Well YOU try eating them one at a time!! (Cadbury's Mini Eggs)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	Cadbury's Mini Eggs
Date:	03/05/09 (204 review reads)
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Advantages: Cadburys chocolate, taste great, would make good cake decorations

Disadvantages: Calories as usual

This year we decided that we wouldn't buy one another traditional Easter Eggs as the temptation to eat too much chocolate at one sitting would just be too great. What we did instead was to buy a couple of packs of Cadbury Mini Eggs so that we could eat a few at a time and they would last us longer. That was the idea anyway, but they did get eaten rather more quickly than we had naively anticipated!

The mini eggs come in a bright yellow sealed packet which has the traditional Cadbury logo on the top and the words 'mini eggs' across the front all in purple. The eggs are described as 'solid milk chocolate eggs in a crisp sugar shell'.

The packet we bought contained 100g which was about thirty mini eggs and it cost just £1.15. I understand that there are also larger packets and also tubes of these eggs available.

The eggs are covered in the crisp sugar shell which comes in a variety of colours - pink, cream, purple, lemon etc. - each of which is speckled like a real bird's egg. The chocolate eggs themselves are only about three quarters of an inch long.

I popped one in my mouth and, as I crunched the crisp shell, my teeth sank into the glorious Cadbury's milk chocolate inside. I then tried another one and this time I let the sugar coating dissolve in my mouth leaving the chocolate to be eaten on its own. I decided that whichever way I ate them they were very nice indeed!

I would have to say that, although I thought that these were lovely, I do still prefer the Cadbury's Crème Egg Minis, but it is a close contest!

These little eggs only contain 15 calories each as opposed to the Crème Egg
Minis which contain 50 calories each but the problem with each of them is that they are very moreish and just eating a few at a time of either of them is quite difficult.

The nutritional value per mini egg is as follows:
Calories 15
Protein 0.1g
Carbohydrates 2g
Of which sugars 2g
Fat 0.6g
Of which saturates 0.4g
Fibre Nil
Salt Nil

These eggs would make an ideal decoration for Easter cakes as they look so like real eggs from a bird's nest but for eating on their own my own preference would be for the Crème Egg Minis.

Summary: I would prefer Creme Egg Minis but only just