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Why does Easter egg chocolate taste so much more elite than your average chocolate bar? It turns out there’s an actual reason behind it, and an Easter egg expert has spilled the beans
Each and every Easter, the question on everybody’s lips is ‘How does Easter egg chocolate taste so much better than normal bars?’
People often ponder whether there’s more sugar in Easter egg chocolate, or whether it’s just straight-up magic that makes the once-a-year eggs taste divine, but a professional Easter egg taster has shared the secret – and it makes so much sense.
It’s all down to “the way the eggs are made”, rather than companies pulling the wool over our eyes about what’s inside the chocolate. Tim Kelly, 33, tastes Easter eggs for a living for Morrisons, so he knows all too well how delicious they are. And now he’s shared the industry secret.
He told The Mirror that “the main reason” Easter eggs taste far superior to your average bar of chocolate is down to the “way they’re made”. Easter eggs are “spun in the moulds” – but how does that make a difference?
“You deposit liquid chocolate into a mould and they are spun into an Easter egg shape to give them an even texture around the mould,” Tim explained.
“Because you get a thin layer of chocolate when you’re eating an Easter egg, it melts much quicker on the tongue than a standard chocolate bar would, and therefore, you get a more immediate hit of flavours and aromas from the chocolate itself. Chocolate has quite a complex flavour system because of the roasting process.
“So essentially the aromas and the flavours hit your brain faster because of the way it melts on your tongue, and it’s all delivered in a much quicker way so you get more of an immediate pleasure hit with an Easter egg than you do with a thicker chocolate bar.”
Tim even confirmed that the chocolate used for Easter eggs “is the same grade and quality used in chocolate bars”, which means that the reason it tastes so good is literally because our brain can process it faster as it’s thinner. Who’d have thought it’d be something so simple?
If you want to try the range Tim worked on, it can be purchased from Morrisons. You can try the Best Belgian Dark Chocolate With Pink Himalayan Salt, the Best White Dark Chocolate & Butterscotch Salted Egg, the Best Milk & Blonde Chocolate, Caramel, Pretzel & Honeycomb, the Best Belgian White & Blonde Chocolate Easter Egg and the Best Belgian Milk Chocolate & Orange Easter Egg, all for just £5.
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