Zitner’s Butter Krak is coming back!

💌 Love Philly? So do we. Let’s be friends. Sign up for the Billy Penn newsletter today. “We are back,” Zitner’s triumphantly posted to Instagram yesterday. Last Easter, Philly’s beloved chocolate eggs were suspiciously missing from the shelves. Billy Penn checked Acme, Giant, Wawa and Target to no avail. There were no Butter Krak Eggs, no Peanut Butter Eggs, no Coconut Cream Eggs — nothing. “I’ve tried my hardest not to be here,” CEO and President of Zitner’s Candy, Evan Prochniak told BP at the time. “But just, you know — timing, timing, timing.” Fortunately, the Zitner’s shortage is coming to an end. After facing unexpected hurdles during their move to a new factory location, the company is back up and running, producing candy eggs in Hatfield, Montgomery County. The inside of a Zitner s Butter Krak Egg Credit: Emily Wren for Zitner s “We are really humming now,” Prochniak told the Inquirer’s Michael Klein. “There were a lot of little odds and ends that I twea