Cadbury Dairy Milk Mixed Buttons Tester Review Thread NOW CLOSED

[AngelieMumsnet]

This thread is for the 200 Cadbury panel members who have been trying brand new Cadbury Dairy Milk Mixed Buttons and refining their sweet treat baking & decorating skills.

Here's what the team at Cadbury says about the product: "New Cadbury Dairy Milk Mixed Buttons are a combination of milk and white chocolate buttons. They’re perfect for sharing and having fun with your family on a night in. We’re really happy to give the Cadbury panel a chance to try Mixed Buttons – we can’t wait to read your recipes and see your creations”

Please upload your recipes and photos of your unusual and imaginative baked creations to this thread.

The three most fun and creative recipes (as judged by Cadbury) will each win a £100 John Lewis voucher and a family visit (4 tickets; consisting of at least one adult) to KidZania London.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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And thank you mumsnet and Cadbury - we had a fab time doing this (and scoffing the buttons - looking at you, DS!).

Does this mean that cadburys tastes so bad now that they are re-marketing themselves as cooking chocolate?

So, here goes! Our owl cake, surprisingly easy to make and little fingers can help with the decorating.

To review the buttons themselves, we have one criticism, (well two really if you include the bag not being full enough). We didn't think the white chocolate actually tasted of white chocolate, they just tasted 'sweet', if that makes sense. We've got some Thorntons white chocolate buttons left over from christmas (somehow) and there was a noticeable difference in taste. Anyway, our recipe...

For the cake:

3 medium eggs

150g dark chocolate chips

300g self-raising flour

300g caster sugar

9 tbsp cocoa powder

225ml sunflower oil

150ml soured cream

1 and a half tsp vanilla extract

100ml water

5g butter for greasing

For the topping:

Chocolate icing:

100g dark chocolate

100g white chocolate

140g unsalted butter

340g icing sugar

2 tbsp milk (optional)

Decoration:

White chocolate buttons

Sugar coated milk chocolate (Galaxy Minstrels work well)

Method:

To make the cake, heat the oven to 180℃ and grease two 21cm sandwich tins. Combine the eggs, self-raising flour, sugar, cocoa, oil, soured cream and water and beat until smooth. Fold in the chocolate chips. Divide between the tins and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Leave in the tin for 30 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Whilst waiting for the cakes to cool, beat the butter and half of the icing sugar together until smooth. Add one tablespoon of the remaining icing at a time and mix. Melt the white chocolate and dark chocolate separately by placing each one in two bowls over a simmering saucepan of water. Once the chocolate has melted, stir half of the icing mixture into the white chocolate, and the other half into the dark chocolate until smooth. If the icing is too thick, add a tablespoon of milk.
Once the cakes are cooled, use the dark chocolate icing to sandwich the cakes together. Cover the perimeter of the sandwich with the same icing and smooth over with a palette knife. Be careful to leave a tablespoon or so to use later on. With a separate knife, spread the white chocolate icing onto the top of the cake to form a basic owl shape. When satisfied with the shape, use the remaining dark chocolate icing to fill outside the outline of the owl shape so that the cake is now completely covered in frosting.
Press in white chocolate buttons to the white icing at a 45 degree angle to form the feathers. Use two Minstrels to form the owl’s eyes and push one directly into the cake to form the mouth.
Et voila! A lovely little owl cake that is so cute, you almost won’t want to eat it.

We made a chocolate traybake, decorated with the buttons!

Recipe from here without the drizzle topping.

Taste delicious and kids have stuck their own choice of buttons on each section, one them doesn't like white chocolate so works well.

Our button packs have just arrived so DD and I will be baking on Sunday

Ds (3yrs) and I made a Button Monster cake and with the teeny bit of leftover mixture I made an owl cupcake.

We used our standard cake recipe of: weigh the eggs with the shells on and use the same amount of flour/butter/sugar. All in one method, use a bit of milk if necessary to loosen the mixture. Bake for 25 mins ish.

We made blue buttercream icing, 150g butter, 300g icing sugar, blue food colouring and a splash of milk.

It's a very messy creation but it tastes delicious

We made the Cadbury chocolate cookies from the website - divine warm and hopefully pretty good cold! Will be making the sour cream chocolate cake a pp made earlier and will add that pic later. Thanks :)

So my dds (13 and 11) were inspired by the mix of flavours. They are pretty good bakers so I let them find the most appropriate recipes. They have named their creation 'Yin and Yang' - Balanced at the touch of a Button.

