Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g
Against a chocolate bar this makes more sense than it does against a biscuit. The shortcake inside is fine, dry and close-crumbed, there to give the chocolate something to break on rather than to be tasted on its own. Sweet, small, over quickly. A warm pocket turns it soft and leaves the covering pale. Wheat in the biscuit, milk in the covering; two diets are ruled out before flavour is discussed.
Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, in brief.
Cadbury Snack Shortcake is a five-bar multipack of small wrapped biscuits, 20g each and 100g in total, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the pocket-sized break bar rather than a tin or tray biscuit.
Under the chocolate is shortcake rather than wafer or a cream filling: a fine, close, slightly sandy crumb with a clean break, which is why the bar eats denser than its weight suggests. Twenty grams is the point, not a shortcoming, because one is enough and there is no decision to make about stopping.
Twenty grams is small, and that is the design rather than a shortcoming. A Snack is meant to be the thing you eat at eleven o'clock without it becoming lunch, and the bar is sized so that one is enough and there is no decision to make about stopping. Underneath the chocolate is shortcake rather than wafer or a stacked cream build, which is the fine, close, slightly sandy crumb that breaks cleanly and melts quickly, and it is the reason this bar eats denser than its weight suggests.
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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Cadbury
The Cadbury Snack range is one of the oldest ideas in the British biscuit aisle: a small wrapped bar, fully covered in milk chocolate, eaten in a break rather than at a table. The Shortcake is the plainer of the two familiar versions, with a close-crumbed biscuit underneath instead of a filling, and it is the better one if you want to taste biscuit as well as chocolate.
Shortcake here describes the crumb rather than a flavour. A short dough carries more fat in proportion to flour, which stops long gluten strands forming and gives that fine, sandy break instead of the airy snap of a wafer or the soft give of a cream. Enclosed in chocolate it stays dry and crisp inside the wrapper for the life of the pack, which is what a sealed bar is for.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Five bars of twenty grams: a hundred grams in the multipack.
- Individually wrapped: each bar stays sealed until it is opened, so the fifth one eats like the first however long the outer pack has been open.
- Enclosed in chocolate: the coating goes all the way round. That is what keeps the crumb dry and crisp, and it is also why heat rather than humidity is the thing to protect it from.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A sealed twenty-gram bar asks almost nothing of you. What is worth knowing is how heat treats it and why the size is the point.
The Break Serve
- One bar is the whole idea: twenty grams eaten standing up, and no decision to make about whether to have another.
- With something unsweetened: a strong black tea or a black coffee. A sweetened drink alongside a fully coated bar is too much of the same thing.
- Room temperature: milk chocolate straight from a fridge tastes of very little and the shortcake reads harder than it is.
- Do not dunk it: chocolate on every surface means the coating melts into the cup and the crumb softens through in seconds.
The Pocket and Bag Serve
- Good in a glovebox in winter, poor in summer: cold is only a flavour problem; heat is a texture and appearance one.
- Keep the rest sealed: an opened multipack starts no clock, because each bar is its own pack.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: strong black tea or black coffee. Both have the tannin or bitterness to stand against a fully coated bar.
- Also good with: a plain filter coffee mid-morning, which is exactly the occasion the twenty-gram size was built for.
- Avoid: hot chocolate and sweetened drinks, and dunking of any kind.
- Storage: cool, dry and out of direct sun. Everything else the wrapper handles.
- Best with: a coat pocket, a lunchbox, an eleven o'clock break, a school bag and a walk.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g is a small wrapped bar built for a break rather than a table, so most of what you do with it is carry it. Five builds below cover the eleven o'clock break, the lunchbox, a coat pocket for a walk, a shortcake crumb over poached pears and the half-bar habit.
Made with this tea
The Eleven O'Clock Break
How to make The Eleven O'Clock Break with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.
- 1 Cadbury Snack Shortcake bar
- 1 black filter coffee
- Five minutes away from the desk
- Brew a black filter coffee or a strong black tea. Something unsweetened, because the bar brings plenty of sugar.
- Unwrap one bar and eat it standing up. Twenty grams is meant to be the whole event.
- Do not dunk; the covering melts into the cup and the crumb gives way.
