# Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £7.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/tassimo-cadbury-mocha-10-pods-160g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/tassimo-cadbury-mocha-10-pods-160g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Tassimo **Price:** £7.20 GBP **Servings:** 10 cups **Price per cup:** 72.00p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 92-96C **Brew time:** 4 min **GTIN:** 8711000615492 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Tassimo Cadbury Mocha is the chocolate-led drink in the Tassimo range, the Cadbury milk chocolate profile with a light coffee backbone underneath it, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the pack for the gap between a hot chocolate and a cappuccino.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains milk. 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.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. ## Description Tassimo Cadbury Mocha is the chocolate end of the Tassimo range: a mocha built on the Cadbury flavour rather than on a coffee house roast, so the cocoa leads and the coffee sits underneath it. It is the pack to reach for when a hot chocolate is not quite enough and a cappuccino is too much, which in most households is somewhere between four in the afternoon and last thing at night. A mocha is a compromise drink by design. Chocolate brings sweetness, fat and body; coffee brings roast and a little bitterness to stop the sweetness becoming cloying. The Cadbury version lands firmly on the chocolate side of the middle, which is the right call for the audience buying it, and it is why this drinks more like a chocolate drink with backbone than like a coffee with chocolate in it. The Taste Profile Cocoa depth: ●●●●○ (4/5) The Cadbury signature, milky and sweet rather than dark and bitter. Coffee backbone: ●●○○○ (2/5) A light roasted undercurrent that shows up in the finish rather than the first sip. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Confectionery sweet, fixed in the disc and not adjustable at the machine. Body: ●●●●○ (4/5) Thick and coating, closer to a drinking chocolate than to a milky coffee. Curators Rating 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Cadbury And The Tassimo System Cadbury is the British chocolate house whose milk chocolate set the national palate, and that is exactly what it brings to a coffee machine: a sweet, milky cocoa profile that most people in this country recognise before they have finished the first mouthful. Tassimo is the single-serve system the drink is built for, run by Jacobs Douwe Egberts, and the partnership works because Cadbury supplies a flavour everyone already knows while Tassimo supplies the delivery. That delivery is the interesting part. Each Tassimo disc carries a printed barcode, and the machine reads it before it brews, setting the water volume, the temperature and the flow rate for that specific drink. A chocolate drink needs a different pour from an espresso, and this is how the machine knows. There is no button to press twice, no dial to set and no way to get it wrong, which is the whole argument for a system like this over a jar of drinking chocolate and a kettle. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. How Does Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g Compare to: Tassimo Costa Cappuccino: a proper coffee drink with milk foam, where the roast leads and there is no chocolate at all. It is the better morning cup; Tassimo Cadbury Mocha is the better afternoon one. Tassimo L'Or Caramel Latte Macchiato: the other sweet drink in the same machine range, but caramel rather than cocoa, and built in visible layers. Caramel reads sharper and lighter; the Cadbury mocha is the heavier, rounder of the two. Ideal Brewing Conditions The machine fixes the brew, so the variables you still control with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha are the cup, the water in the tank and what you do in the thirty seconds after it finishes pouring. The Standard Machine Serve Cup: Use a wide mug rather than a tall glass. A chocolate drink wants surface area, not depth, and it holds its heat better in something squat. Warm the mug: Rinse with hot water and tip it out. Chocolate drinks lose heat faster than black coffee because of the fat and sugar in them. Brew: Insert the disc barcode down and let the machine finish its cycle before you move the mug. Stir once: Unlike a layered macchiato, this one wants stirring. Cocoa solids settle within a minute of pouring. The Grown-Up Mocha Brew short: Run the drink into a smaller cup than usual so it arrives more concentrated. Add salt: A small pinch of flaked sea salt on top, stirred through, pulls the sweetness back and pushes the cocoa forward. Optional bitter edge: A square of dark chocolate dropped in and stirred until it melts adds the bitterness the Cadbury profile deliberately leaves out. Finish: Drink it straight away, before the fat starts to separate at the edges. Brewing The Perfect Cup of Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g Machine: Tassimo only. The barcode system is proprietary and these discs will not brew in a Dolce Gusto, Nespresso or Lavazza machine. Water: Fresh cold water in the tank every day. Standing water dulls chocolate drinks even more obviously than it dulls coffee. Stir: Once, immediately after pouring, and again if it stands. Cocoa solids drop to the bottom of the mug quickly. Cleaning: Run a plain water rinse after every chocolate disc. Cocoa and milk residue in the outlet is sticky and it is the usual reason a machine starts tasting stale. Drinks per pack: Read the figure off the current UK pack. Tassimo lines vary in how many discs make one drink, and the pack is the only reliable source. Caffeine note: This is a caffeinated drink, but the coffee content sits well below an espresso-based one. No per-disc figure is published in a form we can quote, so check the pack if it matters. Best with: Shortbread, digestive biscuits, toasted teacakes, or nothing at all after dinner. