Sunday, April 23, 2017

Cadbury creme eggs ingredients


Cadbury's UK (as bought in Ireland):
Milk chocolate: Milk solids 14% minimum. Contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter. Milk chocolate egg with a soft fondant centre (47%). Ingredients: Sugar, milk, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, invert sugar syrup, dried whey (from milk), cocoa mass, vegetable fats (palm, shea), emulsifier (E442), dried egg white, flavourings, colour (paprika extract).


Cadbury's US ingredients (as produced by Hershey's under license from Cadbury):
Milk Chocolate: (sugar, milk, chocolate, cocoa butter, milk fat, nonfat milk, soy lecethin, natural and artificial flavors), sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% or less of: artificial color (Yellow #6), artificial flavor, calcium chloride, egg whites.

These ingredients are from Easter 2017, so after Cadbury changed from using dairy milk chocolate in the UK.

Tasting them side by side, I was a bit surprised to find a significant difference. The UK eggs were richer and creamier, with a better flavor. The US eggs just tasted too sugary by comparison, and the fondant was more translucent, like sugar syrup.