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    "title": "Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g",
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    "excerpt": "Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers is the thin biscuit finger enrobed in milk chocolate on every side, in the larger 189g tray. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the chocolate-led end of the biscuit shelf, for a plate rather than a dunk.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Full enrobing means far more chocolate per gram of biscuit than a coated digestive carries, and the plain thin biscuit inside is deliberately quiet. There is nothing in it to balance the sugar, so brew the tea strong and leave the fingers out of the mug.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage notes and pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers is the thin biscuit finger enrobed in milk chocolate on every side, in the larger 189g tray. The tray matters more than it sounds: it holds the fingers upright and separate, which is the only practical way to stop a fully coated biscuit marking itself in transit.\nFull enrobing is what makes this a different animal from a chocolate digestive. A digestive has a coating on one face and biscuit everywhere else, so the biscuit leads and the chocolate supports. A finger is coated on all sides, so the ratio is inverted: there is far more chocolate per gram of biscuit, and the biscuit inside is deliberately plain and thin so that it gives structure without taking attention. That is why fingers read as chocolate with a crunch in them rather than as a biscuit with chocolate on it, and why they disappear off a plate faster than almost anything else. The Taste Profile\n\nMilk chocolate: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The lead by a distance, because full enrobing means there is much more of it per gram than on a coated biscuit. Sweet, creamy and melting close to body temperature.\nBiscuit finger: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Plain, thin and crisp, and intentionally quiet. It is there for structure and snap rather than for flavour, which is the whole design of the format.\nSnap: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) A clean break in the hand, then an immediate give. The chocolate shell is doing as much of the structural work as the biscuit is.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) High, and with no salt or cocoa bitterness underneath to push back. This is confectionery rather than a tea biscuit and the cup has to do the balancing.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack\nCadbury is a Bournville name and the Dairy Milk block is what it is known for, so a biscuit that exists mainly to carry that chocolate is an honest piece of product design rather than a stretch. The finger shape is not arbitrary either. A long thin biscuit gives the greatest surface area for its weight, so full enrobing puts the maximum amount of chocolate on the minimum amount of biscuit, and the shape is also the easiest to pick up one at a time from a tray.\nEverything else about the format follows from the coating. Fully enrobed biscuits mark each other easily, so they need a tray to keep them separate and upright. They suffer in warmth faster than a one-face coating does, because there is chocolate on every surface to soften. And they do not dunk, because the shell is what holds the biscuit and hot liquid takes the shell off first. The full ingredient declaration, the nutrition panel and the allergen statement are printed on the current UK pack.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet\n\nThe pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market.\nA tray adds packaging that a wrapped pack does not need. With a fully enrobed biscuit it is doing real work rather than decorative work, because without it the fingers arrive marked and stuck together.\nThe outer carton and the inner tray take different recycling routes, and those routes differ by council. Read the current UK pack and check locally.\n\n How Does Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g Compare to:\n\nCadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g: the same format under a white coating, which carries no cocoa solids and therefore reads sweeter still. Buy it only if sweetness is the point.\n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nA fully enrobed finger is mostly chocolate, with no salt or cocoa bitterness in the biscuit to push back against the sugar. That puts the entire balancing job on the cup, and it means the brew needs to be stronger here than it would be alongside a digestive. Strong, black, unsweetened, and it will carry three fingers comfortably. The Strong Mug\n\nBrew: A standard black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil, four minutes. Take it strong; there is nothing in the biscuit doing any of this work.\nMilk: A splash to soften a long brew, no more. The finger is already creamy.\nSugar: None. With a fully coated biscuit there is no headroom left at all.\nDo not dunk: The chocolate shell is holding the biscuit together and hot liquid takes the shell first. Fingers belong on the plate.\n The Plate For Sharing\n\nServe: Four or five fingers stood up in the tray rather than tipped onto a plate, which is how they stay unmarked.\nPot: A pot of everyday black tea, four minutes, poured strong for a shared table.\nWhy they vanish: They are quick to eat, need no dunking, leave no crumbs and require no decision. That is the honest reason a tray empties faster than a pack of digestives.