Runet argues that such sweets appeared in the Russian Empire long before the invention of Kinder Surprise. We checked the reliability of this information.
The Italian company Ferrero began to produce modern Kinder-Surprise in the early 1970s. And it so happened that the palm of the championship in the creation of this popular dessert belongs to her. Although, in fact, the idea to put a surprise in a chocolate egg - a pleasant trinket that will delight the child - appeared long before that, in pre -revolutionary Moscow. Yes, the first Kinder Surprises began to be produced in the Russian Empire. Moreover, this product was seasonal. The chocolate egg could be purchased only on the occasion of Easter's bright holiday, ”the magazine wrote"Homeland»In April 2025. Similar publications can also be found in publications "The window to Russia","Culturology"And on the federal portal"History of Russia".
The idea to replace or supplement traditional painted or painted Easter eggs with a more valuable gift appeared a few centuries ago. So, in the Danish royal collection Store The ivory egg made at the beginning of the 18th century in France, which can be opened and found inside the golden yolk, inside of which is a golden chicken, inside which is a hollow crown, inside which is a ring with diamonds. A century and a half later, Karl Faberge will create your version This eggs are ordered by Emperor Alexander III (his wife was the Danish princess, probably seeing a “prototype” as a child).
Those to whom such masterpieces of decorative and applied and jewelry were not affordable, could buy large eggs decorated with drawings papier-mash or cardboard (such were sold in many European countries). They also opened and could put some kind of small surprise inside.
As for chocolate eggs, they appeared in the 19th century. In 1828 in the Netherlands company Van Houten Invented a hydraulic press separating from the ground cocoa-beans of cocoa-butter (in most publications, the invention is attributed to Konrad van Hutenu, but the patent is decorated in the name of his father Casparus). Van Houten began to produce from the zimkh, the remaining psla squeezing cocoa-masla, cocoa powder. And British James Fry developed a recipe for solid chocolate that can be molded. He did it, mixing ground cocoa beans, cocoa oil, sugar and spices. In 1847, his company J.S. Fry and Sons started produce Tile chocolate. In 1873, she established production and the first in the world chocolate eggs.
In two years, chocolate eggs appeared And in the assortment of another British company - Cadbury’s. But if Easter delicacies from J.S. Fry and Sons were hollow, then there was a surprise inside the Cadbury’s chocolate eggs - small chocolate dragees in sugar glaze.
Soon, chocolate eggs with dragees, candy, sugared nuts and other sweets inside appeared in the assortment and other manufacturers. Who was the first to think of putting something inedible in the chocolate egg, it is no longer possible to install it for certain. However, by the beginning of the 1910s, such Easter eggs were sold throughout Europe-including Russia.
Thus, the first Easter chocolate eggs with a surprise in the form of dragees appeared in the UK in 1875. Later, they began to put not only sweets, but also small toys. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, such products appeared in the assortment of many European firms, including Russian ones. And the innovation of chocolate eggs "Kinder Surprise"It was that they began to produce and sell them all year round, not just before Easter.
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