Easter is on the horizon and for Icelandic children and grown ups alike, it is time to purchase a candy filled Easter egg! 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! :)
Ingredients: Sugar, cocoa mass, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithin), flavouring. The chocolate contains a minimum of 46% dry cocoa solids.
May contain trace amounts of nuts, wheat and milk.
Allergens: The product may contain trace amounts of nuts.