Cadbury's Mini Eggs - Perfection in a tube (Cadbury's Mini Eggs)

Member Name: KLockwood75

Product:	Cadbury's Mini Eggs
Date:	02/04/09 (253 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Simply delicious

Disadvantages: Dangerously addictive and full of calories

Following on from my Cadbury's Cream Egg review, I thought I would stick with the Easter theme and review one of my real passions, Cadbury's Mini Eggs. Unlike the Cream Egg, there is no ambivalence about how I feel about Cadbury's Mini Eggs, I absolutely love them and would happily sit there eating my way through a whole large bag without a second thought.

Like the Cream Eggs, Mini Eggs are seasonal and are only around in the shops in the run-up to Easter. For me, personally, I believe this is a good thing as if they were around all the time I could easily become addicted. As it is, I wait eagerly for their reappearance, buy the first little tube I see and then eat them all at once, savouring the sweet crunchy shells and smooth Cadbury's chocolate inside.

Appearance and Taste
Mini Eggs look like little eggs with different pastel coloured shells, slightly speckled to give the appearance of 'real' eggs. The shells are sweet and crunchy, and the insides are pure Cadbury's chocolate. The contrast between the sugary crunchiness of the shell and the smoothness of the chocolate inside is simply delicious, and I think this is why they are one of my favourite Easter treats. They are seriously addictive and, although I like to believe I can stop after a few, I will undoubtedly keep eating them until the packet is empty.

Pack Sizes and Prices
Mini Eggs come in a variety of size packs - my personal preference is for the little 45g tubes as it means that when I undoubtedly eat them all, then it's not a complete disaster for my diet. There is also a large 120g tube, a 100g bag or a 400g bag. The 45g tube costs about 59p, the 120g tube costs £1.29 and the giant 400g bag costs £3.49.

Nutritional Information
The following is based on 100g of mini eggs - Calories 455, Protein 4.6g, Carbohydrate 64.7g (of which sugars) 63.1g, Fat 20g. A single mini egg has 15 calories -the problem is stopping at just one or two! Basically, these are NOT a healthy snack, they are high in both fat and calories but that doesn't stop me loving them. And, to be honest, if you're buying Cadbury's Mini Eggs, you probably don't really care too much about the calories so just enjoy them.

Other Mini Egg Products
You can also buy Mini Egg Chocolate Nest cakes from the cake section of the supermarket and a large Chocolate Gateau style cake. There are a variety of large Cadbury's Mini Egg Easter eggs on the market as well, plus a Cadbury's Mini Egg Twin Pot Dessert which has a few mini eggs and a chocolate mousse to dip them in. So there are plenty of ways to feed your mini egg addiction - I'd rather just eat the eggs themselves though.

Serving Suggestions
In my opinion, the best way to eat Mini Eggs is one after the other straight from the bag, but they are also good as cake decorations. They look really good on chocolate cornflake nest cakes (my son bought some home that he'd made at nursery last week and we are planning to make our own over the weekend), or to decorate the top of a large homemade cake. You could also put them into an Easter basket with an assortment of other small eggs and maybe a Lindt bunny, to create an alternative Easter gift to the traditional large eggs.

Overall, I would say that Cadbury's Mini Eggs are my favourite Easter treat - I look forward to their arrival in the shops every year and it's a real challenge for me to resist having too many. There's a bag in my fridge at home which I'm saving to decorate the Easter nest cakes and I swear they're calling out to me every time I open the fridge. If you haven't tried them, go on and give them a try!

Summary: Basically, I just love them... I wish they were available all year