Marks & Spencer is selling mini savoury 'cheese eggs' for Easter
The 'cheesy eggs' will be available to buy from Wednesday 18 March
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Your support makes all the difference.Marks & Spencer has announced it won’t only be selling sweet chocolate eggs this Easter but will also be adding a savoury offering to its range.
The high street shop will be launching its first ever cheese Easter egg from Wednesday 18 March.
The wax-covered mini eggs are made from Barber’s farmhouse cheddar and have a vintage Red Leicester ‘yolk’ middle.
Each egg has been hand-dipped in a duck egg blue wax ‘shell’ and is roughly the size of a large hen egg.
They will be sold in a cardboard egg box of six for £8.50. And will be available across almost 600 M&S stores in the UK.
A larger cheesy egg (roughly the size of a goose egg) will also be available from next week for £8.
M&S product developer, Rosie Eiduks says: “Delicious as it is, we know not everyone loves chocolate.
"Those with a more savoury-tooth can sometimes feel left out of the fun at Easter, so this year, we wanted to create a must-have gift for cheese lovers too!”
“Beautiful served on an Easter lunch cheese board, sliced into a sandwich or salad, or loaded on top of crackers.”
In February Marks & Spencer announced they would be re-branding their popular Colin the caterpillar cake as an Easter bunny.
The cake, which was covered in milk chocolate and adorned with mini carrot and egg-shaped decorations.
But the rabbit-inspired cake was criticised by customers who said it reminded them of Donnie Darko and looked “demonic”.
In May 2019 the shop was praised for introducing vegetarian-friendly Percy Pig sweets.
After years of selling the sweets with a gelatine recipe, they decided to remove it from the list of ingredients.
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