An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

A cake or biscuit that is served as a dessert food with or without savory fillings. Strawberry shortcake is one of the most common desserts using this type of biscuit that is cut in half and filled with whipped cream and strawberries. Shortcake can have a sweet or bland flavor, depending on the ingredients added to the dough. For the dessert cake, berries and pieces of fruit are often added between the two halfs of the cake biscuit.

very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream