Monday, February 24, 2014

Cadbury White Mini Eggs

Cadbury White Mini EggsOne of the favorite Easter candies is the Cadbury Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs. They’re unlike any other candy on the market, they’re not quite M&Ms, as the candy coating is soft and has a flavor of its own. A Dark Chocolate version came out a few years ago and though hard to find, returned again this year.

The big news is the new Target Exclusive version of Cadbury White Mini Eggs. Notice that they’re just called white, not white chocolate, just white. Though there is cocoa butter in the ingredients list (which is in real white chocolate), there are also other vegetable fats. I picked up a 9 ounce bag, which was helpfully on sale.

Cadbury White Mini Eggs

The eggs were not the shape I expected. The standard Cadbury Mini Egg is egg shaped, truly egg shaped, with a wider bottom and almost pointy top. The White Eggs are not, they’re symmetrical ovals. What occurred to me when I saw them was that they were actually a resurrection of last year’s Hershey’s White Chocolate Flavored Eggs.

So, I looked up the ingredients:

Hershey’s White Eggs 2013: Sugar, vegetable oil (cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), nonfat milk, corn syrup, milk fat, contains 2% or less of the following: cornstarch, artificial color (yellow 5, blue 1, red 40 and yellow 6), soy lecithin, resinous glaze, gum acacia, carnauba wax, vanillin, tocopherols (preservative) and PGPR.

Cadbury White Mini Eggs 2014: Sugar, vegetable oil (cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), nonfat milk, milk, reduced protein whey, lactose, milkfat, contains 2% or less of corn syrup, artificial colors (includes yellow #5, blue #2, red #40), cornstarch, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, tocopherols, salt

The difference, as far as I can tell is in the very last ingredients, that make up the shell. The white confection center is made of the same stuff. I didn’t care that much for the Hershey’s version, as I found them to be a bit too sweet and not creamy enough. Especially when compared to the pre-existing real white chocolate M&Ms.

Cadbury White Mini Eggs

I picked up a back of the M&Ms since I was already at Target for comparison. (And here’s the ingredients, as long as I’m transcribing.)

White Chocolate M&Ms: White chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk, milkfat, soy lecithin, salt, natural flavor), sugar, less than 2% of cornstarch, corn syrup, dextrin, colorings (includes yellow #5, blue #1, yellow #6, red #40), gum acacia

Cadbury White & Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs

Ultimately, the coating on these really gives them a different dimension. The soft and matte shell that the Cadbury Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs and the Cadbury White Mini Eggs share is unique and holds a special place in the textural world of Easter. I like the soft scent and interesting slick dissolve on the tongue. The vanilla pudding flavor is also pleasant and goes well with the lightly salty white center.

The one thing that was missing was that sticky, fudgy melt that the Cadbury Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs have.

I liked them better than the Hershey’s version, which is weird, because I do actually like the shell a lot on the Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Eggs. However, they’re extremely sweet and I found that after five or six I had a raging headache ... so enjoy in moderation.

Related Candies

  1. Justin’s White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
  2. Hershey’s Candy Coated White Chocolate Flavored Eggs
  3. M&Ms White Chocolate (Easter)
  4. Dove Promises White Chocolate
  5. Whitman’s Marshmallow Eggs & Carrot
  6. Hershey’s White Chocolate Meltaway Bliss
  7. Green and Black’s White Chocolate


Name: Cadbury White Mini Eggs
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Hershey’s
Place Purchased: Target (Eagle Rock)
Price: $2.19
Size: 9 ounces
Calories per ounce: 135
Categories: Candy, Easter, Cadbury, Hershey's, Kosher, Mockolate, 6-Tempting, United States, Target

POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:40 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyReviewEasterCadburyHershey'sKosherMockolate6-TemptingUnited StatesTarget

Comments
  1. Thanks, was curious about these but haven’t bothered to pick them up yet.

    In other Easter news, there are TONS of new flavors of Peeps this holiday.  I picked up bubblegum, blue raspberry and sour watermelon at wal*mart.  They’re honestly pretty good, if you don’t mind all that artificial flavoring and coloring smile

    Comment by Ruffy on 2/26/14 at 10:25 pm #
  2. Crap! I just bought two bags of these at target thinking they were like the regular mini eggs that I missed out on this year due to giving up chocolate for Lent. I hope they at least taste decent. My search for the regular chocolate mini eggs continues I suppose.

    Comment by Lori on 4/24/14 at 1:32 pm #
  3. Soooo, I tried these last night after accidentally buying them yesterday (see comment above) and I LOVE THEM!! To me, the flavor is like a Zero candy bar, which are my favorites. I am going back to Target to buy up as many of these bags as I can find so I can ration them off during the year. And then I’ll go somewhere else to continue my search for the milk chocolate variety. Yay!! I’m so glad they aren’t disgusting.

    Comment by Lori on 4/25/14 at 9:49 am #
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