\nKeep cool: A tray left near a kettle or in the sun will have the fingers sticking together within the hour.\n Serving Notes For Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g\n\nWater temperature: Full boil.\nMeasure: One bag per 200ml, three or four fingers a person. \nSteep: Four minutes, strong. There is no salt or bitterness in the biscuit to help you.\nService: A splash of milk, no sugar.\nDunk: No. The shell holds the biscuit and hot liquid takes the shell first.\nIced version: Cold milk is the traditional partner here and it is the right one; an unsweetened iced black tea also works.\nBest with: Strong black tea with a splash of milk, plain black coffee, or cold milk.\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nPiece count: judge the tray on its 189g.\nStorage: Cool and dark, in the tray, and away from the kettle. A fully enrobed biscuit has chocolate on every surface, so it suffers in warmth faster than a one-face coating does.\nChild safety: Keep the kettle and the hot mug out of reach of children while you brew.",
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                "content": "How are fingers different from a chocolate digestive?A digestive is coated on one face and the biscuit leads. A finger is enrobed on every side, so there is far more chocolate per gram and the plain thin biscuit inside is deliberately quiet. Fingers read as chocolate with a crunch rather than as a biscuit with chocolate on it. Can I dunk them?No. The chocolate shell is doing as much structural work as the biscuit, and hot liquid takes the shell off first. Fingers belong on the plate. What tea should I drink with them?Something strong and unsweetened, four minutes rather than three. There is no salt or cocoa bitterness in the biscuit to balance the sugar, so the entire job falls on the cup. How many fingers are in the 189g tray?Judge the tray on its 189g. Why does the tray matter?Because fully enrobed biscuits mark each other. The tray holds them upright and separate, which is the only practical way to get a coated finger from a factory to a plate looking like itself. Why do they stick together sometimes?Warmth. There is chocolate on every surface of a finger, so it softens faster than a biscuit coated on one side. Keep the tray cool and dark and away from the kettle. What about the white chocolate version?Same format, sweeter result. White chocolate carries no cocoa solids, so there is nothing bitter in it at all, which on a fully enrobed biscuit with a plain centre is a lot of sweetness with nothing against it. Can I use them as a decoration?They are one of the few biscuits that work stood upright around the side of a cake, because the shape is regular and the coating is even. Press them into buttercream while it is still soft."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: milk, wheat flour (with calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), sugar, vegetable fats (palm, shea, sal in varying proportions), cocoa butter, cocoa mass, partially inverted sugar syrup, emulsifiers (e442, soya lecithins, e476), salt, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), flavourings. May contain nuts.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy514 kcalFat25.7gof which saturates14.8gCarbohydrate61.9gof which sugars35.2gFibre2.4gProtein7.6gSalt0.5gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsMilk chocolateevery surfaceFull enrobing rather than a one-face coating, which puts far more chocolate per gram of biscuit than a digestive carries. It melts close to body temperature and it is the lead by a distance.Biscuit fingerthe centrePlain, thin and crisp, and deliberately quiet. It provides structure and snap without taking attention, which is exactly what the format asks of it.Finger shapethe designA long thin biscuit has the greatest surface area for its weight, so enrobing puts the maximum chocolate on the minimum biscuit. It is also the easiest shape to take one at a time.Traythe packHolds the fingers upright and separate. Fully enrobed biscuits mark each other, so this is structural packaging rather than presentation.Pack weight189gThe piece count is not given on the published pack listing and we state none.Pack: Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g; a carton holding a tray of fully enrobed milk chocolate biscuit fingers. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best kept cool, dark and in the tray.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g carries the Cadbury name, a Bournville house best known for its milk chocolate block, so a biscuit whose main job is to carry that chocolate is honest product design rather than a stretch. The format is doing the work: a long thin biscuit has the greatest surface area for its weight, so enrobing every side puts the maximum chocolate on the minimum biscuit, and the plain centre is quiet on purpose. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The account of fully enrobed biscuits marking each other, needing a tray and suffering in warmth faster than a one-face coating is general format behaviour, and the flavour reading is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.What is in Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g, and what is not:In: thin biscuit fingers fully enrobed in milk chocolate, held upright in a tray, 189g to the pack.Not a tea biscuit: there is no salt or cocoa bitterness in the centre to balance the sugar, so the cup has to do all of it. Brew stronger than you would for a digestive.Not a dunker: the shell holds the biscuit together and hot liquid takes the shell first. These belong on the plate."
