Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g
Sweetness here is high and it does not hang about, which is the genuinely useful thing about a wafer bar. There is so little mass to the thing that it clears in seconds where a dense chocolate biscuit would sit on the palate, so what you drink next still tastes of itself. That makes it the one on this shelf you can put beside a good cup without the cup paying for it. Two practical points after that. The milk chocolate is soft at mouth temperature by design, so in a warm room the covering gives up long before the wafer does and you are left with a smeared bar and a perfectly sound centre; a cool cupboard, then, rather than a windowsill. And do not dunk it, because coating and wafer both fail inside a second and a wafer that has taken up water never firms up again. Milk and wheat, with the rest of the allergen advice on the current pack.
Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, in brief.
Cadbury Timeout is five individually wrapped milk chocolate wafer bars of 18g, 90g to the pack: a light shattering wafer sealed inside a chocolate covering that doubles as its moisture barrier.
A wafer is mostly air, so weight is the wrong measure here. Brew medium to strong, no sugar, and do not dunk: coating and wafer both fail within a second.
Cadbury Timeout is a multipack of five individually wrapped chocolate-covered wafer bars, eighteen grams each, ninety grams of bar to the pack.
A wafer is mostly air. It is a thin baked batter sheet layered with a fat-based filling, and the whole construction is built to be light, which means a wafer bar is physically much larger than its weight suggests. Comparing it by the gram against a dense shortbread or a digestive tells you almost nothing useful.
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. Storage notes and pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Pack
Cadbury is one of the best-known names in British chocolate and Timeout is among its long-running wrapped-bar lines, sold in multipacks for lunchboxes and breaks. That is brand heritage rather than a claim about where this pack was made or what is in it.
What is worth knowing about a coated wafer is that the coating is not only a flavour, it is the packaging. A wafer draws moisture out of the air readily, and once it has taken any up it goes from shattering to leathery and never comes back. An uncoated wafer left on a plate is noticeably softer within the hour. Sealing it inside a continuous layer of chocolate puts a fat barrier between the wafer and the room, which is why a coated wafer bar can sit in a cupboard for weeks and still collapse properly when you bite it. It also explains why a cracked or scuffed bar is genuinely worse than an intact one rather than just less tidy: the barrier has been breached. Five individual wrappers are doing the same job one layer further out.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market.
- Individual wrapping adds material and we would rather say so. On a wafer it is doing more work than on most biscuits, because a breached bar is not a slightly untidy bar, it is a soft one, and soft wafers get thrown away.
Serving Notes For Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g
- Water temperature: Full boil. Nothing here is delicate.
- Measure: One bag per 200ml, one bar per person.
- Steep: Three to four minutes, medium to strong.
- Service: Milk optional, sugar no.
- Dunk: No, and more emphatically than for any coated biscuit. The wafer goes as fast as the chocolate does.
- Iced version: Skip it. Cold flattens the covering and the wafer contributes nothing cold that it does not contribute warm.
- Best with: A standard breakfast blend, a plain black coffee, or a flat white if the bar is standing in for a biscuit beside one.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g, 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
A coated wafer is an easier pairing than a dense chocolate biscuit, and the reason is mass. There is so little of it that the sweetness clears quickly on its own, so the cup does not have to fight. What it does need to be is hot and unsweetened; a tepid or sugared drink leaves the chocolate sitting on the palate longer than it should.
The Everyday Mug
The Coffee Break Route
Made with this tea
The Everyday Mug
How to make The Everyday Mug with Cadbury Timeout.
- 1 bag standard black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- 1 Timeout bar
- A splash of milk, optional
- Brew one bag in 200ml straight off the boil for three to four minutes, medium to strong.
- Leave the sugar out. Milk chocolate is what needs clearing and sugar works against that.
- Unwrap and eat the bar whole. The pleasure is in the first bite and it does not repeat.
- Do not dunk. Coating and wafer both fail within about a second and nothing comes back out.
The Coffee Break
How to make The Coffee Break with Cadbury Timeout.
- 1 plain black coffee
- 1 Timeout bar
- Room temperature, not fridge cold
- Pour a plain black coffee rather than anything milky and sweet.
