne G

    So easy and very delicious

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    default user avatar maxine ilabaca

    Too tasty to leave on the wire rack….i guarantee you’ll eat the lot 😋

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    default user avatar Claire

    Fantastic, so easy and delicious. I dipped the edge in melted chocolate and had so many compliments

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    default user avatar Jamal

    It was a load of rubbish make this if you want to throw it in the trash

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    default user avatar Tom Catt

    Made these a while ago. Now experimenting with adding coffee 😁

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    default user avatar VJB

    Simple and yummy

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    default user avatar Lorna Gourlay

    Brilliant and so versatile. Make it a lot, different ways, as my friend is allergic to eggs.

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    default user avatar Jas

    It was really nice but when I was doing the flattening it kept on breaking

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    default user avatar Izzy

    good very nice loved them I recommen

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    default user avatar Dani and Debbie Garside

    These were nice. Plain. We didn’t make them thin enough, I don’t think, as they turned out a bit like a cross between a biscuit and a scone. Not in a bad way. They’re definitely getting eaten, and enjoyed, but I’d advise maybe rolling these due to the self-raising flour.

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    default user avatar SarahN

    marvellous, I add nuts to mine, or lemon rind, or sultanas……..you can add anything really! So quick – almost quicker than popping to supermarket…

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    default user avatar Liz I

    Simple, quick recipe with good results every time. Lovely buttery flavoured biscuits that are a family favourite!

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    default user avatar Grace Sutcliffe

     

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    default user avatar Gerald

    Really great taste! Thanks! 😀

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    default user avatar Marta

    Delicious – reminds me of lockdown baking when you couldn’t get eggs!

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    default user avatar Wallace

    Love them, good traditional biscuit from my childhood

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    default user avatar Maureen McCabe

    I have been making these fork buiscuits for years. They are easy to make and delicious 😋

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    default user avatar Betty

    My husband Gerald always asks for these on his birthday. he says they’re the best cookies he’s ever had

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    default user avatar Debbie

    My grandchildren love them!

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    default user avatar Baz oomer

    Brilliant for making canna cookies.

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