'It's Colin with added bling': We tried the M&S Easter treat shoppers say is too cute to eat

Published date27 March 2024
Publication titleManchester Evening News: Web Edition Articles (England)
Shoppers have been busy snapping up the adorable pair ahead of the Easter weekend and they'll be sure to steal the show on any Easter table

Some have already declared the treats as 'too good to eat', but obviously we had to sample the goods ahead of the big day.

What you get is two chocolate sponge rolls with chocolate buttercream, covered in milk chocolate. Colin is decorated with little colourful egg-shaped pieces of what tastes like crunchy icing, and has a chocolate nest on his back holding a chocolate mini egg. Meanwhile Easter Lamb is covered with curly white chocolate shavings made to look like ‘wool’.

We're getting quite used to Colin having a makeover -Yummy Mummy Colin the Caterpillar appears each Halloween -and obviously it's all done to pull in the extra customers.

But the creations never fail to impress, on looks as well as taste, and this one is no...

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