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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Harriet the hedgehog cake designed by Abbie aged 8. First make 2 choc sponge cakes 225g butter,225g caster sugar, 4eggs 100g Sr. flour. Cook for 20 mins 180, leave to cool. Sandwich cakes together with choc buttercream. Cut either side to make rounded top of hedgehog and stick on with buttercream. Then cut triangle shapes off front to make nose shape. You can eat the leftover shapes! Cover with choc buttercream and place chocolate buttons cut in half on body for spikes. Use a glacé cherry for a nose and buttons for eyes. Thanks cadburys we had a lot of fun- this is the first cake we have made together.

These were so yummy! We made marbled fairy cakes.. We did the normal 4,4,4,2 recipe, divided it into two and then added a large serving of melted buttons, milk in one half and milk in the other. Mixed them up, cooked for 12min and then decorated with melted chocolate buttons. The kids made these themselves and had a great time. Thank you

I'll try pics first because it keeps freezing and I don't want to type the recipe out again!

I made a proper bad job of baking and assembling this lovely sour cream chocolate cake but it tastes fantastic! I added some plain chocolate into the icing but other than that it's just nigella's old fashioned chocolate cake beautifully decorated with chocolate buttons by ds3!

We have had such fun! Thank you Mumsnet - my 4 year old announced that today was the best day ever. I really don't bake enough with her and this has prompted me to do more.

So our efforts may not be world class but we had so much fun, they taste brilliant (and I've a floor to mop after the cloud of cocoa powder we created!)

Our recipe:

Put 200g of plain flour, 40g of Bourneville cocoa powder, 1 tsp of baking powder and 80g of butter in a bowl and whisk.

Whisk 240ml of milk, 2 eggs and 1/2tsp of vanilla extract and then add into the other mixture whilst mixing.

Bake for 25 mins in a 170c oven.

We then added chocolate buttercream (110g of butter, 170g of icing sugar, 55g of cocoa powder and 2 tbsp of milk) to the top and decorated with the buttons to make 'hedgehogs'.

These are mine and the kids Domino Biscuits. We used this recipe:
200g plain flour
130g caster sugar
100g butter
1 egg

Squashed it all together to make a dough, rolled it out and cut into (very rustic!!!) rectangles.
Baked for 14 mins at 170 degrees.
Melted the milk choc buttons and spread them on top then decorated with the white buttons.

Would have worked better if I had a rectangular cutter (or the patience to make them a uniform size) but they're tasty and educational!!

This is my daughter's, Nadia, secret recipes. She made a special chocolate hedgehog.

Ingredients:

200g caster sugar
115g butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
200g or self raising flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
120ml of milk
2 strawberries
1 apple
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

A tub of chocolate icing

Mix the sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, add the flour, the baking powder and milk. Add also the grated strawberries and the grated apple and finally the cocoa powder.

Cook the cake for 35 minutes at 180 C.

Once cooled down cover the cake with chocolate icing and the chocolate buttons in a shape of an hedgehog.

The cake is delicious and it tastes really light and moist.

Some of these are amazing! Although my 2 dc are 11 & 12 they did not pass up the chance of baking (and eating a load of divine buttons!) we did Cadburys version of Millie's cookies

Ingrediants

125g softened butter
100g light brown soft sugar
125g caster sugar
1 egg lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
225g self raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
Tons of cadburys buttons

Method

Preheat oven to 180 deg, gas mark 4

Cream butter and sugars, combine in the egg & vanilla

Sift in the flour and salt, then the buttons

Roll into walnut size balls

Place on grease proof paper. If you want the soft chewy cookie then only leave in for 7 minutes or 10 if you like them crunchy.

We have made these many times with regular choc chips but they were extra yummy with the buttons.

I had the same domino idea as a previous poster but my ds just wanted to make choc fairy cakes. I decided to step back and let him get on with it. The fairy cakes were made using the 'weigh the eggs and do equal amounts for rest of ingredients' method. Although the I'm not his measuring was entirely accurate. He chucked the milk choc buttons into the cake mix and save a few to decorate after with the White choc ones.

He loved having a mix of buttons in one packet, however I wasn't impressed with that taste of the white buttons. Very bland.

They are far from the most creative or attractive cakes but it's been a lovely after noon activity

Kids easy fun recipes. Using a mug/cup method. One cup of mini marshmallows, one cup of chocolate balls or broken up dairy milk chocolates ( we had used chocolate left over from Christmas) half cup of butter/margarine. Melt chocolate and butter/margarine in microwave 30 seconds stir and microwave for additional 20/30 seconds. Add marshmallows and stir mixture well. Add two cups of rice crispies and again stir well until all rice crispies are covered in the mixture. Divide into silicone reusable cake cases, leave to cool in fridge for 15 minutes. Decorate with Cadburys Dairy Milk mixed Chocolate buttons and replace in fridge for 10 minutes. Best eaten on the day they are made. Tasty treats

Mug/cup kids fun recipes x

Valentines themed- jelly, squirty cream and Cadburys Dairy Milk mixed chocolate buttons. Fun and easy kids recipes

Kids fun quick easy recipes - buy a ready-made pavola base. Let your little ones be creative using squirty cream to cover the base layer upon layer. Gently place sliced strawberries onto cream and decorate using Cadburys Dairy Milk mixed Chocolate buttons. Serve with fresh pouring cream.

Chocolate brownies - cup method, 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, half cup of cocoa powder. Mix well add 2 table spoons water and half cup melted butter/margarine. Divide mixture into cases and add Cadburys Dairy Milk mixed Chocolate buttons and put in oven gas mark 1.80 for 15-18 mins depending on your oven. Allow to cool and eat with warm custard or alone.