We made a rich white chocolate cake.
250 grams unsalted butter
120 grams chopped white choc (wrestled buttons off kids and used these)
300grams caster sugar
100ml milk
225 grams plain flour
100grams self raising flour
I tsp vanilla essence
2 med eggs

Oven 170 degrees
Combine sugar, butter, chocolate and milk in saucepan and stir over a low heat. DO NOT BOIL
Allow mix to cool.
Whisk in flour, and essence and egg to cooled mixture. Pour into greased tin. Bake for approx 1 hour. Should be a very rich, moist cake.

And then we made a chocolate sponge.

225 grams unsalted butter
225 grams caster sugar
4 medium eggs
175 grams self raising flour sieved
50 gram cocoa powder

Usual sponge method.

Then, we cut our two cakes into the Yin Yang shape. We filled the wholes with remaining choc buttons. The white choc cake we sprinkled with icing sugar. The chocolate sponge we smeared with the remainder of the milk chocolate buttons, melted down.

The result...lovely.

Chocolate lollies. Decorated with a valentines theme.

Split the chocolate into two bowls and melted them milk and white. Spooned the melted chocolate onto grease proof paper and popped a lolly stick on the chocolate.

Sprinkled with heart shaped, gold balls and freeze dried raspberry. Add splashes of chocolate on each lolly.

Quick simple and yummy!

Today we have made banana and chocolate button loaf.

Ingredients:

125g butter
150g caster sugar
1tsp vanilla extract
1 egg beaten
3 bananas mashed
100g chocolate buttons
190g self raising flour
60ml of milk.

Line a loaf tin and set the oven to 160 degrees

Heat the butter, sugar and vanilla until the sugar dissolves
Add the mashed up bananas
Add the egg
Then the flour
Mix well and add the chocolate buttons and the milk.

If you have some, a little Demerara sugar on top of the cake before baking gives a nice crunch.

Pour in to the loaf tin and bankers for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes our clean.

It might not be beautiful but it takes great!

We made chocolate overload fridge cake.

150g biscuits (we used gluten free as my daughter has Coeliac disease)
100g milk chocolate
100g dark chocolate
100g butter
150g golden syrup
75g milk and white buttons
Method
Use cling film to line a 20cm (8in) shallow, square-shaped tin. Leave extra cling film hanging over the sides.
Bash the biscuits into pieces using a rolling pin. (Put them in a plastic bag first so they don't go everywhere!)
Melt chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir occasionally.Remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the broken biscuits, and buttons
Spoon the mixture into the tin. Level the surface by pressing it down with a potato masher.
Leave to cool, then put the chocolate mixture in the fridge for 1-2 hours to set.

Decorated by my little boy with extra buttons :-)

We went with a Star Wars theme since with white and milk chocolate together we have the light side and the dark side

The recipe is for a milk and white chocolate zebra cake:

4 large free-range eggs
250g/9oz golden caster sugar
100ml/3½fl oz milk
250ml/9fl oz sunflower oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
475g/1lb 1oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
25g/1oz cocoa powder
1 115g bag of Cadbury's mixed buttons

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease a 23cm/9in cake tin.
Put the eggs and sugar into a large bowl with the milk, oil, vanilla extract and 175g/6oz of the flour. Whisk until smooth.

Separate the Cadbury's buttons into milk and white, and crumble them up a bit.

Pour half of the mixture into a separate bowl and stir in ½ tsp baking powder and 175g/6oz flour and add the white half of your crushed Cadbury's buttons. In the other bowl, mix the cocoa, 125g/5oz flour and ½ tsp baking powder with the milk buttons.

Spoon two tablespoons of the white mixture into the centre of the cake tin. Straight away spoon two tablespoons of the chocolate mixture on top. Continue doing this until all the mixture has been used – you will end up with lots of alternate rings of mixture in the tin.

Cook for 40-50 minutes, until the cake is cooked through – a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean.

For the chocolate buttercream:

85g butter
175g icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon milk

Mix butter and icing sugar well until smooth.
Add in cocoa powder and milk and mix again until smooth.
Spread over cake

Our cake was not quite as stripy as it should have been, as over-enthusiastic DS wanted to give the mixture a "good mix" after it had been carefully layered!

