Biscuit / Cookie
Chocolate Biscuit in gelato
Chocolate Biscuit is a baked, cocoa-flavored wheat biscuit (cookie) used ground into a paste or powder, or folded in as a crunchy inclusion, to give gelato a toasted, chocolate-cookie character. It is a near water-free solid that contributes sugar, fat, starch and cocoa flavor.
Balancing parameters
Per 100 g of product, verified against independent food-science sources (listed below).
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Total Solids | 97% |
| Water | 3% |
| Sugars | 36% |
| Fat | 23% |
| MSNF | 0% |
| Protein | 5.5% |
| POD (sweetening power) | 36 |
| PAC (anti-freezing power) | 36 |
Typical use: 4-10% as a ground biscuit paste or flavor base; 10-15% as folded crunchy inclusions (added after the mix is balanced).
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Use Chocolate Biscuit as a flavor-and-solids base for cookie or biscuit gelato, or as a crunchy variegate. Because its sugars are essentially sucrose, its POD and PAC track its sugar mass (about 36 per 100g of product), so it lowers the freezing point only in proportion to the sugar it carries, and only modestly at typical low dosages. Its high starch and fat load raises total solids and adds body and creaminess, so trim other stabilizing solids and fats to compensate. Its water content is negligible, making it a strong solids booster that does almost nothing to hydrate the mix. Count ground paste in the balanced mix; treat crunchy inclusions as added after balancing.
Origin & background
The word biscuit comes from the Latin bis coctus, twice-cooked, describing the long dry baking that once let biscuits survive long voyages and campaigns. The sweet chocolate biscuit is a modern industrial food: McVitie's launched its chocolate-covered digestive in 1925, and the cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie (Oreo, introduced in 1912) popularized the crushed-cookie flavor now common in frozen desserts.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- USDA FoodData Central - Cookies, chocolate sandwich, with creme filling, regular (per 100g: water 1.9g, total sugars 40.4g, fat 19.3g, protein 3.5g, carbohydrate 71.9g): https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-search/
- USDA-derived branded data, Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies: https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/2679450/wt1
- CheckYourFood (UK, McCance-based) - Chocolate digestives (fat ~24g, sugars ~28-30g, protein ~6.5g per 100g): https://www.checkyourfood.com/ingredients/ingredient/1303/chocolate-digestives
- Generic chocolate biscuit composition (carbs ~64g, sugars ~39g, fat ~27g, protein ~6g per 100g): https://www.eatthismuch.com/food/view/chocolate-biscuit,119076/