Product Details. It's the candy you've been waiting for all year! Each individually-wrapped REESE'S Peanut Butter Egg is an egg-cellent combination of smooth peanut butter and rich milk chocolate. Fill their Easter baskets and your candy dishes with everyone's favorite egg.

REESE'S CUP BUTTER INGREDIENTS: PEANUTS, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, SALT, TBHQ & CITRIC ACID (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS).

The ingenious flavor combination in each of these treats can be traced back to 1928, when H.B. Reese, an employee of The Hershey Company, created REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups in his basement. The Hershey Company supplied Reese with the chocolate coating for his candy and eventually purchased his business in 1963.

1967 To get the inside scoop, we went right to the sweet source: The Hershey Company. Katie Morris, a spokesperson for Hershey, shares that Reese's Holiday Shapes have been a fan favorite since their launch with eggs in 1967, through the decades and into 2022 when the football shape kicked off.

The phenomenon has long been theorized upon, from TikTok videos to Quora threads, with many speculating on the cause for the seasonal Reese's commotion. One widely accepted theory claims that the ratio of chocolate to peanut butter differs from that of the typical cups.

The Hershey Company Reese's Peanut Butter Egg 1.2 oz. is a popular candy product made by The Hershey Company. It is a seasonal Easter version of the classic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup candy, shaped like an egg. The Reese's Peanut Butter Egg 1.2 oz. consists of a milk chocolate shell filled with creamy peanut butter filling.

Hershey, Pa REESE'S Chocolates is the number one candy brand in the United States and the biggest confectionery brand in the whole world… yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

There is no standard of identity peanut butter in a regular Reese cup. Their centers are course ground peanuts not finely ground peanuts and they use sugar and dextrose in the center at a higher level than peanut butter allows.

History. The H.B. Reese Candy Company was established in 1923 by H. B. Reese in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The official product name was "Penny Cups" because they could be purchased for one cent.

8 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Reese's

• Harry Burnett Reese's First Attempt in the Candy Business was a Total Fail.
• Reese's Second (and Wildly More Successful) Shot at the Candy Business Began in His Basement.
• You Can Purchase Half-Pound Reese's Cups.
• E.T. Was Supposed to be Eating M&Ms, Not Reese's Pieces.

The peanut butter to chocolate ratio People like Reese's because they combine two good things that are also good together: peanut butter and chocolate.

Unlike, say, Nerds or Pixy Stix, Reese's are more than straight sugar - there's saltiness and depth to the peanut butter that balances out the sweetness (that's what we in the food biz call “nuance”).

Hershey, Pa That's right – Direct from the Factory to your mouth just days after being made. REESE'S Chocolates is the number one candy brand in the United States and the biggest confectionery brand in the whole world… yet we can almost smell the peanut-buttery deliciousness being created just down the road here in Hershey, Pa.

Today, Reese's makes enough peanut cups each year to feed one cup to every person in the USA, Japan, Europe, Australia, China, Africa and India! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are made in Hershey, PA, Stuarts Draft, WV and in Monterrey, MX.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented by Hershey's employee and father of 16 H.B. Reese in 1928. For the past 91 years, they've been the standard for all things peanut butter and chocolate. Not surprisingly, as the original, they're still the bestselling Reese's product.