- Let the bar come to room temperature if it has been somewhere cold; the covering needs to soften at mouth temperature.
- Bite and listen. The shatter of the wafer sheets is half of what you are paying for.
- Finish in ninety seconds and go back to work, which is what the format is actually for.
What you'll end up with: The pairing this kind of bar has always suited, in about two minutes.
The Squash Test
How to make The Squash Test with Cadbury Timeout.
- 1 pack of 5 bars
- A rigid lunchbox or tin
- A flat shelf, not a crowded drawer
- Store the bars flat rather than upright in a crowded drawer. A hollow bar crushes far more easily than a solid biscuit.
- Check for cracks before you pack one. A breached coating means that bar will soften where the others will not.
- Eat any damaged bar first rather than saving it for later in the week.
- Keep the rest cool, dry and away from anything strongly scented, because a chocolate surface takes up smells.
What you'll end up with: Five bars that all snap like the first one, which on a wafer is entirely down to how they were stored.
Wafer Chunk Refrigerator Cake
How to make Wafer Chunk Refrigerator Cake with Cadbury Timeout.
- 3 Timeout bars, chopped
- 150g plain biscuits, broken
- 80g butter
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- A 20cm tin, lined
- Melt the butter and syrup over a low heat and take the pan off before it catches.
- Cool the mixture for a few minutes before adding the chopped bars, so the wafer does not go soft in the warmth.
- Fold in the broken biscuits and the wafer chunks last, working quickly and keeping the pieces large.
- Chill for three hours and serve the same day; wafer softens in anything wet given enough time.
What you'll end up with: Pockets of crunch running through a set traybake, which is the one thing a wafer does that a biscuit cannot.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 517 kcal |
| Fat | 26.00g |
| of which saturates | 14.00g |
| Carbohydrate | 64.00g |
| of which sugars | 44.00g |
| Fibre | 2.20g |
| Protein | 5.30g |
| Salt | 0.23g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product 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 product: sugar, WHEAT flour, palm oil, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed MILK powder, whey permeate (from MILK), WHEAT starch, MILK fat, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifiers (E442, E476, SOYA lecithins), rapeseed oil, potato starch, salt, raising agents (sodium carbonates, ammonium carbonates), flavouring.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Milk chocolate covering | the whole exterior | The lead flavour and, structurally, the most important component: it is a fat barrier that keeps the wafer inside it dry. Soft at mouth temperature, which is why a room-temperature bar eats better than a cold one. |
| Baked wafer | the body, and mostly air | Thin batter sheets that give a light shattering collapse no solid biscuit can produce. Almost no flavour of its own; the whole contribution is textural. |
| Fat-based filling | between the layers | Binds the wafer sheets and softens the break, so the bar gives way cleanly instead of crumbling. It also carries a little of the sweetness. |
| Individual wrappers | 5 to the pack | A second barrier outside the chocolate one, and the reason the fifth bar is in the same condition as the first. It also protects a hollow bar from being crushed. |
| Pack weight | 5 x 18g | 90g to the pack, worked out from the bar weight and bar count in the published pack listing. |
Pack: Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g; a multipack of five individually wrapped chocolate-covered wafer bars. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best stored flat and unsquashed.
Sourcing & blend. Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g is made by Cadbury, one of the best-known names in British chocolate, and Timeout is among its long-running wrapped-bar lines sold in multipacks for lunchboxes and breaks. That is brand heritage rather than a claim about where this pack was made or what is in it. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The reading of the covering as the bar's moisture barrier, and of the wafer as a textural rather than a flavour component, is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.
What is in Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g, and what is not:
- In: five individually wrapped milk chocolate wafer bars of 18g each, 90g to the pack.
- Not a dense biscuit: the bar is mostly air by volume, which is why weight is a poor way to compare it with a shortbread or a digestive. That is an editorial point about the format rather than a claim off the pack.
- Not a dunker: coating and wafer both fail in hot liquid within about a second, so there is nothing to lift back out. We would rather say so plainly.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Cadbury Timeout Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 x 18g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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