We then decorated with the other bag of buttons. If you squint a bit, you'll see that is, in fact, a stormtrooper

I didn't get picked for this either, when I was originally picked I didn't realise we would then have to apply for various product tests.

So far there has been only one to apply for which I did, and wasn't chosen, I have to be honest I am disappointed with it.

We had fun making these and even more fun eating them

Slow cooker chocolate fudge
2 x bags dairy milk mixed buttons
170g dairy milk chocolate
1x tin of condensed milk (400g)
50g sifted icing sugar

Melt the condensed milk, dairy milk Choc and dairy milk buttons in the slow cooker on low.
When melted stir in the sifted icing sugar really well.
Leave on low - lid off for 80 mins returning every 10 min give it a very good stir
Transfer to grease proof paper into the shapes that you want. After leaving to set for an hour remove from molds and add button decorations.
Leave them to set in the fridge over night

We made Fish biscuits and dotty biscuits with our buttons :)

Ingredients:
500g plain flour
140g icing sugar + 225g icing sugar for decorations
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
250g unsalted softened butter
4 table spoons of milk
icing pens to decorate
Cadbury dairy milk mixed buttons

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 160C / Gas 2 1/2
• Cream together the butter and sugar
• Mix the flour in
• Add in the vanilla extract and milk a little at a time until the mixture sticks together
• Take some baking paper and flour the surface, roll the mixture out onto the floured baking paper to about 5mm thick
• Cut your shapes out ( we didnt have a fish cutter so we used aluminum to make the shape and a blunt knife to cut the fish shapes out by hand :) )
• Place on a baking tray on some baking paper and bake in the pre heated oven for 15 minutes
• Place on a wire rack to cool and harden

For the fish:

• Once completely cooled, mix up 225g icing sugar with 3 tablespoons of water
• Cover the biscuits with the icing, while the icing is still wet add the fish "scale" Cadbury buttons, leave to set
• Decorate the fish with the icing
• Enjoy!

For the dotty biscuits:

• Separate the white and milk chocolate buttons
• Heat a pan with boiling water and add a glass bowl to the top, melt the white buttons in the bowl
• Spread the melted white chocolate on the biscuits
• Add the milk chocolate buttons while the white chocolate is still wet
• Leave to set in the fridge ( we left ours over night)
• Enjoy!

We had so much fun making (and eating!!!) these so thank you for the opportunity to test these yummy buttons :)

A couple more pics for my post :)

I got selected to do the Cadbury panel thing, why am I not receiving any chocolate to test??!!

We made egg-free triple-chocolate animal muffins :)

For the muffins:
4oz caster sugar
5oz butter
6oz self-raising flour
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
6/7 tablespoons milk
Handful of chocolate chips

For the icing:
85g butter
175g icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon milk
Cadburys buttons to decorate!

(Please excuse the mix of metric and imperial weights, they are two separate recipes and I'm no good at converting!)

For the muffins, cream the caster sugar and butter together then add the flour and cocoa powder and milk, and mix well (you may need to add a little more milk if it's a bit dry) til you get a smooth mix. Then stir in a handful of chocolate chips.

Spoon into six muffin cases and bake at 170 degrees for 30 mins then leave to cool.

For the icing, cream the butter and icing sugar then add the cocoa powder and milk. Pipe evenly onto the muffins then decorate with the Buttons - we made animals!

We had loads of fun making these and they were delicious :)

I was going to get a bit more creative bit I have been poorly and my son was desperate to get baking, so I went simple and fun with this great recipe where my three year old did most of the mixing, measuring and making!

We made cookies using the buttons by
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup self raising flour
3/4 cup plain flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 bag mixed chocolate buttons

Preheat oven to 160C

1. Melt butter then place in mixing bowl and leave to cool a little
2. Mix in brown and caster sugar until more like a smooth paste.
3. Whisk egg in separate bowl, add vanilla essence and then stir into main bowl.
4. Sieve flours and baking powder into separate bowl then gradually add to main mixture stirring lots.
5. Add chocolate buttons
6. Dollop onto lined baking tray in tablespoon size lumps, don't put too close together.
7. Bake at 160 for about 15 minutes till golden
8. Leave to cool on baking tray for a couple of minutes before transferring into wire rack to cool.

