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Meaning behind ‘hidden’ number on Cadbury’s Creme Eggs revealed

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Published 15:43 17 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Meaning behind ‘hidden’ number on Cadbury’s Creme Eggs revealed

This will blow your mind

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Danielle Fowler

Danielle Fowler

In the countdown to Easter, the meaning behind the ‘hidden’ number found on Cadbury’s Creme Eggs has been revealed - and it might surprise you.

To satisfy your sweet tooth, the British chocolate factory reportedly wraps a whopping 50,000 of the eggs every hour using four machines at the same time.

The military operation is different to how other chocolate bars are made too, as a consequence of its iconic round and hollow shape.

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"The Creme Egg is made in quite a unique process, it's not like a normal chocolate bar,” David Shepard, Product Developer of the Mondelēz International Research and Development team, told the Daily Star.

“Normally in a chocolate factory when you have a filling, like a Creme Egg, you make a chocolate shell, you set the shell and put the middle in. Now, that's a way we're making the Creme Egg tablet. But actually for the Creme Egg, it's really clever how it's done.”

"Basically, you deposit the goo centre, the yolk and the white, into liquid chocolate and it very cleverly pushes it out. We call it displacement.

"That's the only product I know does that. It's put into moulds and the two halves come together - it's fantastic. You think it will make a complete mess, but it doesn't."

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So, what’s the ‘secret’ number everyone is talking about got to do with anything? Well, you can find out where your egg came from by simply looking at a discreet number at the bottom of the tin foil wrapping.

You’ll need to be careful when searching for it, as the notoriously sticky treat can make it difficult to find, but there should be a small letter ‘W’ lying beneath the barcode.

The number following the letter will indicate which machine wrapped it. For instance, in the image below, our Creme Egg boasts ‘W3’ at the bottom which means it was wrapped using the machine three. Mind. Blown.

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Where to find the cheapest Creme Eggs this Easter

If all of this talk of chocolate has left you peckish, you can currently pick up a box of 48 Creme Eggs for £24.99 on Amazon - that’s equivalent to just over 52p per egg.

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The bundle is usually priced at £36, so if you’re keen to score a good deal, don’t hang around.

“I ate all of them in three days,” one customer confessed in the reviews. “Why do the gods torment me with Creme Eggs that are this cheap and this tasty? I hate what I’ve become. I’m buying more.”

Race you there.

Head over to Amazon to grab the offer while it lasts.

Featured Image Credit: Getty/Bloomberg

Topics: Easter, Food And Drink

Danielle Fowler
Danielle Fowler

Danielle Fowler is the Affiliates Writer at LADbible Group, working across LADbible, Tyla, GAMINGbible, SPORTbible and UNILAD. She covers the latest trends in fashion and beauty, writes about standout gadgets, and reviews the must-have products everyone's talking about.

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