Christmas Chocolate Treats from Cadbury #freethejoy

Cadbury's Festive Chocolate

From chocolate tree decorations to chocolate Santas to boxes of treats to bags of Snow Bites, Cadbury have a range of festive confectionery that covers it all. All with the trademark purple colour and golden Cadbury logo, Cadbury products have been a quintessential part of Christmas for years.

The tree decorations are a Christmas must-have for me. Ever since my eldest was a little boy, hanging the chocolate decorations on the tree has become one of our traditions. Little Joe would seek out the foil wrapped treats and sneak the chocolate shapes from off the tree whenever he got a chance, leaving the strung foil wrapper behind as evidence of his choccie heist. Now Joe's son, my grandson Ted, is the chocolate tree decoration fiend, so I'll make sure that there are plenty of chocolates for him to find when he visits over Christmas.

The selection boxes, tubes of choclate and chocolate Santas make great stocking fillers or tree presents for all the family and are ideal gifts for the kids' school friends.

Cadbury Hot Chocolate

Nothing beats a lovely, warming hot chocolate on a cold winter's day - it's the ultimate in comfort. Cadbury Hot Chocolate delivers a mug full of joy by simply adding three heaped teaspoons of the chocolatey powder to a cup of hot milk. If you have a coffee machine with a steam arm, you can use it to make some fresh, frothy, foamy, fancy hot chocolate, just like they do in coffee shops.

Adding flavoured syrups and topping with squirty cream, marshmallows, sprinkles or flakes, creates some incredibly indulgent festive, hot drinks. You can experiment with flavours and presentation to create your perfect Christmas Cadbury Hot Chocolate concoction.

As the Cadbury Drinking Chocolate does not contain milk, it is also ideal for anyone who avoids dairy products, by making it using soya, almond or coconut milk. In fact, using coconut milk adds an exotic twist to your hot chocolate, which is quite delicious.

Here is a recipe for a tasty festive twist on a classic hot chocolate using the barista method with a steam arm (but you can just as easily make it by adding the ingredients to hot milk and whisking together):

Minty Hot Chocolate

3 heaped teaspoons of Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate
200ml cold semi skimmed milk
20ml mint syrup

Mix together in a stainless steel jug, then heat and foam with a steam arm to approximately 70 degrees centigrade. Garnish with a sprig of mint for a fancy finish!


Look out for a Cadbury Advent surprise in a town near you

Be sure to follow the #Cadvent hashtag on Twitter or the Cadbury UK Facebook page to keep up to date with the Cadbury advent calendar truck that are appearing around the country bringing festive cheer to the people of Britain. Towns up and down the country such as Aylesbury, Peterborough and Liverpool have already enjoyed the Cadbury Christmas treatment as the advent calendar opened its festive doors revealing a special surprise treat for the locals. Will it come to a town near you?

It's Chips Ahoy! with Cadbury!

Q: What happens when the world's most popular US cookie brand Chips Ahoy! meets deliciously smooth and creamy Cadbury Dairy Milk?  

A: You get the latest chocolate bar creation from Cadbury!

The Cadbury Dairy Milk Chips Ahoy! sees smooth Dairy Milk chocolate smothering a biscuit flavoured filling, studded with cheeky chunks of choc chip cookie.  It joins the Cadbury Dairy Milk Oreo bar as the latest chocolate and biscuit hybrid, bringing together some of the nation's most indulgent treats. in one handy snack.

I was expecting the Cadbury Dairy Milk Chips Ahoy! bar to have a crunchy texture akin to a cookie, but the filling is actually quite smooth and creamy. It wasn't what I was expecting at all but Kizzy and Freddy enjoyed it and loved the sweet, creamy filling.

The 120g bar is £1.42 RRP and  can be found in supermarkets and good retailers now.

Just imagine a sculpture made out of Cadbury Chocolate...

What brings joy to your life?  A pair of Jimmy Choo shoes?  A favourite book? Your pet chihuahua? Thoughts of Thierry Henri's torso?  Well - whatever it is that brings you joy could now be transformed into a chocolate sculpture thanks to an exciting new promotion from Cadbury.

Promotional bars of chocolate, including Dairy Milk, Crunchies and Twirls, are available in stores now and you have a 1 in 8 chance of winning a chocolatey treat. Thirty lucky people will win a beautifully hand crafted chocolate sculpture made by renowned food artist Prudence Staite.  Imagine sinking your teeth into your favourite thing in chocolate form!

In addition to this, the lucky winners will also win a joyful surprise valued at £5000 to fulfill their most joyous dreams. So if a shiny pair of shoes makes you happy, you could receive a pair made from chocolate and then jet off to Milan to buy a pair of real ones too!

This joyous promotion will be bringing happiness to some very fortunate folk.  Personally, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for winning Thierry Henri's torso sculpted out of Cadbury chocolate... but good luck for whatever you wish for too!

Find out more at www.facebook.com/CadburyUK

Cadbury Dairy Milk Launches Joyville Made

Customise Cadbury Dairy Milk bars and send them to your friends and family

I love personalised gifts.  There is something so special about seeing your own name, a personal message or photograph emblazoned on a gift that thrills me much more than it should!  It transcends an ordinary gift into something that often generates far more excitement than the actual gift itself!   I'm not sure if it's because it takes a lot of thought from the gift giver, or simply because I'm a narcissist!

Almost everyone enjoys receiving chocolate as a gift.  Now, thanks to Joyville Made, you can personalise Cadbury choccie bars too!  Cadbury have just launched Joyville Made, which is an innovative online experience where you can customise two different sizes of Cadbury Dairy Milk, add a name or message on the front of the wrapper, and add a message to the back of the wrapper.  However, the customisation doesn’t stop with the packaging.  If anyone wants to make the present even better, they can add a unique web card, which displays more photos from Facebook and videos, all included in the cost of a bar.

Check out these screenshots for more details:

Go to www.joyvillemade.com

Choose the size bar you want to customize.

Use the online tools to add text and pics.

Create a unique webcard (the URL is included on the packaging)

Joyville Made allows us to put our own spin on this popular brand by creating deliciously unique gifts to send to friends and family.  I was over the moon to receive my very own 200g customised Cadbury Dairy Milk bar through the post.  The front had my name on it and the back included a photograph from Facebook and a link to my very own unique webcard.  When I opened the box I actually squealed a little bit, seeing my name on the iconic packaging. 

Anyone for a Wendy Bar?

Include a memorable photo on the back!

These bars would be great for Valentine's Day, birthdays or for any occasion. Or simply to let someone know that you are thinking of them.  It's a great and innovative idea from Cadbury.

Find out more at www.joyvillemade.com