Cadbury Mini Egg Pouch - 80g

In Britain, Mini Eggs are how you know spring has turned up. They appear in the shops not long after the new year and become the unofficial currency of Easter, swapped, hoarded and pressed into the top of chocolate nest cakes by children with sticky fingers.

If you grew up with them, it is the shell you are after. That particular snap, then the chocolate, then reaching for another before you have finished the last. It is a very specific memory, and the Cadbury one is the one that fits it.

The 80g pouch is the honest size: enough to share in theory, small enough to finish on your own in practice. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from a sunny windowsill, and the shells stay crisp. People scatter them over cakes, push them into cookie dough, or leave the pouch open on the coffee table and see what happens.

They sit nicely in a basket next to a Creme Egg and a bar of Dairy Milk, and they make a good little extra in a parcel for someone who has been away from Britain too long.