- Leave the other four sealed. There is no decision to make about a second one, which is the point of the size.
What you'll end up with: A five-minute break that does not turn into lunch. The format is doing the portion control.
The Lunchbox Bar
How to make The Lunchbox Bar with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.
- 1 wrapped Snack Shortcake bar
- 1 apple
- A carton of milk
- A cool bag in summer
- Pack the bar sealed; the wrapper is the packaging and nothing breaks up.
- Add fruit and an unsweetened drink.
- Use a cool bag in warm weather. This is the item in the box that heat genuinely spoils.
- Eat at room temperature rather than straight from a cold bag.
What you'll end up with: One of the tidiest lunchbox items we list: small, fixed, sealed and with nothing loose to arrive as crumbs.
The Coat Pocket Walk Bar
How to make The Coat Pocket Walk Bar with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.
- 2 Snack Shortcake bars
- A flask of black tea
- A coat with pockets
- Drop two sealed bars into a coat pocket. At twenty grams each they fit where no other biscuit format will.
- Carry a flask of black tea rather than a sweet drink.
- Eat them cold-weather rather than warm; winter is when a fully coated bar travels best.
- Bring the wrappers home.
In summer it belongs in a bag, not a pocket.
Shortcake Crumb Over Poached Pears
How to make Shortcake Crumb Over Poached Pears with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.
- 2 Snack Shortcake bars
- 4 firm pears, peeled
- 100g caster sugar
- Cream to serve
- Poach four peeled pears in 500ml of water with 100g of caster sugar for 20 minutes until tender, then lift them out.
- Chop two bars into rough crumbs at room temperature.
- Scatter the crumb over the warm pears at the last moment, so the chocolate just begins to soften.
- Serve with cream.
What you'll end up with: A chopped bar does the work of a chocolate sauce and a biscuit crumb at once. Scatter it late; scattered early it goes soft and the point is lost.
The Half-Bar Habit
How to make The Half-Bar Habit with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.
- 1 Snack Shortcake bar
- A knife
- Fruit for both
- Cut one bar cleanly in half across the middle. A shortcake crumb cuts without shattering where a wafer does not.
- Give half to each child with a piece of fruit.
- Keep the other four bars sealed.
- Watch nobody notices. Ten grams of a fully coated bar reads as a whole treat to a small child.
What you'll end up with: Two treats out of one bar, and the crumb is fine enough to cut cleanly rather than crumble. The most useful thing about a shortcake centre.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 510 kcal |
| Fat | 26g |
| of which saturates | 13g |
| Carbohydrate | 63g |
| of which sugars | 35g |
| Fibre | 2.1g |
| Protein | 6.6g |
| Salt | 0.6g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and milk, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: WHEAT flour, sugar, palm oil, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed MILK powder, dextrose, whey permeate (from MILK), rapeseed oil, MILK fat, whey powder (from MILK), glucose-fructose syrup, molasses, salt, emulsifiers (E442, E476), raising agents (sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates), flavouring. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wrapping | 5 bars, individually wrapped | Each bar is its own sealed pack, so the fifth eats like the first and an opened multipack starts no staleness clock. Twenty grams is the portion, decided before anyone reaches for it. |
| Pack format | 5 x 20g; 100g total | A small-bar multipack. |
Pack: Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g; five individually wrapped chocolate-covered shortcake bars, 100g in total. Store cool, dry and out of direct sun. Read the net weight, the bar count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
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Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g is made by Cadbury, and the Snack range is one of the oldest ideas in the British biscuit aisle: a small wrapped bar, fully covered in milk chocolate, eaten standing up rather than at a table. The Shortcake is the plainer of the two familiar versions, with a close-crumbed biscuit underneath instead of a filling, which makes it the one to choose if you want to taste biscuit as well as chocolate. Shortcake describes that crumb rather than a flavour: more fat in proportion to flour, so it breaks fine and sandy rather than airy.
What's in Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g, and what isn't:
- In: five individually wrapped shortcake biscuit bars of 20g each, covered in milk chocolate, 100g in the multipack.
- Contains cereal and gluten: not suitable for a coeliac diet.
- No vegan or dairy-free claim: a milk chocolate product is very unlikely to be either, but the pack makes that statement and we do not.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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