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    "excerpt": "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.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.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.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.",
    "content_text": "Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers is the original of the three Fingers we list and the one the other two are variations on. A thin, plain biscuit stick enclosed completely in Cadbury Dairy Milk, one hundred and fourteen grams in the pack, and the balance of the thing is the opposite of a digestive: here the chocolate is the product and the biscuit is the delivery mechanism.\n\nThat 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.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nMilk Chocolate: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The whole event. Enclosed on every side, so it leads from the first bite and never steps back.\nBiscuit Character: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Deliberately quiet. A plain, fine, crisp stick whose job is texture rather than flavour.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) High and largely unopposed, because there is no savoury or toasted note underneath to brake it.\nSnap: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Clean and audible when the pack is cool, and the best part of the eating experience.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind Cadbury\n\nCadbury 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.\n\nCadbury is a long-established British brand, which is company heritage rather than a claim about where this particular pack was made.\n\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n What You Are Actually Buying\n\nWeight: one hundred and fourteen grams.\n\nFully enclosed: coated on every side. That is why it does not dunk and why it marks fingers in a warm room.\nContains 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.\n\n How Does Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g Compare to:\n\nCadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g: the same stick under a white coating at the same weight. White is sweeter still and milkier with no cocoa behind it, which some people love and others find relentless. The milk version is the safer plate for a mixed room.\nCadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g: the same format with a caramel and salt note carried in the coating, which gives it a brake the plain version does not have and a longer finish. Buy the salted caramel for adults with coffee and the plain one for everyone.\nMcVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g: the opposite proposition. A Hobnob has a real biscuit underneath doing flavour work, and it dunks. Buy the Hobnob for the tin and the Fingers for the plate.\n\nThe Plate Serve\n\nServe 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.\nLay them flat, not upright: standing them in a glass looks tidy and leaves every finger held by warm hands before it is eaten.\nServe what you will eat: put out half the pack and reseal the rest. The exposed coating dulls and picks up kitchen smells surprisingly quickly.\nSomething sharp alongside: raspberries, sharp apple or plain yoghurt. Unopposed sweetness gets tiring by the fourth one and acidity fixes it.\n\nThe Things It Does That Other Biscuits Cannot\n\nIt stands up: the reason a Finger ends up as a fence around a birthday cake. Nothing else on our shelf holds a vertical line.\nIt is a dipper: enclosed chocolate means you can dip it in cream, fruit pur\u00e9e or melted chocolate without the biscuit disintegrating.\nIt crushes into a topping: crumbled over ice cream it gives sweet rubble and chocolate flecks in one go.\nIt 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.\n\n Getting It Right with a Hot Drink\n\nPairing: a strong unsweetened black tea is the best partner, because it has the tannin to cut a very sweet coating. Espresso works for adults.\nAvoid: sweetened drinks, hot chocolate and milky sweet coffees, which stack sugar on sugar with nothing underneath to balance it.\nDunking: no. There is no exposed crumb to take the tea and the coating simply melts.\nStorage: cool, dry, dark and sealed, and away from anything strong smelling. Exposed chocolate takes on kitchen odours.\nBest with: a shared plate, a children's party, a cake to decorate, and a bowl of ice cream that needs rubble on top.\n\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\nChoking note: a thin chocolate-covered stick is a shape small children bite through easily and also one they run about holding. Supervise younger children, as you would with any biscuit of this shape.\n\nNo health claim: it is a chocolate confection in biscuit form and the sweetness is high.\n\nChild safety: keep out of reach of small children.",
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                "content": "Can I dunk them?No, and this is the one thing they are genuinely bad at. The stick is enclosed on every side, so there is no exposed crumb for tea to travel into and the hot water simply melts the outside. Buy a Hobnob or a digestive if dunking is what you want. Why do they taste better cold?Because the snap is most of the eating experience and a warm finger has no snap at all. Fifteen minutes in a cold room, or ten in the fridge in summer, makes a bigger difference to this product than to anything else on our biscuit shelf. How is this different from the white and the salted caramel versions?Same stick, same weight, different coating. White is sweeter and milkier with no cocoa behind it. Salted caramel has a brake on the sweetness and a longer finish. The plain Dairy Milk one is the safest plate for a mixed room. How many fingers are in the pack?The pack is 114g and states its own count. Is it really the biscuit for a birthday cake fence?A thin straight stick with a flat side holds a vertical line around a cake where a round biscuit will not. Press them into the buttercream while it is still soft and tie a ribbon round. What should I drink with them?A strong unsweetened black tea, because it has the tannin to cut a very sweet unopposed coating. Espresso for adults. Avoid hot chocolate and sweet milky coffee, which stack sugar on sugar. How long do they keep once open?Reseal the pack or move them to a tin. Exposed chocolate dulls and takes on kitchen smells faster than people expect, and a finger that has sat open next to onions is not a pleasant thing. Keep them cool and away from anything strong. Why is the biscuit so plain?On purpose. The stick is there for texture rather than flavour, so that nothing competes with the coating. That is the whole design, and it is why the biscuit scores two out of five from us and the chocolate scores five. Can I cook with them?They crush into a sweet rubble with chocolate flecks through it, which is excellent over ice cream, and they work as dippers for cream, fruit pur\u00e9e or melted chocolate because the enclosed coating stops the biscuit disintegrating. Both are in the recipe tab."
