Cadbury Festive Animals - 6 Pack

Cadbury Animals have been a fixture of British childhood for years: the small chocolate biscuit that turned up in a packed lunch and got eaten in a very specific order. The festive version is the same idea dressed for December, and it sits in the British Christmas cupboard alongside the selection box and the tin that goes round after dinner.

People in Canada go looking for these because Christmas morning should look the way it did at home. The purple Cadbury name on a little pack in the stocking is a small thing, and it does a lot of work. If your kids are growing up with Christmas in Canada, this is how you hand a bit of yours down.

The 6 pack means six separate packs, which makes sharing fair and hiding easy. Keep them somewhere cool in the cupboard, well away from the radiator and the tree lights. They go in stockings, party bags, the end of a lunchbox, or the pocket of whoever is driving to the in-laws.

They tend to travel home in the same basket as a Cadbury selection box and a bar or two of Dairy Milk, because one bit of British Christmas food never quite feels like enough.