Charlie Dunne, 18, from Aylesbury finds white creme egg

Charlie Dunne, 18, was on his way to a night out when he picked up the white creme egg

One lucky teenager has scooped up a rare white Creme Egg and a hefty cash prize while he’s still studying.

Charlie Dunne, 18, from Aylesbury was on the way to a night out in Oxford with his friends when he stopped the taxi to nip into a a nearby co-op to pick up some sweet treats for the journey.

The student, who has a weekend job working at Tesco, was over the moon to discover that the chocolate treat was one of Cadbury’s winning Creme Eggs, meaning he’d scooped up £200 and a rare taste of white chocolate treat.

Speaking to the MailOnline, Charlie said he was hoping to save the money or ‘put it towards a party holiday’ such as Magaluf in Majorca or Ayia Napa in Cyprus in the summer before he starts University.

‘It really made my night out’ Charlie said. ‘It meant I had a better, and more expensive, night! I spent about £100 more than I usually would.’

Charlie hopes to go to Birmingham City University and study for a BA in Horology – the craft of making watches, but for now is enjoying his final year of a-levels.

The teenager found the creme egg on Friday night but has not yet claimed the prize as Cadbury’s customer services is closed over the weekend.

Charlie snapped a picture in the back of a taxi with the Creme Egg on his way to a night out in Oxford

Charlie ate the egg straight away after snapping a picture of it.

‘I was pretty tipsy and didn’t think to savour it’ he admitted. ‘It was delicious, much nicer than an normal creme egg, I’d buy it way more often if it was sold regularly.’

‘I’d seen the MailOnline article about the special creme eggs so I knew they were out there, but it was a one in a million chance so I didn’t ever expect to find one – I know there’s very few of them’ he added.

Earlier this week a Luton nursery manager became the first person to unwrap one of Cadbury’s sought-after white Creme Eggs.

Natasha Bream, 30, purchased three Creme Eggs while on her lunch break from a Tesco Express in the town and scooped up £1,000 in prize money.

She told MailOnline she was: ‘Very excited – and a little shocked. It was quite bizarre as we had just been talking about it at work so we knew what it meant.’

Luton nursery manager Natasha Bream (left) was shocked to unwrap one of Cadbury’s coveted white Creme Eggs, which is worth £1,000. Student Charlie Dunne (right) scooped up £200 prize after being a Creme Egg in Ayslebury

While the white chocolate goodies appear to be identical on the outside to the classic milk chocolate goods, eagle-eyed chocolate fans have discovered a sneaky way to find out if they’ve got a special edition white chocolate Creme Egg, without even taking off the wrapper.

Lucky buyers could be in with a chance of winning up to £2,000 and, thanks to a sneaky find, can now tell if they’ve got the special egg by just looking at the ingredients list.

The list, on the back of every Creme Egg, usually includes milk chocolate as an ingredient.

The limited edition goodies were revealed by Cadbury’s last week with 350 to 400 white chocolate eggs hidden in normal Creme Egg wrappers

However, the special version replaces the milk chocolate with white chocolate.

The news of the trick will be a relief to supermarkets and shoppers all over the country after Creme Eggs everywhere were hit by eager hunters.

Shoppers took to Twitter to share photos of Creme Eggs that had been opened and then put back in the hunt for the elusive white eggs.

The special promotion, which delighted fans, is reminiscent of Willy Wonka and his five golden tickets hidden in chocolate bars in the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

There are 500 million Creme Eggs produced a year and about 333 million of those are sold in the UK, meaning shoppers will have about a 1 in 850,000 chance of winning a prize.

Shoppers from all over the country have been sharing pictures online of apparently tampered with Cadbury Creme Eggs

Shoppers across the country have shared pictures of the Creme Eggs on social media, saying people are unwrapping sweets in the store in the hope of winning a white chocolate treat

Paul Lang said he initially thought there was a production problem with the Creme Eggs, but later realised it was due to people searching for the £2000 prize

How can you get your hands on a winning Creme Egg?

There are believed to be 371 winning Creme Eggs on the shelves across the country.

Cadbury have distributed 34 eggs each worth £1,000 in prize money, while one is worth a staggering £2,000.

As the white chocolate treats have the same packaging as the classic Cadbury treat it’s impossible for shoppers to know if they’ve won until they’ve unwrapped them.

The eggs could be hidden inside single wrapped eggs, which have an RRP of 58p, or in five packs which cost £2.85.

Co-op also has 90 more winning eggs which will let lucky shoppers take home £200.

There are 14 eggs worth £1,000 in branches of Sainsbury’s and 84 worth £100. There will be one winning egg worth £1,000 a week from the 14 weeks from the start of the year until April 1 when the eggs come off the shelves.

Tesco have a total of 7 eggs worth £1,000 and 84 more worth £100.

Independent retailers – such as corner shops – have 13 winning eggs on their shelves worth £1,000 and 78 more worth £100. One egg worth £1,000 will be put in an Independent shop somewhere in mainland UK over 13 weeks.

There are 500 million Creme Eggs produced a year and about 333 million of those are sold in the UK, meaning shoppers will have about a 1 in 850,000 chance of winning a prize.

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