The Cadbury Creme Egg

Every year an iconic chocolate treat arrives for a limited time only: the chocolate and fondant wonder which is the Cadbury Creme Egg.

The Creme Egg is a chocolate egg filled with white and yellow fondant, to look like the white and yolk of a hen’s egg. The eggs are made in two halves and stuck together in Cadbury’s factory in Bourneville, near Birmingham.

Creme Eggs are only available from New Year until Easter each year. Despite its limited availability, the Cadbury Creme Egg is remarkably popular in Britain: every year more Creme Eggs are sold than any other chocolate in the months the egg is on sale, and Cadbury sells three eggs for every person in the UK - that’s enough to stretch from the UK to Australia if you laid them end to end.

Cadbury have advertised Creme Eggs with many slogans, the most famous being “How do you eat yours?” They claim that the most popular way to eat a Creme Egg is to bite off the top of the egg and lick out the fondant filling; apparently 53% of people claim to eat Creme Eggs that way!

Cadbury launched cream-filled eggs in 1923, but the Creme Egg that is sold today was not invented until 1971.

Now you can eat your Cadbury Creme Egg in English-speaking countries around the world, including the USA, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.