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Easter sees supermarkets filled to the brim with a range of chocolate eggs and sweet treats. However, one of the most popular items is Mini Eggs.
Cadbury’s are the market leader when it comes to Mini Eggs and they have gained more attention this year after having launched their orange Mini Eggs – the first Mini Eggs flavour development in over 50 years.
With the same crunchy outer shell, these brand-new Mini Eggs contain an orange-flavoured chocolate centre, putting a tangy twist on the classic Cadbury Mini Eggs, the UK’s number one Easter treat.
But Cadbury’s isn’t the only player in the pastel candy-coated, miniature chocolate egg game.
Many major supermarkets have come out with their own version of this wildly popular Easter treat so I decided to rate them all for you out of 10.
Cadbury’s Mini Eggs (80g)
Price: £1.50
Cadbury’s Mini Eggs are one of my favourite types of chocolate – or anything from the brand really.
Biting through the crispy, sugary shell, the deliciously familiar chocolate melted in my mouth. Both the taste and texture is nostalgic. Cadbury’s chocolate is smooth and it’s safe to say they’re hard to beat – and hard to share. It is almost impossible not to wolf down the entire bag in one sitting.
However, given that the price of an 80g bag of Cadbury’s Mini Eggs retails for £1.50 at most supermarkets like Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, it brings down their rating for me.
Rating: 9/10
Morrisons Mini Speckled Eggs (80g)
Price: £1
I liked how the spotty and colourful packaging strayed from the original brand leader’s version. In terms of appearance, there is not much difference between this and the original. The shell is just a bit thicker than Cadbury’s but still offers a nice crunch.
I found that the chocolate flavour is where you can tell the difference the most, but the sugar shell pairs nicely with it.
When it comes to the price, a bag of them will only set you back £1 so they are a great money-saving alternative.
Rating: 7/10
Sainsbury’s Speckled Mini Eggs (80g)
Price: £1
The Sainsbury’s own versions looked pretty similar to the originals – both speckled and colourful.
However, the major letdown was that the chocolate tasted a little cheap, think of Christmas chocolate, and the shell-to-chocolate ratio was off. Compared to the Cadbury’s Mini Eggs, there is a significant difference in taste.
Rating: 6/10
M&S Chicky Choccy Speckled Eggs (90g)
Price: £1.25
Right from the off the cute name had me sold. The brand also does an orange-flavoured bag like Cadbury’s, which was the same price for a 75g pack.
It’s unsurprising that the Marks and Spencer’s Mini Eggs dupe is more expensive than the others, however, you do get an extra 10g in the bag.
In comparison to the brand leader’s, the chocolate eggs were huge – probably double the size. Another difference was that they were more brightly-coloured and didn’t have the same powdery finish.
Taking a bite into one of them seemed a little tricky. The candy shells were so thick so it made it a little hard to bite into them. The chocolate had a great taste, but it was the candy shell that brought the score down for me.
Rating: 7/10
Aldi Dairyfine mini choc eggs (80g)
Price: 99p
Having found some great food dupes in Aldi, it was disappointing that their mini eggs do not live up to their hype.
The outer shell was not very impressive and I would even go as far as to say lacking in crunch.
Like the Sainsbury’s mini eggs dupe, the biggest letdown was the chocolate. At 99p these were one of the cheapest mini eggs that I found, but it’s a shame the great price was not paired with a great taste.
Rating: 5/10
Tesco Milk Chocolate Eggs (75g)
Price: £1
Simply called Milk Chocolate Eggs, Tescos’ version came in a small bag made of netting with each mini egg individually wrapped in cute Easter-themed foils.
The chocolate eggs had no sugar candy shell coating them, but I thought the chocolate was a lot better than the Sainsbury’s and Aldi versions. However, the chocolate taste didn’t come close to that of the Cadbury’s Mini Eggs.
Rating: 7/10
Lidl Mister Choc Mini Eggs (80g)
Price: 99p
Lidl’s own Mini Eggs look and smell almost the same as the real deal – and I would even go as far as to say it tasted similar too.
When you open the dupe yellow packet, the waft of chocolate and sugar that hits you is so similar that you’ll be hard-pushed to tell the two brands apart.
These have a slightly more vanilla taste and the chocolate inner has a slightly different consistency on the tongue to Cadbury’s.
What’s more, if you opt for this dupe you’re saving yourself over 50p per pack without scrimping on the taste and texture.
Rating: 8/10
