Forget hollow little chocolate eggs of any brand and even the toy containing, US banned, Kinder eggs... The hands-down most amazing Easter egg has got to be the Fazer "Mignon" egg! The Mignon egg is a solid almond nougat egg inside a real egg-shell. It blows my mind they can mass produce these decadent treats!
Apparently Karl Fazer first made these eggs in 1896. Russia‘a last Tsar, Nikolai II, was a fan (Finland was part of Russia then) and had them shipped to St Petersburg for Easter. They are still popular: apparently 1,6 million eggs get shipped in for production of these. Not all egg shells make it through the production process. The eggs themselves also get used since Fazer also makes cookies and other baked goods.
Karl Fazer’s company of course still lives on... and makes many of my favorite candy. (More on that in a separate post.). Per Fazer website, these eggs are still made by hand. The right sized shells get selected, then sucked empty somehow, cleaned and sterilized. Then they get filled by hand with exactly 52 g of the almond nougat ( almond, hazelnuts, sugar, cocobutter, manilla and chocolote). Apparently this isn’t chocolate because it contains no milk. It then gets cooled down and the fill hole gets closed with a paste made out of egg white and sugar. In stores only around Easter time: 2 Euros well spent!
ps. I just learnt the best way to open them is to roll them on the table with a bit of pressure for a large clean break.
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