Nestle Milkybar White Chocolate Egg - 72g

In Britain the Easter egg aisle goes up weeks early, and Milkybar holds its own among the big names. It is the white chocolate one, the egg children ask for by name and grown-ups quietly pinch a bit of.

Here in Canada, it is the one people go looking for when Easter comes round and they want the egg they had growing up. Often it is not even for them. It is for their own children, so the same egg turns up on the same morning, just a few thousand miles further west.

The 72g egg is a good size for a little one, an egg hunt or an Easter basket, and it does not leave anyone feeling defeated by mid-afternoon. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from a sunny windowsill, and it will sit happily in the cupboard until the hunt.

Most people pick it up alongside a few other British Easter bits: a bigger milk chocolate egg for the grown-ups, or a couple of everyday Milkybar bars for when the egg has, inevitably, vanished.