Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g
Nobody buys these for themselves. They go on a plate at a birthday, a christening, a buffet, and they get eaten by children and by the adults who said they did not want anything. That is the real market for them and it is a large one. White chocolate brings no cocoa at all, so nothing in the biscuit pulls against the sugar and the snap is the only other event in the mouth, which is fine, because the snap is very good indeed. Milk solids and a wheat spine, so neither vegan nor gluten-free.
Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, in brief.
Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate is the white-coated version of the biscuit that gets handed round British living rooms, a thin shortcake stick enclosed in chocolate on every side, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the sharing plate biscuit rather than the tin one.
A finger is mostly coating with just enough biscuit to give it a spine, and white chocolate has no cocoa solids at all, so there is nothing in it pulling against the sugar. Serve it cool, stand the fingers in a glass rather than laying them flat, and put something sharp next to them.
Going white changes that considerably. White chocolate contains no cocoa solids at all, which means it brings no bitterness whatever to the biscuit, only cocoa butter, milk and sugar. That is either exactly what you want or exactly what you do not, and it is worth knowing which before the pack arrives. What it does mean is that the drink next to it has to work harder than usual.
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 birthday cake fence 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 occupy a specific place in the national repertoire: the biscuit that comes out on a plate when people come round, goes round the edge of a birthday cake as a fence, and gets eaten standing up at parties. The format survives because it needs no plate, no knife and no explaining, and because a stick is easier to hand a child than a round biscuit.
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.
- Coated all round: the whole stick is enclosed, not dipped on one side. That is what makes the coating the dominant flavour and what keeps your fingers clean until the chocolate warms.
- Contains milk and gluten: white chocolate contains milk solids 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 quiet biscuit and not a grown-up tin biscuit. It is a sharing plate biscuit and a party biscuit, and it is very good at being both.
Ideal Serving Conditions
White chocolate is the softest-handling of the three coatings on a biscuit shelf, and on a finger there is a great deal of it relative to the biscuit underneath. Keep this pack cool and serve it cool, and it behaves; leave it in a warm room for an afternoon and you will be wiping fingers.
The Sharing Plate Serve
- Cool first: ten minutes in the fridge before they go on the plate makes a visible difference to how they look and how they handle.
- Stand them up: in a short glass or a jar rather than laid flat. They are easier to take one-handed and they stay off a warm plate.
- Pair with something sharp: raspberries, sliced strawberries or a bowl of pomegranate seeds. Fruit acidity is the counterweight the biscuit does not carry.
- Not alongside anything else sweet: put these next to a caramel biscuit and neither registers.
The Tea Tray Serve
- Strong tea, unsweetened: a proper builder's brew or a full-bodied Assam. The tannin in a strong black tea is the best available answer to this much sweetness.
- Or something sharp and caffeine-free: a hibiscus or lemon infusion works surprisingly well, because acidity cuts sweetness just as effectively as bitterness does.
- Dunking: we would not, and the construction explains why. The coating wraps the whole stick, so the only way water gets in is through the cut ends, and by the time it has the chocolate is already sliding.
- Two per person: they are thin, and they go quickly.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: strong unsweetened black tea, a sharp fruit infusion, or black coffee if you want the sharpest possible contrast.
- Avoid: hot chocolate, sweetened tea, milky mild teas and anything with syrup in it.
- Dunking: no. The coating is a waterproof sleeve and the ends let water in faster than you can lift.
- Storage: cool, dry and dark, resealed or decanted to a tin once open. White chocolate picks up strong kitchen smells more readily than dark, so keep it away from anything savoury.
- Best with: visitors, a children's party, a birthday cake that needs a fence, or an afternoon pot of strong tea.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Fingers White 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
Six builds below cover the sharing plate, a raspberry dip, the birthday cake fence, white chocolate rocky road, a crushed cheesecake topping and a sundae.
Made with this tea
The Sharing Plate
How to make The Sharing Plate with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 1 pack Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate, 114g
- A punnet of raspberries or sliced strawberries
- A pot of strong unsweetened black tea
- Ten minutes of fridge time
- Chill the unopened pack for ten minutes. It makes a visible difference to the gloss and to how the fingers handle.
- Stand the fingers upright in a short glass or a small jar rather than laying them on a plate, so they stay cool and come out one-handed.
- Put a bowl of sharp fruit beside them. Acidity is the counterweight this biscuit does not carry itself.
- Brew the tea strong and leave the sugar out of it.
What you'll end up with: A plate that looks considered and takes ten minutes, with the sweetness properly balanced rather than piled on.