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                "content": "The flavour of Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Biscuits Tray, 189g is built in three layers, and unusually the outer one accounts for nearly all of it.The outer layer is the chocolate, and with full enrobing there is a great deal of it relative to the biscuit inside. It melts at close to body temperature, so the mouth fills with creaminess almost immediately and the sweetness arrives with it. On a biscuit coated on one face this layer is a topping; here it is the substance, and everything else is arranged around it.The flavour spike is the snap, which is a texture event rather than a flavour one. The shell breaks first and the thin biscuit gives immediately behind it, so the two happen almost together and the bite reads as a single clean collapse. That is the pleasure of the format and it is why fingers are eaten quickly and in quantity rather than slowly and singly.The base structure is the biscuit itself, and it is quiet on purpose. Plain and thin, it contributes crumb and structure rather than taste, with none of the salt or toasted wheatmeal character that a digestive brings. The finish is therefore short and sweet with nothing savoury underneath it, which is precisely why the cup beside it has to be stronger than it would be with a coated digestive.Getting it right in the cup. Three or four fingers a person with a strong black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil for four minutes, a splash of milk and no sugar. Brew this one longer than you would for a digestive: there is nothing in the biscuit doing any of the balancing, so all of it falls on the tannin in the cup. Do not dunk them, because the chocolate shell is holding the biscuit and hot liquid takes the shell first. Keep the tray cool, dark and away from the kettle; chocolate on every surface softens faster than chocolate on one.How water and temperature change it. The cup carries an unusually large share of the work with this biscuit, so brew strength matters more than usual. A four-minute brew at a full boil pulls enough tannin to clear a heavily coated biscuit between fingers; a three-minute cup leaves a chocolate film that the next finger simply adds to, and after four of them the palate stops registering anything. Hard tap water flattens black tea and blunts precisely that clearing effect, so add a minute in a hard water area. Cold milk is the other traditional answer and it works differently rather than worse: it does not cut the chocolate, it dilutes it, which children work out long before anybody explains it to them."
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                "content": "Fingers are the wrong shape for dunking and the right shape for building, so these ideas put them on a plate, around a cake and through a dessert rather than in a mug. Five builds below.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Strong Mug And Four\n \n How to serve Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers with tea that can carry them.\n \n 6 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You will need\n \n 4 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n 1 bag black tea\n 200ml water at a full boil\n A splash of milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew one bag in 200ml at a full boil for four minutes rather than three; a heavily coated biscuit needs more tannin against it.\n Add a splash of milk and no sugar.\n Eat the fingers from the tray rather than a plate, which keeps the rest unmarked.\n Take a mouthful of tea between fingers rather than at the end.\n \n \n \n What you will end up with: A fourth finger that still tastes of chocolate rather than of a chocolate film left by the third.\n\n \n Fingers Round A Cake\n \n How to use Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers to decorate a cake.\n \n 15 min\n 1 cake\n Easy\n \n \n \n You will need\n \n About 25 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n One 18cm iced cake\n A ribbon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Ice the cake and work while the buttercream is still soft.\n Press the fingers upright around the side, standing them shoulder to shoulder.\n Tie a ribbon around the middle to hold them while the icing sets.\n Chill for twenty minutes before moving the cake.\n \n \n \n What you will end up with: The most reliable cake decoration in Britain, and one that needs no piping skill at all.\n\n \n Chocolate Finger Ice Cream Sundae\n \n How to build a sundae with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 6 min\n 2 glasses\n Easy\n \n \n \n You will need\n \n 6 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n 4 scoops vanilla ice cream\n A pinch of flaky salt\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Scoop vanilla ice cream into two tall glasses.\n Stand three fingers in each glass rather than crushing them.\n Scatter a pinch of flaky salt, which is the only thing stopping this reading as pure sugar.\n Serve at once, while the fingers still snap.\n \n \n \n What you will end up with: A sundae with structure in it, and the salt doing the job the biscuit centre deliberately does not.\n\n \n Fridge Cake With Digestive\n \n How to make a fridge cake with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 20 min + chill\n 12 pieces\n Easy\n \n \n \n You will need\n \n 10 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers, broken\n 200g plain digestive biscuits\n 100g butter\n 2 tablespoons golden syrup\n 150g dark chocolate\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Break the fingers into short lengths and crush the digestives coarsely; the digestive brings the salt this slab needs.\n Melt 100g of butter with 2 tablespoons of golden syrup and fold everything through.\n Press into a lined tin and pour over 150g of melted dark chocolate.\n Chill three hours and cut small.\n \n \n \n What you will end up with: Dark chocolate and salted digestive holding a very sweet biscuit in check, which is the whole trick with fingers.\n\n \n Cold Milk And A Tray\n \n How to serve Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers to children.\n \n 3 min\n 4 people\n Easy\n \n \n \n You will need\n \n 16 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n 4 small glasses of cold milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Put the tray on the table rather than a plate; the fingers stay upright and unmarked.\n Pour small glasses of cold milk, which dilutes the chocolate rather than cutting it.\n Skip the dunking; the shell goes first and the finger follows it into the glass.\n Close the carton and put it somewhere cool afterwards.\n \n \n \n What you will end up with: Four portions with no crumbs and no marked biscuits, which is exactly what the tray is for."
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