Fans took to Twitter to express their outrage over a recipe changes in Cadbury Creme Eggs in the U.K. (Photo: Paul Vathis, Associated Press) 
 
 New changes to Cadbury Creme Eggs are proving to be anything but sweet for fans of the chocolaty treat. 
 
 Folks in the United Kingdom are upset with recipe changes and the reduction of a pack of the candies from six eggs to five, without changing the price. 
 
 Under a new recipe, the shell of the United Kingdom version of the eggs is now made with a "standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate," Stephanie Minna Cass, 
 
 a spokesperson for Mondelez International told USA TODAY Network. 
 
 The company separated from Kraft Foods Group, which acquired Cadbury Chocolate in 2010. 
 
 Fans took to Twitter to express their outrage over changes they feel "cheapen" the brand. 
 
 Have you tried the NEW #CadburysCremeEggs ??!! Not very good at all! — Your Boy! Brian (@yourboyBrianRD) January 12, 2015 
 
 Why would you change it!?! Could taste the difference straight away.. Won't be buying any till they are changed back! #CadburysCremeEggs — Kishan Raja (@kishanraja26) January 12, 2015 
 
 #CadburysCremeEggs if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it! — Mark Dowse (@devonoffice) January 12, 2015 
 
 The recipe change was too much for some Twitter users, still reeling from the news of the five-pack. 
 
 Creme Eggs are now 5 in a box instead of 6 AND for the same price, not cool @CadburyUK ✋ — Kayleigh (@kayleighjr) January 11, 2015 
 
 Just read that @CadburyUK is changing the Creme egg recipe. Nooooo! I'm already mad about the 5-packs. #CadburysCremeEggs — Caroline Domenech (@the_adverb) January 12, 2015 
 
 Egg boxes have 6 eggs minimum, not 5!! Oh and bring back the dairy milk shell. Don't mess with a national treasure! #CadburysCremeEggs — Ella Cservenka (@ellaroo1) January 12, 2015 
 
 Cadbury U.K. blamed the downsizing of eggs on "economic factors" like the cost of ingredients. 
 
 @JonnoHuggard we now sell them in 5 packs due to changes in economic factors, such as - cost of ingredients that make our eggs so delicious! — Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) January 12, 2015 
 
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 Stop all the clocks. Cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. 
 
 Monday 12 January 2015 will go down in confectionery history as a bad day. A hurtful day. 
 
 The day when it was revealed that Cadbury’s Creme Eggs have changed for ever. 
 
 No longer shall the egg shell be made from delicious Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate. It will instead be made from disgusting, foul, vomit-inducing “standard cocoa mix chocolate”. 
 
 “It’s no longer Dairy Milk. It is similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk,” said a spokesman for Cadbury, which was bought by the US giant Kraft in 2010 and is now owned by Mondelez, with a flippancy almost as hard to stomach as this new, Frankenstein’s monster of an egg is bound to be. 
 
 The spokesman said the new chocolate had been tested on “consumers” – industry shorthand for “idiots”, clearly – and had been “found to be the best one for Creme Egg”. 
 
 He added: “The Creme Egg had never been called Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Creme Egg. We have never played on the fact that Dairy Milk was used.” 
 
 As true as that may be, it offers little consolation for fans of the original. 
 
 The combination of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and whatever it is that goes into the cream/creme that forms the centre of a true Cadbury Creme Egg is one of the all-time great double acts. Would you separate Laurel and Hardy so lightly? Bill from Hillary? Romeo from Juliet? Bell from spigot? 
 
 Of course not. It would be outrageous, not to mention unfair. All those individuals are or were utterly dependent on the other. Their relationships are or were watertight. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and whatever it is that goes into the cream/creme that forms the centre of a Creme Egg deserved the same respect. The same longevity. 
 
 The Cadbury Creme Egg was a rare thing in this modern age. Its subtle blend of delicious chocolate and sweet, creamy/cremey yolk was a throwback to the days when chocolatiers took pride in their work. 
 
 Without the Dairy Milk shell – and I say this without having tried the new product, obviously – we are left with nothing less than an abomination. This new Creme Egg is a Creme Egg that is barely worthy of the name. Fabergé, hen, goose … are you watching? Are you willing to have this, this … thing sully your fine work? 
 
