Chocolate Eggs
The use of painted and decorated Easter eggs was first recorded in the 13th century, but chocolate eggs didn’t come on the scene until the early 1800s in France and Germany, after manufacturers developed a way to make solid eating chocolate (until then, cocoa had just been a beverage). The first hollow eggs were a very labor-intensive treat, as the cocoa paste had to be handpainted layer by layer onto the moulds. Today, chocolate eggs account for roughly 8 percent of all annual chocolate sales, and people buy more chocolate candy for Easter than for any other holiday except Valentine’s Day. —C.H.
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