Cadbury Mini Eggs - Canadian versus American taste test comparison, plus Cadbury Mini Eggs Chips Ahoy cookies

Today we've got a fun taste test with one of the best Easter treats around!

Cadbury Mini Eggs! I have to limit myself every year these come out because I seem to have no willpower when it comes to refusing them. These crunchy shelled chocolate candies are difficult to resist and I can go through an entire bag of them in no time. 

And as a special treat, as a family, we just returned from Canada where I was able to find Cadbury Mini Eggs too! And in the cookie section, I found even more Cadbury Mini Eggs inside Chips Ahoy! cookies. This should be a good one!

Cookies on top with Mini Eggs plus loads of chocolate chips. The American Cadbury Mini Eggs are on the Left, while the Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs are on the Right. 

A look at the different packaging for the two countries. I could only find mini bags in Canada, so I had to buy a few of them to compare. 

The American Cadbury Mini Eggs are produced by The Hershey Company under license from Cadbury UK. 

The Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs are prepared in Canada by Mondelēz International. 

The American ingredients include Milk Chocolate, made from sugar, milk, cocoa butter, and more. They also contain less than 2% of corn syrup and palm oil.  

The Canadian ingredients are Sugar, Milk ingredients, palm and vegetable oil, unsweetened chocolate and cocoa butter. 

Opening up the bags, there's a distinct difference in the American Cadbury Mini Eggs versus the Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs. The American Eggs have chosen a very light and pale color palate. The Canadian Eggs look more like the Easter Eggs you dye and hide, using much more bold colors. 

The size of each of the eggs is different too. The American eggs are just a little bit bigger. 

You can kind of tell from the side. 

And also from a top down view. 

But to be extra sure, we need to go to the scales. 

I chose 5 random eggs, and the scale showed 17.48 grams. That's 3.5 grams each for the American Cadbury Mini Eggs. 

The Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs tip the scales at 12.0 grams for 5. That's 2.4 grams each, meaning they are approximately 70% the size of the American Mini Eggs. 

Today we're also trying Chip Ahoy! with Cadbury Mini Eggs. I'm so used to seeing Nabisco in that upper corner of the package that it was odd to me to see Christie instead. 

A close up of the Chips Ahoy! cookies with Cadbury Mini Eggs. 

We'd remarked that many of the eggs from both countries appeared cracked. The mini eggs inside the cookies seem downright demolished. 

And are these really mini eggs? 

Theresa - Those are micro eggs. 

They look nothing like the packaging.

Theresa - They look more like mini M&Ms in the cookies.  

Alli seems a bit disappointed they don't look like the package. 

It's supposed to look like this...

(Placing a cookie and Mini Egg beside it) ... but it looks like this. 

I will say, it does have a lot of chocolate chips in the cookie, but the eggs have been destroyed. 

Theresa - Can we eat something?!? 

I know, I take too long getting pictures before we actually do the taste test. 

It's time to try the eggs! Which should we start with? 

Jacob - I think we should try the Canadian ones before the US. 

Alli - Mmm!

Jacob - Pretty good. The chocolate is not super hard. 

Joe - I was just going to mention that. It tastes creamy. 

Jacob - It actually has some flavor. And the shell is not super crunchy, which is nice. The other ones say "Crisp Sugar Shell" some I'm expecting a firmer crunch.

Joe - Is this less crispy or more crispy than an M&M? 

Theresa - More, because there's more shell I think. 

Jacob - But the texture of the chocolate is so much better than an M&M. 

Theresa - Oh yeah. This is way better than an M&M. By far.  

And now let's move on to the American version of the Mini Eggs. 

Alli - That's different!

Ian - That's better! 

Joe - The chocolate is not as soft. 

Alli - It's a very different flavor. 

Jacob - Canada wins!

Alli - Yeah, Canada. 

Ian - What?!? No! Disagreement all around! 

Jacob - Canada seemed like a more delicate flavor. 

Theresa - This one has more of a "Hershey's Chocolate" flavor. 

Joe - What about the shell? Anyone notice a difference in the shell? Or were you all concerned about the chocolate flavor? I think the US version has a crunchier shell. 

Theresa - I'm interested in the chocolate flavor. Canada is better. 

Jacob - The Hershey's ones say Milk Chocolate. Canada just says unsweetened chocolate. 

Joe - And Canada has palm oil higher. Maybe that's making it smoother. 

Theresa - It's good that I like the Canadian ones better because I can't get them here. 

Alli - The Canadian chocolate has a more mellow flavor. The American is a hard chocolate. 

Theresa - Too bad you didn't bring back more of those. 

Going around the table, what are the votes? Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs or American Cadbury Mini Eggs? 

Canadian Cadbury Mini Eggs - Theresa, Alli, Jacob, Joe

American Cadbury Mini Eggs - Ian 

Jacob inspecting the shell to see if he can tell a difference. 

Ian even managed to "peel" and egg and remove the shell completely. 

Joe - Now it looks like a bunny egg. 

Ian - What? 

Joe - It looks like a bunny left that egg for you. 

Ian - Do bunnies even lay eggs? 

Jacob - They do at Easter!

Theresa - I think they "deliver" eggs. 

"No Bunny know Easter better than Cadbury's"

But I think we can go more scientific with this. I crushed two eggs. The Canadian one is on the left while the American one is on the right. The Canadian chocolate seems a little more pale compared to the darker Hershey's American chocolate. 

I pulled out my precision calipers and tried to measure a section that wasn't too curved. In this very limited example, the American Cadbury Mini Egg shell measured 1.0mm. 

While the Canadian Cadbury Mini Egg measured 0.8mm. 

Well now that that has been decided, let's move on to the cookies. 

Theresa - I don't want a whole cookie. (Breaks one in half) Oh! Okay...

Jacob - I mean, it's going to turn to dust. 

Joe - These are very dry cookies. 

Ian - The texture of the cookie is off. 

Alli - And the flavor isn't as good as a regular one. (They have them in their lunches sometimes)

Theresa - It's a Chips Ahoy cookie. Come one guys. They're not great. 

Jacob - I haven't had a Chips Ahoy in a long time and I feel like this is not as good as the Chips Ahoy I remember. 

Theresa - I don't like Chips Ahoy to begin with and I don't like that. 

Alli - These are worse than Chips Ahoy cookies. 

Joe - And the eggs don't do anything for the cookie. You can't even tell they're in there 

Theresa - The egg might be okay. But they're so little you can't taste them. But the cookie itself isn't good. They can keep those cookies in Canada. 

Alli - I'd still eat them. 

Joe - I don't care for the cookies. 

Theresa - That would be a waste of calories.  

Alli just couldn't do with a cookie with such little Cadbury Mini Eggs in them. She decided to make one herself. 

Looks good Alli! 

That made it better she claimed. 

So, in all, we liked the Mini Eggs regardless of which country they came from, but giving an edge to the Cadbury Mini Eggs from Canada. The Chips Ahoy cookies were nothing special and having Cadbury Mini Eggs inside them did nothing special. We'd skip them going forward.