 There are already two differing Creme Eggs. There is the UK-manufactured flagship, a full 40g of chocolatey egg glory. Then there is its American, dear-god-hide-it-in-the-attic sibling, a wretched creature offering a mere 34g of satisfaction. 
 
 Creme Egg enthusiasts thought the UK version was safe, although we should have seen the alarm signs. It is Kraft at whose doorstep this controversy should really be laid. It was Kraft, an awful, immoral, US behemoth, that bought Cadbury, a smiley, cottage-industry, whistle-while-you-work British chocolate-maker in a hostile takeover that created public outcry. 
 
 We should have seen the alarm signs. But we were high on Dairy Milk chocolate and and whatever it is that goes into the cream/creme that forms the centre of a Cadbury Creme Egg. We had our egg and we were eating it. We were safe, we thought, as we greedily wolfed down Creme Egg after Creme Egg, laughing maniacally. 
 
 Oh how wrong we were. 
 
 Already, this egg announcement is threatening the stability of the UK government. What havoc will this monster wreak next? 
 
 Are we really going to swallow this bad egg, America? For that is what Cadbury has wrought. A bad egg. And today will for ever be known as a bad day. 
 
 • This article was amended on 13 January 2015 to clarify the ownership of Cadbury. 
 
 ||||| Story highlights Fans of Cadbury Creme Eggs are upset about a recipe change 
 
 Cadbury Creme Eggs appear on shelves from January until Easter 
 
 American food giant Kraft acquired British-based Cadbury in 2010 
 
 (CNN) The makers of Cadbury Creme Eggs are walking on eggshells with fans of the beloved Easter treat after a recent tweak in the recipe. 
 
 The chocolate eggs, filled with a cloying "yolk" of yellow and white fondant, were originally made in the United Kingdom with Cadbury's signature Dairy Milk chocolate. 
 
 Now, under the new recipe, they're made with "a standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate," said a spokeswoman for Mondelez International, a spinoff of Kraft Foods, in a statement. Kraft acquired British candy maker Cadbury in 2010 for roughly $19 billion. 
 
 The change applies only to Cadbury eggs sold in the United Kingdom. The goo-filled eggs usually appear on shelves starting in January until April. 
 
 "We have always used a range of milk chocolate blends for different products, depending on their shape or consistency," the spokeswoman said. "The fundamentals of the Cadbury Crème Egg remain exactly the same -- delicious milk chocolate and the unique creme centre that consumers love." 
 
 However, fans aren't buying it. Some took to Twitter to vent their displeasure. 
 
 New Kraft ad campaign: Cadbury's Creme Eggs, how don't you eat yours? — David Stokes (@scottywrotem) January 12, 2015 
 
 Hey @CadburyUK! YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE JUST CANCELLED EASTER. I'M HIGHLY EMOTIONAL AND PROTECTIVE OF CHOCOLATE EGGS. — Matty Tyler (@TylerMattyJames) January 12, 2015 
 
 Thank God I was already sitting down when I heard about Cadbury's Cream Eggs. — Richard Sandling (@squat_betty) January 12, 2015 
 
 According to Cadbury, 500 million creme eggs are made each year, and about two-thirds of those are consumed in the UK. 
 
 This is not Cadbury's first controversy of 2015's creme-egg season: Fans expressed similar disappointment when the number of eggs in each pack was cut from six to five.
– It's early January, but people in the UK are apparently already munching on a lot of Cadbury Creme Eggs—and many of them aren't happy about some changes inside the foil. The Easter treats used to be made with the Dairy Milk brand of milk chocolate, but the maker admits they're now made with "a standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate" instead, CNN reports. Chocolate lovers have taken to social media to voice their outrage at both the recipe change and the company's decision to cut the number of eggs in each pack from six to five, which it says is the result of "changes in economic factors," reports USA Today. "The Creme Egg had never been called Cadbury's Dairy Milk Creme Egg. We have never played on the fact that Dairy Milk was used," a company spokesman tells the Guardian, which notes that while the recipe change won't affect the American version, the US Creme Egg is already a "wretched creature" of 1.2 ounces, compared to 1.4 ounces in Britain. The Cadbury recipe changes follow a blow to British national pride in 2010, when Kraft bought the chocolate maker in a $19 billion deal; Cadbury has since 2012 been handled by Mondelez.