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    "title": "Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g",
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    "excerpt": "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.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.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.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.",
    "content_text": "Cadbury Snack Shortcake is a five-bar multipack of small wrapped biscuits, twenty grams each and a hundred grams in total.\nTwenty 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.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nMilk Chocolate: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Sweet, creamy and unmistakable, and it covers the whole bar rather than one face.\nShortcake Crumb: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Fine, close and slightly sandy, with a clean break. More biscuit character than a wafer bar gives and less sugar than a cream-filled one.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) High, as any fully coated bar is, but held in check by the twenty-gram size more than by the recipe.\nPortability: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Small, sealed and rigid. It fits a coat pocket, which most biscuit formats do not.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind Cadbury\n\nThe 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.\n\nShortcake 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.\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\nFive bars of twenty grams: a hundred grams in the multipack.\nIndividually 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.\nEnclosed 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.\n\n How Does Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g Compare to:\n\nCadbury Snack Shortcake Milk Chocolate Biscuits Bar, 40g: the same biscuit in a single bar twice the size. Buy the single when you want one now; buy this multipack when you want five, because it is more convenient.\nCadbury Timeout 5-pack Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack (5x bars), 18g: the wafer answer. A wafer is lighter and airier and gone faster; shortcake has a closer crumb and more to chew on.\nMcVitie's Club Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g: seven bars in the pack. A thicker bar with a flavoured filling and a heavier coating; the Snack is the smaller, plainer and more restrained of the two.\n\n Ideal Serving Conditions\n\nA 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.\n\nThe Break Serve\n\nOne bar is the whole idea: twenty grams eaten standing up, and no decision to make about whether to have another.\nWith 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.\nRoom temperature: milk chocolate straight from a fridge tastes of very little and the shortcake reads harder than it is.\nDo not dunk it: chocolate on every surface means the coating melts into the cup and the crumb softens through in seconds.\n\nThe Pocket and Bag Serve\n\nGood in a glovebox in winter, poor in summer: cold is only a flavour problem; heat is a texture and appearance one.\nKeep the rest sealed: an opened multipack starts no clock, because each bar is its own pack.\n\n Getting It Right with a Hot Drink\n\nPairing: strong black tea or black coffee. Both have the tannin or bitterness to stand against a fully coated bar.\nAlso good with: a plain filter coffee mid-morning, which is exactly the occasion the twenty-gram size was built for.\nAvoid: hot chocolate and sweetened drinks, and dunking of any kind.\nStorage: cool, dry and out of direct sun. Everything else the wrapper handles.\nBest with: a coat pocket, a lunchbox, an eleven o'clock break, a school bag and a walk.\n\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: 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.\n\nMilk chocolate: a dairy-free or vegan claim is very unlikely to apply to a milk chocolate product, but that is the pack's statement to make and not ours.\n\nNo health claim: a small bar is a small sweet, not a light one.\n\nWrappers are not a toy.",
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                "content": "How many bars are in the pack?Five bars of twenty grams, which is 100g in total. The pack's own net weight statement is the one to go by. What is shortcake, exactly?A description of the crumb rather than a flavour. A short dough carries more fat in proportion to flour, which stops long gluten strands forming and gives a fine, close, slightly sandy break instead of the airy snap of a wafer or the soft give of a cream filling. Can I dunk it?No. The chocolate goes all the way round, so it melts into the drink rather than holding the biscuit together, and a fine shortcake crumb softens through in seconds. Keep it beside the cup and dunk a ginger nut or a digestive if that is what you want. Will it survive a coat pocket?Better than any other biscuit format we list, because it is small, sealed and rigid. How does it compare to a wafer bar?A wafer is lighter, airier and gone faster; shortcake has a closer crumb and more to chew on, so it feels more substantial at the same weight. If you want the biscuit to be noticeable rather than just a vehicle for chocolate, shortcake is the one. Is it a good lunchbox item?Yes, and it is one of the tidiest. Twenty grams is a small fixed portion, the wrapper keeps it fresh, and there is nothing loose to break up. It will soften in a warm bag, so a cool bag in summer is worth the trouble. What should I drink with it?A strong black tea or a black coffee. Something unsweetened, because a fully coated bar brings plenty of sugar with it. A hot chocolate alongside is too much of the same thing. Is there anything to do with it in the kitchen?Crumbled over poached pears or good vanilla ice cream, a chopped bar does the job of a chocolate sauce and a biscuit crumb at once. Use it at room temperature and scatter it at the last moment, or the crumb softens and the point is lost. Is a small bar a lighter option?It is a smaller one, which is not the same thing, and we will not dress it up. A twenty-gram fully coated bar is a small sweet. How long do they keep?To the best-before date printed on the pack, which is the only date to go by. Because each bar is sealed separately, opening the multipack does not start a staleness clock the way opening a pack of loose biscuits does."
