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marshmallow to tru e gooey centres, available in dark, milk and . Creme Egg is that it is such Peanut butter and cream eggs goodness a signal of the arrival of the are the most popular, says market- season. It’s a signal that spring is ing co-ordinator Alysia Sluga, but the may be Willy Wonka’s greatest gift around the corner,” says Lefl er. Continental Crisp Egg, introduced a JENNIFER FONG to mankind, and the more you can Each year, Cadbury makes 100 mil- few seasons ago, is slowly making Journal Features Writer collect, the better. lion Creme Eggs, which are only sold its way to the top with its unique Rating Easter’s EDMONTON Easter “is a very important sea- between New Year’s Day and Easter. almond centre. son for us,” says Michelle Lefler, “That’s really part of the magic of the With so many fi llings and variet- best sweet They say you shouldn’t put all your corporate a airs manager at Kraft Cadbury Creme Egg.” ies available, chocolate eggs clearly eggs in one basket. Canada. Kraft is the parent company Cadbury, however, isn’t the only aren’t so brown and white. Those on treats This advice, however, is best ig- of Cadbury , which makes Canada’s company bringing sweet, rotund the hunt, however, have no time to nored over Easter — when you top Easter treat, the Creme Egg, a joy to Canadians. waste on bad eggs. Here, then, is a should be loading up with the big- product that outsells even the cutest Vancouver-based Purdy’s Choco- fi eld guide to fi ve of the most popu- gest basket you can fi nd. cocoa chicks and bunnies. lates offers 22 varieties of Easter lar treats you’ll find up the Easter Chocolate eggs, after all, “What’s so delightful about the eggs, featuring everything from Bunny’s sleeve.

EGG DESCRIPTION APPEALS TO TRIVIA VERDICT CREAM YOLK Slurpy and Those who like their eggs as authentic According to Cadbury.com , most Eating yolk eggs is a messy affair that fondant cream goo, as possible. people eat Creme Eggs by biting off will leave you with both sticky ngers coloured to look like a the top, licking out the lling, then eat- and a toothache. Believers, however, sunny side up egg, in a ing the chocolate. One in ve people love them so much, recipes abound chocolate shell. It’s made bites straight through. Sixteen per online with ways to make them even by a variety of chocolatiers, cent scoop out the insides with their more of a cardiac risk. Creative chefs but Cadbury’s Creme Egg, nger. have used them in brownies, muf ns, PHOTOS: GREG SOUTHAM, THE JOURNAL launched in 1971, is famous cupcakes, tarts, crème brûlée and our around the world. personal favourite, deep-fried Creme Eggs . Say what you will, but the yolk egg is an icon.

MARSHMALLOW A blessed union between two of Those who Purdy’s Mallo Egg recipe If you’re the type of person who enjoys Easter’s most iconic treats: eggs and plan on go- dates back to 1908, says your strawberries and cream at a Peeps , chick-shaped marshmallow ing camping head chocolatier Gary 1:9 ratio of berries to whip, then the candies that have been making Good over the Easter Mitchell. The marshmallow is Mallo Egg is for you. Just watch out for Fridays especially good since the long weekend. handmade and coated thinly marshmallow moustaches. 1950s. The marshmallow egg now We bet these would make with milk or dark chocolate. produced by most chocolatiers is lled some ridiculous s’mores. with a spongy whipped  uff. CANDY-COATED Solid chocolate in a thin crispy shell Those who want a little crunch with First made in Canada in 1989, says I’ll have just one. Or maybe another. that cracks just like a real egg. Of their chocolate. Le er. Available in yellow, green, pink, They’re so tiny. A couple more wouldn’t this variety, Cadbury’s are and blue, 150,000 mini eggs can hurt. Beware, chocoholics: These renowned and available in a number be produced in an hour at Cadbury babies are small, but addictive. of varieties, including micro (extra- Canada’s factory in Toronto. More than small), dark chocolate, and popping, 500 million mini eggs are sold during which is embedded with candy that the Easter season. pops in your mouth. (Pop Rocks and chocolate? Why didn’t anyone think of this earlier?) Mini Eggs were available only during the Easter season until two years ago, when someone in the Cadbury company decided to do us all a favour and make mini-eggs available year round in Canada.

KINDER SURPRISE Who says you can’t play with Those who want to have their toy and More than 8,000 different toys have Most you eat leave you your food? Inside the creamy eat the chocolate, too. made it into Kinder Surprise eggs, but only with guilt. Kinder Surprise leaves chocolate shell of each Kind- poor American children have never you with guilt and a collectible toy that er Surprise egg is a miniature uncovered the joy of even one — the you can enjoy for the rest of your life. toy — the perfect diversion eggs are banned in the U.S., where the The answer here seems clear, folks. for working off a rush. Food and Drug Administration consid- ers them a choking hazard.

CARAMEL Silky caramel in a chocolate Caramilk is available only here All the gooey joy of a Creme Egg, ex- shell. Again, the caramel egg in the Great White North. True cept oozier and stringier and nowhere is offered by many chocolatiers, Canadians will want to stand on near as psychologically damaging as including Cadbury, which paired Those who guard for the eggs, too. eating something that looks like an theirs with the power of their best- want to nd egg yolk but tastes like sugar. An egg selling Caramilk bar. “It is the replica out how for re ned tastes. of a Caramilk bar,” says Le er, just in they get the egg form. caramel in the Car- amilk egg.

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