Hunting for Cadbury Eggs

I love Easter Egg Hunts.

Well, not technically. I was never really into the "hunt", it required too much energy. So let me rephrase that: I love the candy/money inside the eggs during Easter Egg Hunts.

If you can imagine, I was the fat kid who waddled around our family Easter Egg Hunt shaking all the eggs before I put them in my basket. If I could shake it and hear chocolate candy or cash I kept them. If it was jelly beans or hard candy I threw them back on the ground for my innocent little brother to enjoy.

Every year however I was only in search of finding one particular thing: The Cadbury Egg.

Finding the egg in the hunt that had the Cadbury Egg inside was like finding the jackpot. The Cadbury Egg is my guilty Easter pleasure.

As a kid I would only get a select few every year and I would save them until the very end. Well, that's not completely true. I would always eat at least one every Easter morning and then treasure the rest until every piece of my Easter candy was gone. Then finally I would enjoy my Cadbury Eggs as a final Easter reward.

Just seeing the bright colors of the foil wrapping excites me. Every year Cadbury Eggs start appearing everywhere: in grocery stores, Target, Wal-Mart and even gas stations. Then the day after Easter they're marked 75% off and then poof like magic they disappear until next year. Because these dream eggs are so limited I have made it a point to eat as many as I possibly can every single year.

Some people despise the Cadbury Egg (my wife included) because they don't understand it. "What's that thick yellow/white stuff inside?!" That my friends, is the most self satisfying creme in the world, stop trying to judge it. The creme inside is made to represent the egg yolk of a real egg and it tastes like creme from the heavens. The rich, thick sweetness with the creamy milk chocolate shell is enough to make me start sweating.

So today at my Easter Egg hunt I will be following my childhood tradition and I'll be hunting for Cadbury Eggs, even if that means taking other eggs from small children.

What Easter candy will you be hunting for?