Quality Street Incredible Egg - 379g

In Britain, Easter eggs are a season of their own. The supermarket aisles fill up weeks early, and the big boxed egg with a famous name on the front is the one the grandparents turn up with, the one that gets saved until last.

Here in Canada, you can find plenty of chocolate in spring. What people search for is the particular egg they remember from home, with the box they would know from across a car park. That is what this one is about.

It comes boxed and weighs in at 379g, which is plenty to go round a table, or not, depending on who gets to it first. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from sunny windowsills and radiators, and it will wait patiently for Sunday morning. The side of a fist on the shell is the traditional opening method.

Quality Street sits in the Nestlé family in the UK alongside names like KitKat, Aero and Smarties, so if you are building an Easter basket from home, there is good company. A smaller egg for the kids and a pack of hot cross buns tend to end up in the same bag.