Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g
Nothing here needs explaining, which on a shelf full of variants is worth something. No filling, no flavour name, no seasonal coat: a plain stick of biscuit under Dairy Milk, and that is the entire specification. A packet this size is two people and a pot of tea rather than a tin to keep, so buy it for the afternoon you intend to eat it in. Keep it cool and keep it closed, because a small pack loses its snap long before it loses its flavour. Milk chocolate on a wheat spine, so neither vegan nor suitable for a coeliac.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, in brief.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers is the original of the three Fingers we list, a thin plain biscuit stick enclosed completely in Cadbury Dairy Milk, 114g in the pack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the plate biscuit for a mixed room.
The balance is the opposite of a digestive: the chocolate is the product and the biscuit is the delivery mechanism. Because the coating encloses the stick rather than sitting on one face, the milk chocolate leads from the first bite and there is no exposed crumb for tea to get into, so it does not dunk. Serve it cool, because the snap is most of the pleasure.
That is not a criticism, it is a design decision, and it explains every practical difference. Because the coating encloses the stick rather than sitting on one face, the milk chocolate arrives first and stays in charge the whole way through, and there is no exposed crumb for tea to get into. It does not dunk. What it does instead is snap cleanly, share well, stand up in a cake, and taste like a bar of Dairy Milk with a biscuit running through the middle of it.
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. Serving temperature and storage are also covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Cadbury
Cadbury is a British confectionery house and Dairy Milk is its best known chocolate, which is the point of this product rather than a footnote to it. A Finger is not a biscuit that happens to be coated, it is a way of eating Dairy Milk in a shape that shares out on a plate and stands up in a cake. Everything about the format follows from that: the stick is thin so the ratio favours chocolate, and it is enclosed so the chocolate is what your tongue meets first.
Cadbury is a long-established British brand, which is company heritage rather than a claim about where this particular pack was made.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: one hundred and fourteen grams.
- Fully enclosed: coated on every side. That is why it does not dunk and why it marks fingers in a warm room.
- Contains gluten and dairy: the stick is a wheat product and the coating is milk chocolate, so this is not a vegan or dairy-free product. For everything else, read the current UK pack.
The Plate Serve
- Serve them cool: the snap is most of the pleasure and a warm finger has no snap at all. Fifteen minutes in a cold room, or ten in the fridge in summer, transforms them.
- Lay them flat, not upright: standing them in a glass looks tidy and leaves every finger held by warm hands before it is eaten.
- Serve what you will eat: put out half the pack and reseal the rest. The exposed coating dulls and picks up kitchen smells surprisingly quickly.
- Something sharp alongside: raspberries, sharp apple or plain yoghurt. Unopposed sweetness gets tiring by the fourth one and acidity fixes it.
The Things It Does That Other Biscuits Cannot
- It stands up: the reason a Finger ends up as a fence around a birthday cake. Nothing else on our shelf holds a vertical line.
- It is a dipper: enclosed chocolate means you can dip it in cream, fruit purée or melted chocolate without the biscuit disintegrating.
- It crushes into a topping: crumbled over ice cream it gives sweet rubble and chocolate flecks in one go.
- It does not dunk: enclosed on every side, so hot tea simply melts the outside. This is the one thing it is worse at than almost any biscuit here, and it is worth knowing before you buy.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: a strong unsweetened black tea is the best partner, because it has the tannin to cut a very sweet coating. Espresso works for adults.
- Avoid: sweetened drinks, hot chocolate and milky sweet coffees, which stack sugar on sugar with nothing underneath to balance it.
- Dunking: no. There is no exposed crumb to take the tea and the coating simply melts.
- Storage: cool, dry, dark and sealed, and away from anything strong smelling. Exposed chocolate takes on kitchen odours.
- Best with: a shared plate, a children's party, a cake to decorate, and a bowl of ice cream that needs rubble on top.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Cadbury
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g is a plate biscuit and a building material rather than a cup biscuit, because a thin enclosed stick stands up, dips without disintegrating and crushes into rubble. Six builds below cover the afternoon plate, a birthday cake fence, fondue dippers, fruit skewers, a sundae topping and how to keep the snap.
Made with this tea
The Afternoon Plate
How to make The Afternoon Plate with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- Half a pack of Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers
- A pot of strong unsweetened black tea
- A handful of raspberries
- Ten minutes in a cold place
- Chill the pack for ten to fifteen minutes first. A warm finger has no snap and the snap is most of the pleasure.
- Brew the tea strong and leave the sugar bowl in the cupboard. Tannin is what cuts an unopposed sweet coating.
- Lay the fingers flat on a cold plate rather than standing them in a glass, where every one gets held by a warm hand before it is eaten.
- Put out only what will be eaten and reseal the rest. Add the raspberries for the acidity that stops the fourth one tasting like the third.
