Cadbury Giant Dairy Milk Egg - 515g

In Britain, Easter means eggs, and Cadbury eggs start lining the supermarket aisles long before anyone has thought about the date. Dairy Milk is the chocolate most British people grew up on, so a Dairy Milk egg is about as close to the centre of a British Easter as it gets.

Cadbury turns up in Canada too, but people who grew up in Britain go looking for the UK one, because that is the taste they remember. One square and you are back at your nan's, being told to save some for later.

It is one big hollow egg, 515g, so it is a sharing job unless you are very determined. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill. Crack it with a fist, the back of a spoon or a dramatic tap on the table, then pass the pieces round.

People often pick up a few Dairy Milk bars alongside it, mainly for whoever was not quick enough when the egg got opened.