Cheese, in its many glorious forms, is always a crowd pleaser. But we never would have expected a cheese Easter egg to look as sophisticated as M&S's new offering.
Around the size of a small hens egg, the solid cheese ‘eggs’ have 'white' made with Barber’s Farmhouse Cheddar and a vintage 18-month matured Red Leicester ‘yolk’ from Belton Farm. Hand-dipped in blue wax ‘shells’, the half dozen eggs even come in a cardboard egg box.
Sliced up is when they really shine, adding a wow factor to a humble cheeseboard. Remove the wax and add to a salad, or save for some well-deserved cheese and crackers when all the fuss is over.
6 Mini Cheesy Eggs, Buy in store from M&S, £8.50, 360g
New research from M&S food found 55% of UK adults prefer savoury snacks over sweet ones, and four in 10 (41%) prefer eating cheese over chocolate.
M&S Product Developer, Rosie Eiduks said in a press release, “Delicious as it is, we know not everyone loves chocolate, and that the nation is actually divided between Team Sweet and Team Savoury. 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!”
We're team both.
M&S, 6 Mini Cheesy Eggs, £8.50, 360g, available in store.
A Big Cheesy Egg, £8.00, 300g, (roughly the dimensions of a goose egg) will also be available in 250 M&S stores from next Wednesday 18th March.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