What you'll end up with: A clean snap, chocolate that releases in order rather than all at once, and a plate that does not get sickly halfway through.
The Birthday Cake Fence
How to make The Birthday Cake Fence with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- 2 packs Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers
- 1 iced round cake
- Soft buttercream around the sides
- A wide ribbon
- Ice the sides of the cake and work quickly while the buttercream is still soft, because that is the glue.
- Press the fingers upright around the edge, flat side inward, working all the way round and keeping them touching.
- Tie the ribbon around the outside to hold the fence and hide any gaps.
- Chill the finished cake for half an hour so the buttercream sets around the base of each finger.
Fondue Dippers
How to make Fondue Dippers with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- 1 pack Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers
- 150g dark chocolate
- 100ml double cream
- Strawberries and banana to dip alongside
- Warm the cream, take it off the heat and stir in the dark chocolate until smooth. Dark rather than milk, or the whole thing is one note.
- Keep the fingers in the fridge until the moment you serve them, so they stay rigid.
- Dip and eat straight away. An enclosed coating means the biscuit does not soften on contact the way an open crumb would.
- Put out fruit as well, because the sharpness is what keeps the bowl interesting.
What you'll end up with: A dipper that survives being dipped, which is more than a digestive or a Hobnob manages in anything wet.
Chocolate Finger and Strawberry Skewers
How to make Chocolate Finger and Strawberry Skewers with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- 8 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers, halved
- 16 strawberries
- Thick Greek yoghurt to serve
- 8 wooden skewers
- Thread strawberry, half a finger, strawberry onto each skewer, handling the biscuit as little as possible.
- Chill on a tray for twenty minutes before serving.
- Serve with a bowl of plain yoghurt to dip, not a sweetened one.
- Assemble at the last moment if the room is warm, because a soft finger will not stay on a skewer.
What you'll end up with: A children's party plate with fruit doing the work, and a rare case where a chocolate biscuit holds its shape on a stick.
Crushed Finger Sundae Topping
How to make Crushed Finger Sundae Topping with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- 6 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers
- Vanilla or coffee ice cream
- A pinch of flaky salt
- A shot of hot espresso, optional
- Bash the fingers in a bag to a coarse rubble. The enclosed coating means you get sweet crumb and chocolate flecks together.
- Scoop the ice cream and scatter the rubble over it while it is still cold.
- Add the pinch of salt, which does more for this than any sauce would.
- Pour a shot of hot espresso over the top if it is for adults.
What you'll end up with: Sweet rubble and chocolate flecks in one step, and the salt or coffee stopping it from being sugar on sugar.
Keeping the Snap
How to make Keeping the Snap with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.
- The open pack
- An airtight tin or a clip-lock box
- A cold shelf, not the fridge door
- Reseal or decant on the day you open it. Exposed chocolate dulls and picks up kitchen smells faster than any crumb goes soft.
- Keep them away from onions, spices and coffee, which are the three things chocolate absorbs fastest.
- Chill before serving rather than storing permanently in the fridge, and never on the door where the temperature swings.
- Do not leave the pack open on a warm table during a party. Put out half and refill.
What you'll end up with: A clean audible snap every time, which is the whole point of the format and the first thing a warm room takes away.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 516 kcal |
| Fat | 27g |
| of which saturates | 15g |
| Carbohydrate | 60g |
| of which sugars | 29g |
| Fibre | 1.5g |
| Protein | 7.3g |
| Salt | 0.4g |
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, sal and shea in varying proportions), cocoa butter, cocoa mass, partially inverted sugar syrup, emulsifiers (e442, soya lecithin, e476), salt, raising agents (ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate), flavourings. May contain nuts.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|
Pack: Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g; plain biscuit sticks fully enclosed in milk chocolate. Store cool, dry, dark and sealed, away from anything strong smelling, because exposed chocolate takes on kitchen odours. Read the net weight, the finger count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. Milk chocolate and wheat are stated because the product name and format state them; nothing else is inferred.
Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g is made by Cadbury, a British confectionery house whose best known chocolate is Dairy Milk. That matters to the product rather than being a footnote to it: a Finger is a way of eating Dairy Milk in a shape that shares out on a plate and stands up in a cake, not a biscuit that happens to be coated. The stick is thin so the ratio favours chocolate, and it is enclosed so the chocolate is what the tongue meets first.
What's in Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g, and what isn't:
- In: plain biscuit sticks fully enclosed in Cadbury Dairy Milk milk chocolate, in a 114g sharing pack.
- Not vegan and not dairy-free: the coating is milk chocolate and the product name says so.
- Contains gluten: the stick is a wheat product and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
- No health claim: this is a chocolate confection in biscuit form. We claim no benefit of any kind for it and the sweetness is high.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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