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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Cadbury Ornament Creme EggI’ve talked a lot over the years about Candy Season and the accompanying seasonal candies that go with each. Slowly the candy companies are seeing that those seasonal favorites can be re-purposed into other seasons. Just like M&Ms are found in color combos for every time of the year and Russell Stover is making a marshmallow-filled pumpkin, Santa and egg, it seems that Cadbury doesn’t want anyone to miss out on incorporating their egg-shaped candies into the major holidays.
This is where the Cadbury Ornament Creme Egg comes in. It’s just a Cadbury Creme Egg with a red foil wrapper. It seems silly, but I’m going to re-review these, even though they’re no different than the Easter version. However, the last time I ate one was back in ‘06 when they were 1.38 ounces. This made for a very large reservoir of fondant ... which is not my favorite part of the Cadbury Creme Egg. (My favorite part of the Cadbury Creme Egg, for the record, was the clucking bunny commercial.) The more recent version is 1.2 ounces. The egg has a wonderful sweet dairy chocolate smell to it that reminded me of powdered milk. Both of mine had a small sticky problem around the seam (and I tried to hard to pick good ones). The nose cone of both seemed extremely thick, which gave a good dose of chocolate to the otherwise too-sweet fondant density. The fondant creme center is sweet, it’s nice and smooth indicating its freshness (an old Creme Egg will have a slight grain to the fondant). But really, it’s just a big hunk of sugar, and while I often enjoy big hunks of sugar (rock candy anyone?), I still felt a little too much of a sugar rush aftewards. I think I prefer the smaller one. I’d love it if they made a mint one (and I did find the orange one a bit better). That said, it’s still not a favorite of mine. But I’m sure fans of the Creme Egg will be happy to see it now as their stockpiles from Easter are probably long gone. While I can fault them for doing nothing more than slapping a different color wrapper on it and the word “ornament” to make it a Christmas product, I did find that making the Mini Eggs into little spheres for their new Christmas thingies did actually muck with perfection. Related Candies
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The main thing that bothers me about these (other than that they are noticeably and annoyingly smaller) is that they are called “ornaments” yet they didn’t include a darn string or hook so one might actually be able to hang it on a tree. Duh!
I saw these last week and had to buy one, even though I don’t eat them. At first I thought it was just called the Creme Ornament, and thought that the center might be colored red or green. When I saw that it really was just the repackaged egg, I thought, ‘What cheaters!’ But my brother was happy to eat it.
I agree with Jenn, they could have at least have attached a string. Although it would probably fall off!
I am so excited about this. I’ll be out scouring the Wal-Marts and Walgreens in town to find them.
Yay!! As soon as I saw this...my agenda today has is going to include looking for these! I don’t care if it is repackaged creme eggs, at least we don’t have to wait until after Valentines! Thanks for including these in your review!
Picked a few up at our Walgreens the other day (along with some marshmallow/caramel santas!) and let’s just say had a stomach ache from indulging in them before I even got home. So delicious!
Just looking at the picture of these makes my teeth hurt - I love creme eggs but I can only eat them once a year, they are so sweet (and I LOVE sweet!)
How do you eat yours? Ah, how I used to hate those adverts. XD
I used to play with my food a lot, though. I liked to demolish everything with my sweet, ready to munch anything, teeth.
I always wanted to make chocolate nests and put mini eggs inside each of them.
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