Luxury sustainable chocolate brand, Love Cocoa has extended its Easter offering to include two marbled eggs in salted caramel and strawberries and cream. Barry Glazier, director of chocolate science at Mars Wrigley said this impacted their thinking: ‘Orange and chocolate is one of those winning combinations that never gets old. Despite brands being in competition with each other for Christmas sales, and most planning their releases months in advance, the market has been flooded with an influx of chocolate orange items all at once. Looking to spice up celebrations this April, FMCG giant Heinz looks to challange tastebuds with the launch of its limited edition Hot Cross Bun flavoured mayonnaise. M&S has rolled out new Fried Egg Choc Corn for Easter which features sweet and salted toffee popcorn, smothered in white chocolate and topped with a salted caramel filled ‘yolk’.

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It’s not the first time the bun has caused a stir on social media. Last year, Samantha Ramsdell, the Woman with the World’s Biggest Mouth, attempted to eat the bun whole, but despite having a mouth spanning an enormous 2.56 inches, the TikToker couldn’t quite manage it, much to the disappointment of her 2.9 million followers. Love SMARTIES ®?! Why not try the SMARTIES ® Giant tube containing a mixture of 8 different colours! Each round of testing meant we could tweak the recipe to make it the perfect balance of sweet chocolate and crisp citrus notes, combined with freshly baked dough.’

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The nation has been extremely receptive to numerous orange launches, so many more manufacturers developed an orange offering this year to make sure they were meeting evolving customer needs.’ Bringing a savoury twist to the classic Easter egg, Morrisons has launched two new offerings made entirely of cheese. Jumping on the trend, Cadbury has released a whole range of products with a citrus twist in the last few months.One of the winners in our 2019 campaign, which received 300,000 entries and 221,500 votes, was Simply The Zest featuring Orange flavoured Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate blended with caramel and biscuit. This year we have already received over 12,000 entries that include Orange as an ingredient. However, many brands and retailers are also offering the traditional favourites that we know and love at this time of year. Cadbury told Metro.co.uk : ‘We know that Orange is one of the most popular fruit flavours in the UK and Ireland, and that preference has only grown year on year. Our Cadbury Inventor campaign, where the nation has the opportunity to design their own Cadbury Dairy Milk bar, builds on our insights as to which flavour combinations people across the UK and Ireland want to experience in their favourite chocolate bar. Fill the cored out middle with Dairyfine Mini Chocolate Eggs, Moser Roth Office Bunnies and Dairyfine Milk Chocolate Lambs, before placing a section of the cored middle on top to hide the surprise

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Across its bakery products, Waitrose is set to offer Luxury Hot Cross Buns, Mature Cheddar and Stout Hot Cross Buns, Chocolate and Orange Panettone and a Carrot Patch Cake. M&S’ Choc Corn and hot cross buns Due to this shift in behaviour, we have also seen an increase in the number of treats enjoyed in the home and so we imagine that there will also be an increase in demand for treats that hero much-loved seasonal flavours. Ribbon Easter Eggs have been added to this year’s confectionary offerings in caramel, orange and raspberry flavours, as well as two types of fudge in chocolate marshmallow and carrot cake.We ensure we learn from every product launch of a Cadbury product as it is a truly global favourite, all our insights and pride have helped make Cadbury Dairy Milk Orange Fingers and Cadbury Dairy Milk Orange Giant Buttons and our limited Edition Cadbury Twirl Orange extremely popular in 2020.’ Cornetto has also been keeping an eye on trends, and saw the appeal of a nostalgic treat this, particularly in 2020. Its Easter collection also features a giant 41% milk chocolate egg, petite praline chocolate eggs, a Maldon sea salt dark chocolate egg and a limited edition easter bunnycomb bar. The good news for those who like the taste, (and bad news for those who don’t) is that it looks likely to reach beyond Christmas time. These will join its current salted caramel egg offering, as well as new peanut butter Bunny bites which feature oat milk chocolate truffles with a peanut butter filling. Happi’s oat milk Easter egg bars