When I read that the Cadbury Fingers Easter Egg offered 17 portions , it’s safe to say that I was as dubious about the claim as the rest of you.
But it is there, in purple and white, on the box, reading ‘approximately 17 portions per hollow egg’.
When we shared our review of the eggs, readers laughed in the face of the serving suggestion, with one commenter writing: “Serves 17? It’s for 2 people max. Or 2 servings for 1 person”
Another said: “serves 17? They have underestimated me.”
“Serves 17?? Is that a challenge?” wrote a third person.
And like with the Colin the Caterpillar cake, I assumed I’d be pretty disappointed with my portion size if true - but you know what? It wasn’t so bad.
The box displays a weight of 547g, and so I divided this by 17 and rounded down to 32g, reports the Manchester Evening News. I cracked the egg with the heaviest kitchen utensil I could find, which happened to be a lemon squeezer, and it seemed to do the trick.
I weighed each portion out to 32g, before setting them aside on a plate. By potion five, I was wondering how on earth you’d get more than 10 out of it. Yet, when I reached 10 portions, I was stunned.
The chocolate itself is quite heavy due to the chocolate finger biscuit that’s encased by the egg. It gives it quite a bit of weight, but portion sizes are still decent nonetheless.
I had got to 13 and a half 32g servings when I ran out of egg, which left me wondering if I’d got the maths wrong (it was never my strong point).
It was then I realised that each of the three snack sized Cadbury Fingers bags contained 40g of chocolate, too. Which is where my missing three and a half portions were!
So technically speaking - very technically - if I’d split the egg into 25g portions, and equally distributed the snack sized fingers, then this Tesco-exclusive Easter egg really could be split into 17 portions.
It very much feels like an optical illusion, or those seemingly impossible brain training questions - but the serving sizes it does give is enough to curb a sugar craving without making you feel sick.
Not only that, but in eating a ‘portion’ a day - your Easter egg will last two and a half weeks, taking you into the start of May.
