Philadelphia and Cadbury team up to create SA made Dairy Milk Marble Cream Cheese

Chocolate lovers campaigned for the return of a cult Cadbury flavour – now a Mount Gambier factory has served up a product they did not even know they wanted.

For the past nine months a South Australian factory has been cooking up a sweet secret which will soon launch in supermarkets across the nation and New Zealand.

Mondelez International's Suttontown factory on the outskirts of Mount Gambier has been working overtime to create a product inspired by the return of Cadbury’s cult Marble block.

Blending its Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate, the business has recreated the fan favourite flavour right down to the marbling effect.

Michael Dean, Adam Borchers, Drew Ripper and Bob White introduce Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cadbury Marble made at Mondelez International's Suttontown factory on the outskirts of Mount Gambier. Picture: Jessica Ball

Business development and engineering manager Adam Borchers said producing the limited edition Cadbury Dairy Milk Marble Philadelphia Cream Cheese was huge innovation for the factory and creating future opportunities.

“It’s been excellent to not just maintain business but again, open up new innovations,” Mr Borchers said.

“Our research and development department have been helping us to develop a product that mimics the Cadbury Marble in the flavour and also the visual appearance.

“We’ve done a lot of work in the factory over that time, including a few trials to get the final visual effects that we were after, that’s something we’ve never done in the factory before.”

Created using 100 per cent SA milk in the cream cheese component and 16.5 tonnes of chocolate from Tasmania and Melbourne, Mr Borchers said the product could be used as a spread on bread, pancakes, to make cheesecakes, brownies, go between yoyos or enjoyed straight out of the tub.

Cadbury Marble-inspired Philadelphia Cream Cheese is made at Mondelez International's Suttontown factory on the outskirts of Mount Gambier. Picture: Mondelez International

The launch follows the creation of a limited edition Caramilk version at the factory in 2019, repeated in 2020 and about to become a permanent fixture on supermarket shelves in the next few months.

“Consumers love it and it’s very simple to make a cheesecake out of the Caramilk tub,” Mr Borchers said.

“Marble is the second product that we’ve been able to leverage off the Cadbury brand and there may be more to come.

“If it has the same buzz as the first Caramilk run … I’d say get in very quickly.”

Product maker Bob White was responsible for creating the recipe and said it was process of trial and error.

“The first time it was a bit thick, the second time it was getting there, third time we got it right,” Mr White said.

“It’s always good to do something different and this is something else to add to the things that we do here.”

Line leader Drew Ripper was set up the machinery and said tough job getting the correct ratio of cream cheese to chocolate and create the marble effect and but these innovative ideas were keeping people in jobs.