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. This is a milk chocolate drink, so it is not dairy-free and not suitable for vegans. Allergen note: Contains milk. Storage: Keep the discs in the box, cool, dry and out of direct sunlight. Chocolate takes on kitchen smells readily, so do not store them next to spices or a bin. Machine safety: The outlet and the drink are hot, and a chocolate drink holds its heat longer than a black coffee. Keep the machine out of reach of children. ## Product Questions What is a mocha, and how much coffee is actually in it?A mocha is chocolate and coffee in the same cup. In this one the Cadbury cocoa leads and the coffee sits underneath as a roasted undercurrent, so it drinks closer to a chocolate drink with backbone than to a coffee with cocoa added. Will these discs work in my Dolce Gusto or Nespresso machine?No. Tassimo discs carry a printed barcode the machine reads to set volume, temperature and flow before it brews, and that system is exclusive to Tassimo. Other pod machines will not take them. How many drinks does one pack make?Read the drinks-per-pack figure off the current UK pack. Tassimo lines differ in how many discs go into one drink, so the pod count on the front is not always the number of drinks you get. Can I make it less sweet?Not from the pack, but a pinch of flaked sea salt stirred in pulls the sweetness back noticeably, and a square of dark chocolate melted into the cup adds the bitter edge the Cadbury profile leaves out. Why does my mocha taste stale or sour?Almost always the machine rather than the disc. Cocoa and milk residue builds up in the outlet and goes stale quickly, so run a plain water rinse after every chocolate drink and descale on schedule. Should I stir it?Yes, once, straight after pouring. Cocoa solids settle within about a minute, and a mocha left unstirred is thin on top and gritty at the bottom. Why is the drink thinner than I expected?Usually the cup. A wide mug loses heat and reads thinner; a smaller cup gives the same disc less volume to fill, which concentrates it. Standing water in the tank also flattens chocolate drinks quickly. How should I store the discs?Leave them in the box, somewhere cool and dry, away from strong smells. Chocolate picks up kitchen odours readily, so a cupboard shelf is better than a worktop next to the spice rack. Can I make it iced?It works, with a caveat. Brew it into a jug, cool it, then shake hard over ice before pouring, because cocoa separates as it cools and an unshaken iced mocha is watery on top and sludgy at the bottom. Is there a published caffeine figure per disc?Not one we can quote. Per-disc caffeine is not published in a form we can verify, so read the current UK pack if you are counting. What we can say is that a mocha carries less coffee than an espresso-based drink of the same size. What does it go with?Shortbread, digestives and toasted teacakes, or nothing at all after dinner. Avoid pairing it with anything sweeter than itself; the drink is already carrying the sugar. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this product: Skimmed Milk Powder, Sugar, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder (13.5%), Soluble Coffee (7.6%), Fully Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Glucose Syrup, Flavouring (Milk), Salt, Stabiliser (E340), Sweetener (E960a), Anti-Caking Agent (E341).Typical values per 100ml, as publishedPer 100mlEnergy31 kcalFat0.41gof which saturates0.34gCarbohydrate4.9gof which sugars4.4gFibre0.62gProtein1.6gSalt0.16gIngredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsPack: Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g; caffeinated chocolate machine drink. Best before the date printed on the current UK pack.Characterising components shown; the full ingredient declaration, the quantitative breakdown and the nutrition panel are printed on the current UK pack and that is the only version to rely on.Sourcing & blend. Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g is made for the Tassimo system by Jacobs Douwe Egberts under licence to the Cadbury name, which is the British chocolate house most households in this country grew up on. The cocoa profile is the reason to buy it: sweet and milky rather than dark and bitter, so the coffee has to stay light to keep the balance. Each disc is sealed under foil and carries the printed barcode the machine reads before it pours.What's in Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g, and what isn't:In: a chocolate-led machine mocha, Cadbury cocoa with a light coffee backbone, sealed as single-serve discs.No jar, no kettle, no measuring: the ratio is fixed inside the disc and the machine sets the pour from the barcode.Not dairy-free and not vegan: this is a milk chocolate drink. