Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g
Salted caramel divides a British biscuit tin more cleanly than any other flavour, and the scores on this one show it. To one sort of eater the salt is a correction, a brake on a coating that would otherwise be sugar on sugar. To another it is savoury turning up uninvited in a chocolate biscuit, and no amount of argument has ever moved them. Nothing on the pack will settle that for you, so buy it if you already reach for salted caramel elsewhere and leave it if you do not. One thing about the format is worth knowing: the coating wraps the whole stick, so there is no plain stretch of biscuit between mouthfuls to reset the palate, and the third finger reads considerably stronger than the first. Two is the sensible serving. It is also the packet left behind when a plate goes round a room of children. Milk chocolate and a wheat spine, so not one for a vegan or a coeliac.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, in brief.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour is the familiar finger format with the one thing most chocolate biscuits lack, a counterweight, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the grown-up version of a plate biscuit most people first met at a party.
Salt is structural in a salted caramel product rather than decorative: caramel on its own is sugar on sugar, and the sodium note is what makes the combination work. Read the word Flavour in the name carefully, because it signals the character comes from flavouring rather than a caramel component. A hundred and fourteen grams, best served cool with an espresso.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour takes the familiar finger format and gives it the one thing most chocolate biscuits do not have: a counterweight. Salt is not a decoration in a salted caramel product, it is the structural element. Caramel on its own is sugar on sugar, and what makes the combination work at all is a sodium note cutting across it. Get the proportion right and the biscuit tastes balanced; get it wrong and it tastes like a novelty.
One word in the name is worth reading carefully before you order. Flavour is doing regulatory work there: it signals that the salted caramel character is delivered by flavouring rather than necessarily by a caramel component in the biscuit. That is not a criticism, it is simply how these line extensions are built and labelled, and it is the reason we describe the taste as salted caramel flavour throughout rather than as caramel. The ingredient declaration on the current UK pack is where you confirm what is actually in 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. Pairing, storage and the pudding builds are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Cadbury Fingers
Cadbury is the best-known chocolate name in Britain and Fingers are one of its longest-running biscuit formats, the thing that appears on a plate when people come round. The flavoured versions are a more recent habit and they are aimed squarely at adults: salted caramel is the flavour that persuaded a generation of grown-ups back onto a biscuit they associated with childhood parties, because it gives the plate an edge it did not previously have.
Cadbury's heritage is British; that is company heritage and not a claim about where this particular pack was made. The ingredient list, the allergen advice, the finger count and the net weight must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page.
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. A small sharing pack rather than a family one.
- A flavoured line extension: the salted caramel character comes from flavouring. If you were expecting a caramel layer inside the biscuit, this is not that product.
- Contains milk and gluten: milk chocolate contains milk and the spine is a wheat biscuit. This is not a vegan or gluten-free product.
- What it is not: not a dunker, not a plain Dairy Milk finger, and not a subtle biscuit. Salted caramel is a decisive flavour and people either want it or they do not.
Ideal Serving Conditions
Salt and sugar both read more strongly when a food is cool than when it is warm, and a milk chocolate coating on a thin stick softens quickly in the hand. Both facts point the same way.
The Afternoon Plate Serve
- Serve cool: ten minutes in the fridge before the pack is opened sharpens both the salt and the snap.
- Stand them up: in a short glass rather than flat on a plate, so they keep their gloss and come out one-handed.
- Do not crowd the plate: salted caramel is decisive enough that putting a second flavoured biscuit beside it muddles both.
- Two per person: they are thin, and a strong flavour goes further than a plain one.
The Coffee and Pudding Serve
- With espresso: the best pairing on the list. Coffee has the bitterness and the roasted note to meet burnt-sugar flavouring head on.
- With strong black tea: a full-bodied Assam works; a mild milky tea does not, because it adds sweetness rather than cutting it.
- In a pudding: banoffee pots, millionaire squares or a milkshake all take well to a salted caramel finger, because the salt survives being mixed into something else.
- With apple: a plate of sliced sharp apple and these fingers is a better pudding than it has any right to be.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: espresso first, then filter coffee, then a strong unsweetened Assam.
- Avoid: hot chocolate, caramel lattes and anything already carrying syrup. You will taste the syrup and nothing else.
- Dunking: no. The coating encloses the stick, so water enters only at the cut ends and the chocolate slides before the crumb softens usefully.
- Storage: cool, dry and dark, resealed or decanted to a tin. Salt draws moisture, so an open pack in a steamy kitchen loses its snap faster than a plain biscuit would.
- Best with: an afternoon coffee, a plate for adults, or as the biscuit in a pudding you are building yourself.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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How does it compare
Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g is the rare flavoured biscuit that holds its character when you mix it into something else, because salt survives where plain sweetness disappears. Six builds below cover the strong tea tray, banoffee pots, millionaire squares, an espresso pairing, a sharp apple plate and a salted caramel shake.
