Bettys chocolate and orange crisps
320g, £9.95
These come in an attractive round tin and are just what you'd hope for from an orange crisp. Although £9.95 is a bit pricey for biscuits, they are a top quality treat. "Grown up orangey flavour, crispy and wafer thin so you could always find room for one on Christmas day."
M&S salted caramel biscuits
200g, £5.00
These biscuits look great - there's a bit of the Tunnocks teacake about them - but taste-wise they were divisive. Some testers were repelled by the large salt crystals garnishing the top. One of the many who loved the "generously thick layers of crunchy butter biscuit and caramel" thought them the "perfect Christmas treat biscuit with a difference".
Daylesford organic chocolate biscuit tin
340g, £9.99
Nice packaging and a good square reusable tin. Lovely selection of white chocolate lemon rounds, choc chip orange hearts, double chocolate hearts and a favourite with our panel: the snappy ginger rounds half topped with generous organic dark chocolate. "Not too sweet, just the right amount of ginger kick with a nice bit of crystallised stem ginger on top. A lovely biscuit."
Fortnum & Mason Chocolossus biscuits
600g, £15.95
Attractively tall (or long if you lie it down) gold tin that would make a handy spaghetti holder. Or a cannon. Bite through that thick shell and you encounter loads more chunky chocolate. They're a solid biscuit - lovely texture, really rich. You'd never fit one in after Christmas dinner.
Roots & Wings exquisite ginger biscuits
130g, £2.79
The organic gingers biscuits have a good thick dark chocolate coating and bits of stem ginger throughout. On the chewier rather than crunchier side, a very pleasing luxury biscuit at a reasonable price.
Borders deliciously different lemon biscuits
175g, £1.52 (gift tins, £7.99)
More interesting than your average lemon biscuits with a good snappy texture and a buttery, zesty, fresh flavour. And the dark chocolate gingers make a good crunchy alternative to Roots and Wings' equally impressive version.