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g is built in three layers, and a mocha makes them unusually easy to follow because the chocolate and the coffee arrive at different points in the mouthful rather than together.The outer layer is aromatic and it is entirely cocoa: warm milk chocolate lifting off the surface while the machine is still pouring. These are the lightest compounds in the cup and they carry no bitterness at all, which is why a Cadbury mocha smells like a chocolate drink and gives no warning that there is coffee in it. A cup left to stand for five minutes smells markedly flatter, because that aromatic layer is the first thing to go.The flavour spike is mid-palate and it is where the sugar and the milk fat do their work. The drink reads thick and sweet here, coating the tongue the way drinking chocolate does, and this is the stretch that decides whether you find the drink comforting or cloying. Stirring matters at this point: cocoa solids that have settled leave the top of the cup thin and the bottom heavy, and the mid-palate is where you notice it first.The base structure is the finish, and this is the coffee. A light roasted bitterness arrives after the sweetness has peaked, cuts through the milk fat and clears the palate for the next mouthful. It is the whole reason for adding coffee to chocolate, and it is why a mocha invites a second sip in a way that a plain hot chocolate does not.Getting it right in the cup. Use a wide mug rather than a tall glass, rinsed with hot water first, because chocolate drinks shed heat faster than black coffee. Let the machine finish its cycle before you move the mug, then stir once, straight away. A smaller cup gives a more concentrated drink from the same disc, which is the simplest way to make the cocoa read darker without adding anything. Left to stand, the drink separates at the edges and a skin forms, so this is a cup to pour and drink rather than to carry around.How water and temperature change it. Hard tap water flattens cocoa noticeably, pushing the drink towards a chalky, dusty finish, so a filter in the tank does more for a chocolate drink than it does for a coffee. Water that has stood overnight in the tank has the same effect only worse. Heat matters in the other direction too: served too hot, the sweetness dominates and the coffee backbone disappears, while a cup allowed to cool for two or three minutes reads more balanced and more chocolatey. Over ice the balance shifts again, because cold suppresses sweetness and lifts bitterness, so an iced mocha needs shaking hard rather than stirring and drinks drier than the hot version of the same disc. ## Recipe Ideas Tassimo Cadbury Mocha, 10 Pods 160g carries enough sugar and cocoa to work as an ingredient as well as a drink, which a plain coffee pod does not. Six builds below cover the standard mug, a salted grown-up version, an iced shake and a pudding sauce. Recipes, born here first The Standard Mocha How to make The Standard Mocha with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 3 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha Fresh cold water in the tank 1 wide mug Method Rinse a wide mug with hot water and tip it out. Insert the disc barcode down and let the machine finish its cycle. Stir once, straight away, before the cocoa solids settle. Drink it while it is still properly hot. What you'll end up with: A thick, sweet, recognisably Cadbury cup with just enough coffee underneath to keep it from cloying. Salted Grown-Up Mocha How to make Salted Grown-Up Mocha with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 4 min 1 small cup Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha A pinch of flaked sea salt 1 square dark chocolate Method Brew the disc into a smaller cup than usual so it arrives concentrated. Drop in one square of dark chocolate and stir until it melts. Finish with a pinch of flaked sea salt and stir once more. Drink straight away. What you'll end up with: The same drink with the sweetness pulled back and a bitter edge added, which is closer to a coffee-shop mocha. Iced Shaken Mocha How to make Iced Shaken Mocha with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 8 min + chill 1 tall glass Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha A full glass of ice 1 jar with a lid Method Brew the disc into a jar and let it cool on the side for ten minutes. Lid the jar and shake hard for fifteen seconds; cocoa separates as it cools and shaking is what brings it back. Pour over a tall glass of ice. Drink the same day. What you'll end up with: A drier, cleaner iced chocolate coffee, because cold suppresses the sugar and lets the roast through. Mocha Affogato How to make Mocha Affogato with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 4 min 2 servings Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha 2 scoops vanilla ice cream Grated dark chocolate Method Put one scoop of vanilla ice cream into each of two small glasses. Brew the disc and divide it between the two glasses while it is still hot. Grate a little dark chocolate over the top. Serve with a teaspoon and eat before it collapses. What you'll end up with: A chocolate affogato that needs no syrup and no espresso machine, ready in about four minutes. Mocha Pour-Over Pudding Sauce How to make Mocha Pour-Over Pudding Sauce with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 10 min 4 servings Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha 50ml double cream A pinch of flaked sea salt Method Brew the disc into a small pan. Simmer gently for five minutes to reduce it by about a third. Stir in 50ml of double cream and a pinch of salt, and take it off the heat. Pour warm over sponge pudding, profiteroles or ice cream. What you'll end up with: A quick mocha sauce with real coffee bitterness in it, which is what most shop-bought chocolate sauces lack. Bedtime-Adjacent Half Mocha How to make Bedtime-Adjacent Half Mocha with Tassimo Cadbury Mocha. 5 min 1 large mug Easy You'll need 1 disc Tassimo Cadbury Mocha 100ml hot milk 1 toasted teacake Method Brew the disc into a large mug. Top with 100ml of hot milk to lengthen it and soften the coffee. Stir once. Serve with a toasted teacake. What you'll end up with: A longer, milder version for late in the evening, though it is still a caffeinated drink rather than a nightcap. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._