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                "content": "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.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy510 kcalFat26gof which saturates13gCarbohydrate63gof which sugars35gFibre2.1gProtein6.6gSalt0.6gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsWrapping5 bars, individually wrappedEach 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 format5 x 20g; 100g totalA 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.Characterising components shown.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:\nIn: five individually wrapped shortcake biscuit bars of 20g each, covered in milk chocolate, 100g in the multipack.\n\nContains cereal and gluten: not suitable for a coeliac diet.\nNo 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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                "content": "The flavour of Cadbury Snack Chocolate Covered Shortcake Multipack Biscuits, 5 x 20g 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 chocolate covering, and because it encloses the bar completely it is doing two jobs at once. It is the first flavour to arrive from any angle, and it is also a moisture barrier, which is why a shortcake crumb stays dry and crisp inside a sealed wrapper for the whole life of the pack while a loose shortcake biscuit would have gone leathery in a week. The aroma arrives all at once on opening rather than fading across a pack, which is the quiet advantage of a wrapped format.The flavour spike is the meeting of sweet coating and fine crumb, and it is quicker here than in a cream-filled bar. Milk chocolate reads creamy and sugary rather than cocoa-bitter, and a shortcake crumb is faintly sweet and slightly sandy underneath it rather than soft, so the mid-palate is short and clean instead of coating and lingering. At twenty grams the whole event is over in three or four bites, which is exactly what the format was designed for.The base structure is the shortcake structure, and it is the reason to choose this over a wafer. A short dough gives a close, fine break with a slight sandiness that stays in the mouth a moment longer than an airy wafer does, so a twenty-gram Snack eats more substantially than its weight suggests. The finish is short and sweet and closes cleanly, without the dry cereal note a plain biscuit leaves behind. It is the difference between a bar that feels like a break and one that feels like a mouthful of air.Getting it right in the cup. There is no steeping here, so the question is what goes alongside: something unsweetened, a strong black tea or a black coffee, because a fully coated bar brings its own sugar. Do not dunk it. The covering is on every surface, so it melts into the cup rather than holding the biscuit together, and a fine crumb gives way in seconds. Eat it at room temperature rather than cold from a fridge, where milk chocolate tastes of very little and the shortcake reads harder than it is. And take the size seriously: twenty grams is meant to be the whole event, which is why this works at eleven o'clock where a bigger bar would spoil lunch.How water and temperature change it. Heat is the variable and humidity is not, which is the reverse of every loose biscuit on this shelf. The wrapper and the chocolate covering between them keep the crumb sealed away from the air, so the fifth bar eats like the first however long the outer pack has been open, and there is no staleness clock at all. What neither can do is keep heat out. The bloom is harmless and permanent. Cold is the smaller problem at the other end, costing flavour rather than appearance. Cool, dry, out of the sun, eaten at room temperature. None of this is a fault in the product; it is an enclosed chocolate format behaving exactly as its build dictates, and the same build is what keeps the shortcake crisp."
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                "content": "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.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Eleven O'Clock Break\n \n How to make The Eleven O'Clock Break with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.\n \n 5 min\n 1 serving\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 Cadbury Snack Shortcake bar\n 1 black filter coffee\n Five minutes away from the desk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew a black filter coffee or a strong black tea. Something unsweetened, because the bar brings plenty of sugar.\n Unwrap one bar and eat it standing up. Twenty grams is meant to be the whole event.\n Do not dunk; the covering melts into the cup and the crumb gives way.\n Leave the other four sealed. There is no decision to make about a second one, which is the point of the size.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A five-minute break that does not turn into lunch. The format is doing the portion control.\n\n \n The Lunchbox Bar\n \n How to make The Lunchbox Bar with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.\n \n 1 min\n 1 lunchbox\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 wrapped Snack Shortcake bar\n 1 apple\n A carton of milk\n A cool bag in summer\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pack the bar sealed; the wrapper is the packaging and nothing breaks up.\n Add fruit and an unsweetened drink.\n Use a cool bag in warm weather. This is the item in the box that heat genuinely spoils.\n Eat at room temperature rather than straight from a cold bag.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n The Coat Pocket Walk Bar\n \n How to make The Coat Pocket Walk Bar with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.\n \n 1 min\n 1 walk\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 Snack Shortcake bars\n A flask of black tea\n A coat with pockets\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Drop two sealed bars into a coat pocket. At twenty grams each they fit where no other biscuit format will.\n Carry a flask of black tea rather than a sweet drink.\n Eat them cold-weather rather than warm; winter is when a fully coated bar travels best.\n Bring the wrappers home.\n \n \n \n In summer it belongs in a bag, not a pocket.\n\n \n Shortcake Crumb Over Poached Pears\n \n How to make Shortcake Crumb Over Poached Pears with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.\n \n 25 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 Snack Shortcake bars\n 4 firm pears, peeled\n 100g caster sugar\n Cream to serve\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Poach four peeled pears in 500ml of water with 100g of caster sugar for 20 minutes until tender, then lift them out.\n Chop two bars into rough crumbs at room temperature.\n Scatter the crumb over the warm pears at the last moment, so the chocolate just begins to soften.\n Serve with cream.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n The Half-Bar Habit\n \n How to make The Half-Bar Habit with Cadbury Snack Shortcake.\n \n 2 min\n 2 children\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 Snack Shortcake bar\n A knife\n Fruit for both\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Cut one bar cleanly in half across the middle. A shortcake crumb cuts without shattering where a wafer does not.\n Give half to each child with a piece of fruit.\n Keep the other four bars sealed.\n Watch nobody notices. Ten grams of a fully coated bar reads as a whole treat to a small child.\n \n \n \n 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."
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