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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, 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.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy516 kcalFat27gof which saturates15gCarbohydrate60gof which sugars29gFibre1.5gProtein7.3gSalt0.4gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsPack: 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:\nIn: plain biscuit sticks fully enclosed in Cadbury Dairy Milk milk chocolate, in a 114g sharing pack.\n\nNot vegan and not dairy-free: the coating is milk chocolate and the product name says so.\nContains gluten: the stick is a wheat product and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.\nNo 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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                "content": "The flavour of Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the biscuit tastes the way it does from the first bite to the last swallow.The outer layer is the milk chocolate, and the important fact is that it encloses the stick on every side rather than sitting on one face. That changes the whole architecture of the eating. There is no way to turn this biscuit over and taste something different, no exposed crumb to meet the palate first, and no route for liquid to get in. The coating arrives immediately, it is sweet and creamy, and it keeps the lead until the last swallow. Where a digestive or a Hobnob gives you two flavours in sequence, a Finger gives you one flavour with a texture inside it.The flavour spike, such as it is, belongs to the coating as well. The plain biscuit stick is deliberately quiet: fine, pale and low in character, so that nothing competes. What it contributes instead is contrast, a crisp interruption in the middle of something smooth, and the moment the two textures meet is the centre of the experience. This is also why the sweetness reads high and largely unopposed. There is no toasted cereal note and no savoury wheatmeal note underneath to brake it, which is exactly why the salted caramel version of this same stick tastes more balanced, and why a sharp fruit on the side does so much work here.The base structure is the snap. A thin enclosed stick breaks with a clean, audible click when it is cool, and that click is a large part of why people like these. It is also fragile in the literal sense: the same thin geometry that makes the snap makes the finger break in a bag and soften in a warm hand. The finish is short, milky and clears quickly, with nothing lingering behind the sugar.Getting it right in the cup. The honest version of this heading is that this biscuit belongs beside the cup rather than in it. Enclosed on every side, it has no exposed crumb to take tea, so a dunk just melts the outside and leaves chocolate on the surface of your drink. What does work is the pairing. A strong unsweetened black tea has the tannin to cut an unopposed sweet coating, and an espresso does the same job for adults. Hot chocolate, sweetened tea and milky sweet coffee all fail for the same reason, which is that they add sugar to a product that has no brake on its own. If you want something alongside on the plate, choose acidity: raspberries, sharp apple or plain yoghurt will reset the palate between fingers.Served cool, the chocolate is firm, the snap is clean and the flavour releases in order. Served warm, the coating softens, the snap disappears completely, the finger marks every hand that touches it and the whole thing reads as sweeter and duller. Ten minutes in the fridge on a summer afternoon is the single most useful thing you can do to this product. Chocolate that has warmed and re-set carries a pale bloom, which is harmless and permanent and purely cosmetic. Water is less of a problem than usual, because an enclosed coating is an effective moisture barrier and these keep their crispness better than an open crumb does. Smell is the real storage risk: exposed chocolate takes on kitchen odours quickly, so reseal the pack and keep it away from anything strong."
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                "content": "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.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Afternoon Plate\n \n How to make The Afternoon Plate with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 15 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n Half a pack of Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n A pot of strong unsweetened black tea\n A handful of raspberries\n Ten minutes in a cold place\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Chill the pack for ten to fifteen minutes first. A warm finger has no snap and the snap is most of the pleasure.\n Brew the tea strong and leave the sugar bowl in the cupboard. Tannin is what cuts an unopposed sweet coating.\n 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.\n 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.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n The Birthday Cake Fence\n \n How to make The Birthday Cake Fence with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 20 min\n One 20cm cake\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 packs Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n 1 iced round cake\n Soft buttercream around the sides\n A wide ribbon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Ice the sides of the cake and work quickly while the buttercream is still soft, because that is the glue.\n Press the fingers upright around the edge, flat side inward, working all the way round and keeping them touching.\n Tie the ribbon around the outside to hold the fence and hide any gaps.\n Chill the finished cake for half an hour so the buttercream sets around the base of each finger.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n Fondue Dippers\n \n How to make Fondue Dippers with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 10 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 pack Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n 150g dark chocolate\n 100ml double cream\n Strawberries and banana to dip alongside\n \n \n \n Method\n \n 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.\n Keep the fingers in the fridge until the moment you serve them, so they stay rigid.\n Dip and eat straight away. An enclosed coating means the biscuit does not soften on contact the way an open crumb would.\n Put out fruit as well, because the sharpness is what keeps the bowl interesting.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Chocolate Finger and Strawberry Skewers\n \n How to make Chocolate Finger and Strawberry Skewers with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 10 min\n 8 skewers\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 8 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers, halved\n 16 strawberries\n Thick Greek yoghurt to serve\n 8 wooden skewers\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Thread strawberry, half a finger, strawberry onto each skewer, handling the biscuit as little as possible.\n Chill on a tray for twenty minutes before serving.\n Serve with a bowl of plain yoghurt to dip, not a sweetened one.\n Assemble at the last moment if the room is warm, because a soft finger will not stay on a skewer.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Crushed Finger Sundae Topping\n \n How to make Crushed Finger Sundae Topping with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 5 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 6 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers\n Vanilla or coffee ice cream\n A pinch of flaky salt\n A shot of hot espresso, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Bash the fingers in a bag to a coarse rubble. The enclosed coating means you get sweet crumb and chocolate flecks together.\n Scoop the ice cream and scatter the rubble over it while it is still cold.\n Add the pinch of salt, which does more for this than any sauce would.\n Pour a shot of hot espresso over the top if it is for adults.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Keeping the Snap\n \n How to make Keeping the Snap with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers.\n \n 3 min\n One pack\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n The open pack\n An airtight tin or a clip-lock box\n A cold shelf, not the fridge door\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Reseal or decant on the day you open it. Exposed chocolate dulls and picks up kitchen smells faster than any crumb goes soft.\n Keep them away from onions, spices and coffee, which are the three things chocolate absorbs fastest.\n Chill before serving rather than storing permanently in the fridge, and never on the door where the temperature swings.\n Do not leave the pack open on a warm table during a party. Put out half and refill.\n \n \n \n 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."
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