Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods
The disc that earns the machine its space in a house where not everyone drinks coffee. It is milk chocolate rather than dark cocoa, sweet by design, creamy and coating rather than bitter, so anyone after a serious continental drinking chocolate should look elsewhere and not blame the pod for it. Children take to it immediately, which is worth a word of caution: it comes out hot enough to scald, and cocoa is not caffeine free. Ten in the box. Good on a cold afternoon and better on a film night.
Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, in brief.
Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate is the chocolate T DISC for Tassimo machines, ten discs to a box on a Cadbury recipe, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection as the drink that makes a pod machine worth owning in a house where not everybody drinks coffee.
Best served in a small cup while the foam still holds.
Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate is the chocolate disc for Tassimo machines, ten to a box, and it is the reason a lot of households keep a pod machine on the worktop at all. Not everyone in the house drinks coffee. A machine that can make a hot chocolate for a child at four in the afternoon and an americano for an adult at eight in the morning earns its space in a way a coffee-only machine does not.
Cadbury is the British chocolate house from Bournville, and a Cadbury hot chocolate is a specific flavour memory for most people in this country rather than a generic cocoa drink. What the Tassimo system adds is the thing a mug and a spoon cannot do: the machine pushes hot water through the disc under pressure, so the chocolate is properly dissolved and lightly foamed instead of sitting in lumps at the bottom of the cup. It is the difference between a made drink and a stirred one.
Curator notes: the sweetness, body and cocoa scores are our own reading of the current ten disc box against Cadbury and Tassimo's published notes. We dispatch most orders of Cadbury Hot Chocolate discs in 1 to 2 working days. For storage, which machines it fits and how to serve it, see the Q and A tab below.
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4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at teas.co.uk
The Story Behind Tassimo and Cadbury
Tassimo is the disc system rather than the drinks brand, which is why the box carries two names. Each T DISC has a barcode printed on it and the machine reads that code to set the water volume and the brew for that particular drink, so a chocolate disc and a coffee disc behave differently in the same machine without you changing a setting. Cadbury supplies the chocolate recipe. That division is why the box is worth buying as a Cadbury product rather than as a generic machine chocolate.
Packaging: Used Cadbury discs and their carton may need different bins; check the box and council rules.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Disc disposal is a scheme, not a bin rule: the general waste, a collection scheme or the household recycling bin could each be right for spent T DISCs, depending on the current pack and your council. Read both before you decide.
- Portioned drinks waste less: a sealed disc makes one mug and nothing goes stale in a half-used tin at the back of the cupboard.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Tassimo
Packaging: Used Cadbury discs and their carton may need different bins; check the box and council rules.
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
To get the best out of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, the work is in the cup you serve it in and the state of the machine. A chocolate disc is more forgiving than a coffee one, but it is also the disc most likely to leave residue behind.
The Machine Build
The Luxury Build
Made with this tea
The Standard Cup, Done Properly
How to make The Standard Cup, Done Properly with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- Fresh cold water in the tank
- A small cup, warmed
- A spoon
- Warm a small cup rather than a large mug, because a chocolate spread thin loses its body.
- Load one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods with the barcode facing the reader as the manual shows.
- Brew and let the machine set the volume from the code.
- Run a water-only cycle afterwards to keep the machine clean.
What you'll end up with: A properly dissolved, lightly foamed chocolate with no lumps at the bottom, which a mug and a spoon cannot manage.
The Luxury Cup
How to make The Luxury Cup with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- 2 tablespoons warm milk
- A spoonful of whipped cream
- Marshmallows or grated chocolate
- Pour 2 tablespoons of warm milk into the cup before anything else, which thickens the finished drink noticeably.
- Brew one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods straight on top of it.
- Top with cream and marshmallows immediately, while the foam is still firm enough to hold them up.
What you'll end up with: A café-style chocolate in two minutes, and no chocolate-crusted pan in the sink.
Iced Chocolate Shake
How to make Iced Chocolate Shake with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- A tall glass filled with ice
- 100ml cold milk
- A long spoon
- Fill the glass with ice to the top.
- Brew one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods short, straight over the ice.
- Top with 100ml of cold milk and stir hard from the bottom.
What you'll end up with: Something close to a chocolate milkshake, which is what the box is for in July rather than January.
Two Disc Mocha
How to make Two Disc Mocha with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- 1 Tassimo black coffee disc
- A large mug, warmed
- Cream, optional
- Brew a black coffee disc into a warmed mug first.
- Brew one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods straight on top of the coffee.
- Stir once and top with cream if you want it.
- If you do this more than once a week, the ready-made Cadbury Mocha box is the tidier answer.
What you'll end up with: A mocha built from two discs you already own, with the chocolate leading rather than the coffee.
Mint Chocolate Cup
How to make Mint Chocolate Cup with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- 1 peppermint tea bag
- 50ml just boiled water
- A mint chocolate to serve, optional
- Steep a peppermint tea bag in 50ml of just boiled water for five minutes to make a strong mint concentrate.
- Pour the concentrate into the cup and remove the bag.
- Brew one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods on top of it.
What you'll end up with: An after-dinner mint in a cup, made from a tea bag you already had in the cupboard.
Chocolate Nightcap (Adult)
How to make Chocolate Nightcap (Adult) with Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate.
- 1 Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate disc
- 25ml dark rum or orange liqueur
- A strip of orange peel
- Cream to float, optional
- Pour 25ml of dark rum or orange liqueur into a warmed cup.
- Brew one disc of Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods straight on top of it.
- Twist a strip of orange peel over the surface and float a spoonful of cream on top.
What you'll end up with: The grown-up version of the drink the rest of the house is having, with orange oil sitting over the chocolate.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100ml, as published | Per 100ml |
|---|---|
| Energy | 56 kcal |
| Fat | 1.1g |
| of which saturates | 0.70g |
| Carbohydrate | 9.5g |
| of which sugars | 8.6g |
| Fibre | 0.42g |
| Protein | 1.8g |
| Salt | 0.15g |
Ingredients and allergens. Cadbury's published ingredients for this hot chocolate include both milk and soya. Cadbury recipes and allergy labels get updated, so check the current UK box first.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Sugar, Skimmed Milk Powder (22%), Whole Milk Powder, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder (9%), Glucose Syrup, Whey Powder (from Milk), Fully Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Salt, Flavourings, Milk Protein, Stabilizer (E340), Anti-Caking Agent (E551), Emulsifiers (E471, E433, Soya Lecithin).
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. Where this page and the Cadbury box disagree, side with the box.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee | none | Deliberately absent. This is the disc for the people in the house who do not drink coffee; the Cadbury Mocha box is the one with coffee in it. |
Pack: Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods; sweetened milk chocolate discs for Tassimo machines. Drink them before the date the box gives.
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Sourcing & blend. Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods pairs a Cadbury recipe with the Tassimo disc system, which is why two names appear on one box: Cadbury, the British chocolate house from Bournville, supplies the chocolate; Tassimo is the machine platform and the barcode-read disc that goes in it.
What's in Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods, and what isn't:
- In: a sweetened milk chocolate drink preparation sealed in discs for one machine system.
- Contains milk: the drink is dairy based, so vegan and dairy free diets are out.
- No coffee: it is a chocolate drink, though it does carry the small amount of caffeine that occurs naturally in cocoa.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate, 10 Pods, please cite teas.co.uk.
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