We made Chocolate French Toast. DD2 helped (the rest just wanted to eat ) and enjoyed mixing and dipping and melting and drizzling. Verdict from all of us was that it was delicious (very rare in this house for everyone to like the same thing at the same time!) Even doubting DH ate his words and loved it.

Ingredients:

To make enough for 6 people (adjust amounts if less required)

4 tsp cocoa powder
2 tsp granulated sugar
400ml milk
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
12 slices of bread (crusts removed)
Melted milk chocolate (as much as want!) or chocolate spread if prefer.
Cadbury Dairy Milk Mixed Buttons

Oil/butter for frying with.

Method:

Mix the cocoa and sugar together in a bowl wide enough for the bread to sit in once ready. Add a small amount of the milk and whisk to a paste. Add the remainder of the milk and vanilla essence and whisk until smooth.

Whisk eggs in separate bowl and then add to the milk mixture.

Take 2 slices of bread, melt some milk chocolate (we used the milk chocolate buttons) and then spread on one slice of bread. You can use chocolate spread here instead if prefer. Put second slice of bread on top.

Dip into mixture in bowl until bread well covered and then place into preheated frying pan.

Fry on medium to low heat. Flip over after 5-6 mins and cook other side. Ensure cooked all the way through and then remove from pan.

Cut in half, drizzle melted white and milk chocolate Cadbury buttons and then sprinkle with whole buttons as well.

Eat!

I love coming back to this thread. So many good ideas to make things a bit different. We were done but then we had some left over frosting and buttons and its rainy and we'd all done our homework (not me, but I'm waiting for them all to be asleep!)

Little one is 2.5 so our recipe was nice and simple.

Melt the buttons with a tiny bit of milk. Add some cornflakes and mix until covered. Put into little cases and decorate with some more buttons.

They tasted lovely and the little one was impressed.

Thank you for allowing us to take part in this trial....me and my daughter had fun making chocolate muffins.

Ingredients
•250g self raising flour
•25g cocoa powder
•2tsp baking powder
•175g sugar
•175ml milk
•2 large eggs
•100ml mild olive oil
•75g chocolate buttons
•1-2tsp vanilla extract

Method we used

Preheat the oven to 170ºC (375ºF, gas mark 5).
Spoon the mixture into prepared cases. We baked for approximately 20 minutes or until they looked golden and springy to the touch.

www.mumsnet.com/food/recipe/982-Easy-emergency-biscuits

We used up all our left over frosting and buttons making flowers. This task has really brought out the inner Willy Wonka in me the children.
We used the mumsnet easy biscuits recipe, cut rounds and smaller rounds out of them (see picture). Then we sandwiched them together with buttons sticking out for petals and used sweetie laces for the centres. One of them is a variation on this with button middle and lace round the edge.

Valentine Cheesecake

We love the new Buttons and thought what better to compliment them then a pud that wasn't too sweet. And with Valentines on the way.....

No bake cheesecake recipe

For the base
100 grams unsalted butter
225 grams digestive biscuits (crushed)
1 ½ tablespoons brown sugar

melt the butter and mix the above, line in a tin and chill

For the filling
100 grams cream cheese (full fat)
50 grams caster sugar
100 grams creme fraiche
3 tablespoons vanilla extract

Mix the above and add to the chilled base, return to fridge.

This cheesecake was delicious and the buttons gave it the sweetness, sadly it's now all gone.......

Place marking to upload mine tomorrow! Some incredible ones so far. Definitely going to try some of them out.

As a non-tester, my impression of this thread is that most people have used the buttons to decorate rather than cook with. Is that because of the previous mumsnet threads that have slated modern Cadbury's chocolate for being weirdly made, not melting properly or tasting as it should?

Domino cake

Cake ingredients
285g plain flour
3 tablespoons of cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda and 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
225g caster sugar
3 eggs
225 ml oil - rapeseed or sunflower
225 ml milk
3 tablespoons of golden syrup

Icing ingredients
85g butter
6 tablespoons of cocoa
225g icing sugar
4 tablespoons milk

1. Heat the oven to 170c. Lightly grease an 8 or 9 inch cake tin and line the bottom
2. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, bicarb, baking powder and caster sugar in a large mixing bowl.
3. Break the eggs into a separate bowl and beat with the milk, oil and golden syrup.
4. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, then slowly add the wet ingredients, gradually mixing everything together until you have a smooth batter. The mixture will appear runnier than some mixtures.
5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the middle of the tin for 40 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
6. Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then move to a wire rack to cool. Remove the lining paper once cooled.
7. Slice off the domed top of the cake to leave a flat square. (I cut the domed half in two and used the icing to make a slightly mis-shaped sandwich cake).
8. To make the icing, melt the butter in a saucepan, then remove from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, then add it to the pan along with the milk. Stir well with a small whisk until smooth.
9. Cut the square cake into two rectangles and cover both rectangles with the icing. Use a palette knife to smooth the icing - it sets pretty quickly so you need to move fast.

10. Add some white chocolate buttons to make the dots on the dominoes.

Thank you Mumsnet and Cadbury for the buttons. We used more to decorate the other part of our cake and inspired by others on this thread plan to make some flower-decorated cupcakes next week

Starlight that's cute - we thought about doing it, it looks nice.
long we used them to decorate because otherwise it needn't be buttons ifyswim? Any melted chocolate would do.

Thanks Noeuf - DD is only five but a keen baker so I had to think of something simple she could help with. I agree we used the buttons as decoration for the same reason.