Hershey to Change Back to Classic Reeses Recipes

Packets of Reese’s peanut butter cups, a Hershey product, are displayed at a gas station in Phoenix on Oct. 27, 2011. Joshua Lott/ReutersThe Hershey Company announced Wednesday it will opt to go back to its original recipes for every Reese’s product starting in 2027, coming after it quietly shifted to using less chocolate on specific candies and resulting in criticism from Brad Reese, the grandson of Reese’s inventor.The candy behemoth, which is based in Pennsylvania, revealed that the change impacts products including mini Easter eggs, which are currently made with a compound coating that features less chocolate.