Fingers and Raspberry Dip
How to make Fingers and Raspberry Dip with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 12 Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate
- 200g raspberries
- 150g thick plain yoghurt
- Juice of half a lemon
- Crush 200g of raspberries with the juice of half a lemon and push half of them through a sieve to remove the seeds.
- Ripple the purée through 150g of thick plain yoghurt without fully mixing it, so there are sharp pockets.
- Serve the dip cold with the fingers stood upright beside it.
- Keep the dip properly tart. Sweetening it defeats the whole point of the exercise.
What you'll end up with: The sourness does for this biscuit what a strong tea does, and turns a very sweet finger into a balanced pudding.
The Birthday Cake Fence
How to make The Birthday Cake Fence with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 2 packs Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate
- 1 round cake, 18 to 20cm
- Buttercream or ganache to stick them to
- A ribbon
- Coat the sides of the cake generously with buttercream or ganache so the fingers have something to grip.
- Stand the fingers upright around the edge, side by side, pressing each one gently into the coating.
- Tie a ribbon round the middle to hold the fence and hide any uneven ends.
- Fill the top with sweets or fruit. A white fence takes colour better than a milk chocolate one.
What you'll end up with: The classic British birthday cake that needs no piping skill at all, and looks far harder than it is.
White Chocolate Rocky Road
How to make White Chocolate Rocky Road with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 1 pack Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate, 114g
- 300g white chocolate
- 80g butter
- 100g dried cranberries
- 50g chopped pistachios, optional
- Snap the fingers into three each. Keep the pieces chunky so they stay visible in the set slab.
- Melt 300g of white chocolate with 80g of butter very gently. White chocolate seizes faster than dark, so use a low heat and stir constantly.
- Fold in the biscuit pieces and 100g of dried cranberries, plus pistachios if you are using them, and press into a lined 20cm tin.
- Chill for two hours and cut into twelve squares.
What you'll end up with: The cranberries are not optional in spirit: without something tart this is sweetness on sweetness. Keeps four days in a tin somewhere cool.
Crushed Finger Cheesecake Topping
How to make a Crushed Finger Cheesecake Topping with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 6 Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate
- 1 chilled cheesecake
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Crush six fingers to a rough rubble rather than a powder. You want shards you can see.
- Scatter them over a chilled cheesecake just before serving, not before, or they soften.
- Grate lemon zest over the top to cut through the sweetness.
- Serve immediately.
What you'll end up with: Five minutes turns a plain cheesecake into a finished pudding, and the lemon zest stops it being sugar on sugar.
Finger Sundae Spikes
How to make Finger Sundae Spikes with Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate.
- 4 Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate
- 4 scoops vanilla or raspberry ice cream
- A handful of raspberries
- 2 tablespoons cold double cream
- Layer two scoops of ice cream and a scatter of raspberries into each glass.
- Spoon cold double cream over the top.
- Spike two fingers into each sundae at an angle, so they stand up out of the glass.
- Serve at once. The fingers soften quickly once they meet ice cream.
What you'll end up with: The stick shape earning its keep: a sundae that looks assembled rather than scooped, and a biscuit you eat with your hands.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 528 kcal |
| Fat | 29g |
| of which saturates | 16g |
| Carbohydrate | 60g |
| of which sugars | 33g |
| Fibre | 1.6g |
| Protein | 6.2g |
| Salt | 0.5g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Wheat flour (with calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), sugar, cocoa butter, palm oil, whole milk powder, lactose and milk proteins, partially inverted sugar syrup, salt, emulsifiers (soya lecithins, E476), raising agents (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates), flavouring.
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 Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g; thin shortcake sticks coated in white chocolate on every side. Store cool, dry and dark, away from strong kitchen smells, and reseal or decant to a tin once opened. Read the net weight, the finger count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
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Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g is made under the Cadbury name, the best-known chocolate brand in Britain. Fingers hold a particular place in the national repertoire: the biscuit that goes on a plate when people come round, stands round the edge of a birthday cake as a fence, and gets eaten standing up at parties. The format survives because it needs no plate, no knife and no explaining, and because a stick is easier to hand a child than a round biscuit.
What's in Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g, and what isn't:
- In: a thin wheat shortcake stick enclosed in white chocolate on every side, in a 114g pack.
- Contains milk: white chocolate contains milk solids. 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.
- No cocoa solids: white chocolate carries cocoa butter but no cocoa solids, which is why there is no bitterness in this biscuit to balance the sugar.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Fingers White Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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