This was so fun to do and they are simply delicious! They also encouraged my three year old to try the White chocolate which he isn't as keen on.

We love the packaging with the noughts and crosses it certainly got my 5 year olds attention. These felt like a great family treat that we all enjoyed.

Gruffalo inspired owl cakes

My son wanted to make owls from the gruffalo book- so here they are (mine and his😜)
Recipe:
130g self raising flour
130g butter
130g caster sugar
50g green and black cocoa powder
1 tea spoon vanilla essence
4 tablespoons milk
2 eggs
Nutella for topping the cakes

1. beat sugar and butter.

2. add whisked eggs and mix.

3. sieve in half the flour.

4. add milk.

5. add the rest of the flour and cocoa powder and mix thoroughly.

6. decant into cake cases and bake for 20 mins on 190* in the oven.

7. allow to cool then use top with a scrape of Nutella to act as a glue and then use the buttons to decorate, overlapping to look owl like!!!!!

8. chop a fudge into a nose shape.

Tadah.... Owl cakes.

flumplet once you're on the panel you still have to apply for the different tests/activities. I had an email telling me about this product test and giving me the opportunity to apply. My assumption was that everyone on the panel had the same email but maybe not.

I'm loving reading all the different recipes - deffo going to give some of them a try - esp with Easter coming up we always have tonnes of choccy left over lol

chili chocolate cookies by DS (12)

40gr milk buttons
1/2 tsp chili flakes
50g caster sugar
100gr plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
70gr unsalted butter
50gr soft dark brown sugar
2tbsp holden syrup

Decoration
30gr white buttons

Grind chili flakes in pestle mortar with a pinch of sugar

Put all ingredients, other then chocolate, in mixer and mix well. Melt choc buttons in microwave and add to mixture together with chili powder. Mix well abd then make 15 small balls, divide over 3 trays and place in fridge or/and freezer.

Heat oven 170c and bake the chilled press then slightly before placing in oven, biscuits for 15 minutes.

Cool on tray for 5 minutes before placing them on a rack to cool completely.

Melt white buttons and drizzle all over biscuits of back of a spoon.

Definately have a kick! Lunchbox treat to share according to DS....

Thanks Cadbury's for our bags of fun!
Leo (aged 6) & I (aged older!) made a chocolate button stuffed Paco the Panda cake! We managed to get chocolate everywhere but it was so worth it! He was a most delicious bear!

Here's what you need to make Paco!

2 x 8" (greased & floured) round cake tins, 2 x small silicon heart shaped cake moulds

Ingredients for the cake:
225g soft butter
225g caster sugar
200g self raising flour
25g cocoa powder
2tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
1 bag Cadbury's mixed Buttons
2-4 tablespoons whole milk

You can make this in a food processor but as mine is at the back of an overstuffed cupboard we just used a big mixing bowl!

Put everything into the bowl except the buttons & the milk & get mixing!

When your mixture is nice & smooth add some milk until you get a soft dropping consistency.
Now add your Cadbury's mixed buttons!

Divide the mixture between your cake tins & moulds & put in the centre of a preheated 180C oven.

Bake for 25 mins or until the cake tops are springy to touch.
Turn the sponges out onto wire racks to cool.

Ingredients for the buttercream icing:
140g soft butter
280g icing sugar
tsp vanilla

Mix all of the above together in a bowl until smooth, you can add some milk if the mixture is too stiff.
We also put a little aside and added some cocoa powder to make chocolate buttercream to cover Paco's ears.

When the cakes are cool, spread icing over your bottom sponge and sandwich together with the other one. Slather vanilla buttercream all over the whole cake.
Carve your heart cakes into panda ear shapes and spread with chocolate buttercream! Place them onto the top of the cake.

Now decorate with the remaining bag of buttons, trying not to eat them all!

Say hello to Paco the Panda!
Now you can eat him up, yum yum!
Enjoy!

thank you for picking us, made fairy cakes basic receipe,out icing on top in a white colour then dc decorated in a circle using the white and milk buttons,in a circle few eaten on the way , taste lovely.our kitchen looked like a bomb site with flour etc, sorry terrible at photos, the dcs loved the task and we all enjoyed the left over buttons and the tasty fairy cakes.wondering how much a bag will be when on sale a good idea to mix types up . sorry about no photos xx