I'll be honest, it makes me assume the taste has been sacrificed in favour of the looks, same as the overly fancy cakes with the excessive fondant. They might actually be delicious but that's where my brain goes.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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Zactly. Tastiest things I've ever eaten have been grey uniform rectangular blobs. Anything else is just bougie
Unless they were clearly labelled, I wouldn't even realise these were edible - they look amazing. I would never seek them out to eat them, but would absolutely try one if offered.
They are very pretty. Someone clearly went through a lot of effort to make them look that nice.
If it brought them joy, great. But it won't give me extra joy to eat ones that look like that.
So, to me, it's about whether the baker thought it was worth their time.
It's all about the artwork. The biscuits are merely the canvas, which is how I'd suspect it would taste. They're literally too pretty to eat. A feast for the eyes!
Indeed, I was at a wedding this weekend with (very high-effort) personalized cookies. No one ate them after the first few were left on plates with one bite taken from them. Sad.
I bet they were lovely décor though. You wouldn't expect to eat your place cards.
Even if they started out as good cookies, the time necessary to do elaborate art on so many, transport, and have them in place at the tables, would ensure they're stale.
Well, in this case, it was the sugar/flour ratio that doomed it. The ratio was 1g sugar/1kg flour. There was no discernible fat used to make them. They were...sawdusty.....
Sounds like they'd be better crumbled up and mixed briskly into some whole milk.
They look like fridge magnets or like the whole image was AI generated. They're too good.
If there's no other biscuits available I'll eat them, however, I find the icing distracts from the utter joy of the biscuit
pretty but not great for dunking
I agree, and this is an important consideration in biscuit eating.
Whimsy and practicality must be balanced.
Eh, it depends. I like to bite through a fondant to the crispy ~~cookie~~ biscuit beneath, but I find that the fondant (or icing) often softens the substrate beneath it within a few hours. In my opinion, those sorts must be eaten the same day they're made. The morning after, at the latest.
I enjoy both stages. The softened substrate version, and the overly hard dried out stage later
Fair enough!