Easter is on the horizon and for Icelandic children and grown ups alike, how about purchasing a big candy filled Easter egg made with chocolate coated liquorice? This one totals 540 grams (a whole imperial pound) of chocolate, liquorice and candy. Enough to get you through Easter loaded with chocolate. And, to make the experience more distinctly Icelandic, fused with liquorice.
The story behind the chocolate Easter egg is actually European more than it is Icelandic as landowners in the Middle Ages claimed eggs from their subjects as rent around spring time.
Eggs were high in demand in spring as hen didn´t lay any during winter. A part of these were then given to poor children during Easter and that is where the whole Easter egg tradition starts. The chocolate egg is a more recent thing and they have been made in Iceland since 1920 or since Nói Siríus started their factory in Reykjavík.
The egg has various Icelandic candy inside along with an Icelandic saying! We encourage you to send us a picture of it on our Instagram @rvkgrapevine and we will translate and explain it to you free of charge! :) - Or if you don't like human interaction, ask ChatGPT.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), bourbon vanilla. Cocoa dry solids min. 37%), sugar, glucose syrup, wheat (gluten), cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, whey powder (milk), fully hydrogenated coconut fat, grape extract, humectant (E422), liquorice extract, gelatin, potato starch, stabiliser (E414, E420, E471), acid (E296), acidity regulators (E330, E331, E500), flavoring, glazing agent (E901, E903, E904), vegetable oils (coconut and rapeseed), molasses, milk protein, cornstarch, corn, black carrots extract, colours (E100, E120, E133, E141, E150d, E153, E160a, E160c, E162, E163, E172), coloring foods (extracts from spirulina, safflower, carrots, black carrots and hibiscus), potato protein, rice flour, rice starch, table salt, barley malt extract (gluten), emulsifiers (soya lecithin, sunflower lecithin).May contain trace amounts of nuts, wheat and milk.
Allergens: The product may contain trace amounts of nuts.