Cadbury's Shortcake

There's been a lot of cold and flu around at the moment as there always is around this time of year (CHRISTMAS!! - Sorry I'm a bit excited!) and I have been unfortunate enough to get it. So, when I'm feeling under the weather, there's nothing better than a warm cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate with biscuits to dunk! So when I'd made my cup of tea I opened the biscuit tin to discover an opened packet of these Cadbury's shortcake biscuits, I was quite excited I'm quite a fan of shortcake and I've always loved the classic Cadbury's chocolate covered biscuits so I thought theses would be the perfect combination but I was mistaken... The 'shortcake' ...  Read the complete review

On paper, a cross between shortcake biscuit and Cadbury's chocolate sounds like a delicious prospect - but is it? I saw 'Cadbury's Chocolate Shortcake' in an offer at the corner shop, which allowed you to purchase two 300g packets for £2. Good value I thought, and having never tried them before, I decided to give the tasty looking treats a go. Ingredients - - - - - - - - Cadbury's Shortcake biscuits contain; Wheat Flour, Milk Chocolate (24%) Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Dried Skimmed Milk, Milk Fat, Dried Whey, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)), Vegetable Fat, Sugar, Dried Whey, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Salt, and ...  Read the complete review

Shortcake biscuits, the round ones with the pretty imprint, are a staple of many generic biscuit selection boxes and tubs, but I'd not seen these ones until I was in my local B&Ms and they were selling them in packs of 2 biscuits for 10p, with an unexpectedly generous best before date (6 months hence). I love biscuits but don't keep them in the house normally as I can't stop at just a couple, so the idea of a snack pack, with the serving size contained for me, appealed, as did not having to commit to a whole bag of snack packs (which is, essentially, no less tempting that a single packet of biscuits, but with much more unnecessary packaging). Also appealing was the ...  Read the complete review