Made with this tea
The Strong Tea Tray
How to make The Strong Tea Tray with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 1 pack Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel, 114g
- A pot of strong unsweetened Assam
- Ten minutes of fridge time
- Chill the unopened pack for ten minutes. Cool fingers give you a distinct salt note; warm ones just read sweet.
- Stand them upright in a short glass rather than laying them flat, so they keep their gloss.
- Brew the Assam strong and serve it without sugar. Tannin against sweetness is the point.
- Resist putting a second flavoured biscuit on the plate. Salted caramel is decisive enough to muddle anything beside it.
What you'll end up with: Two fingers per person with a properly strong pot, and a plate that reads as balanced rather than sugary.
Salted Caramel Banoffee Pots
How to make Salted Caramel Banoffee Pots with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 8 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel
- 2 ripe bananas
- 300ml double cream
- 4 tablespoons dulce de leche
- A pinch of flaky salt
- Crush four fingers and divide the rubble between four small glasses as a base.
- Layer sliced banana and a tablespoon of dulce de leche into each glass.
- Whip 300ml of double cream to soft peaks and spoon it over, then add a pinch of flaky salt on top.
- Chill for an hour and spike a whole finger into each pot just before serving, so it stays crisp.
What you'll end up with: The salt in the biscuit and the pinch on top do the same job from both ends, which keeps a very sweet pudding honest.
Millionaire Squares
How to make Millionaire Squares with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 1 pack Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel, 114g
- 100g butter
- 397g tin of caramel
- 200g dark chocolate
- A good pinch of flaky salt
- Crush the whole pack to crumbs, stir in 100g of melted butter and press into a lined 20cm tin. Chill for thirty minutes.
- Spread a 397g tin of caramel over the set base and return it to the fridge for an hour.
- Pour over 200g of melted dark chocolate. Dark, not milk: the base and the middle are both sweet and the top has to argue back.
- Scatter flaky salt over the chocolate before it sets, chill for two hours and cut with a hot dry knife.
What you'll end up with: A millionaire's shortbread with salt built into the base as well as the top. Keeps four days covered in the fridge.
Espresso and Two Fingers
How to make Espresso and Two Fingers with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 2 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel
- 1 double espresso, unsweetened
- A small glass of cold water
- Pull a double espresso and leave it unsweetened. Sugar in the cup wipes out the salt in the biscuit.
- Snap each finger in half and eat a piece between sips.
- Notice the roasted note in the coffee meeting the burnt-sugar note in the flavouring. That is why this pairing works and a caramel latte does not.
- Finish with cold water.
What you'll end up with: The best three minutes you can spend with this biscuit, and the pairing we would recommend over any tea.
Sharp Apple Plate
How to make a Sharp Apple Plate with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 8 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel
- 2 sharp eating apples, Cox or Braeburn
- Juice of half a lemon
- A wedge of hard cheese, optional
- Slice the apples thinly and turn them in lemon juice so they do not brown.
- Arrange them on a plate with the fingers laid across.
- Add a wedge of hard cheese if you want the savoury note doubled.
- Serve straight away, before the apple wets the biscuit.
What you'll end up with: Salted caramel and sharp apple is an old kitchen pairing, and this is the five-minute version of it.
Salted Caramel Shake
How to make a Salted Caramel Shake with Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel.
- 4 Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel
- 300ml cold milk
- 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A pinch of salt
- Ice
- Break three fingers into a blender with 300ml of cold milk, three scoops of vanilla ice cream and a pinch of salt.
- Blitz in short bursts so some biscuit texture survives into the glass.
- Pour over ice into two tall glasses.
- Spike the last finger into one of them and drink it straight away.
What you'll end up with: A shake that actually tastes of salted caramel rather than caramel syrup, because the salt came from the biscuit.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
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Pack: Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g; thin shortcake sticks coated in milk chocolate with salted caramel flavour. Store cool, dry and dark, and reseal or decant to a tin once opened. Read the net weight, the finger count, the ingredient list, the salt and nutrition panel, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown.
Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g is made under the Cadbury name, the best-known chocolate brand in Britain, and Fingers are one of its longest-running biscuit formats. The flavoured versions are a more recent habit and they are aimed at adults rather than children: salted caramel is the flavour that brought a generation of grown-ups back to a biscuit they associated with childhood parties, because it gives a plate an edge it did not previously have.
What's in Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g, and what isn't:
- In: a thin wheat shortcake stick enclosed in milk chocolate with salted caramel flavour, in a 114g pack.
- A flavoured line extension: the word Flavour in the product name signals that the salted caramel character comes from flavouring rather than necessarily a caramel component. The pack declaration is the only reliable source.
- Contains milk: milk chocolate contains milk. This is not a vegan or dairy-free product.
- Contains gluten: the spine is a wheat biscuit and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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