Take your Easter festivities to the next chocolatey level.
Good Friday is next Friday 2nd April but after the year we’ve had, we think we deserve to gorge on as many Easter eggs as our newly invested loungewear will allow. And Easter is all about eating and not really fashion as such.
This year, it’s all about treating ourselves and if that means your version of self-care is cracking into a smooth, melting chocolate shell adorned with an array of mouth-wateringly delicious toppings – then we are here to support you. It’s in the name of Easter, after all.
We are looking at the most extravagant offerings to date with new luxurious varieties of white, milk, dark and even blonde and ruby to suit even the pickiest of chocolate connoisseurs.
We go from expensive, mid-range and cheap but all LUXURY – no Cadburys Cream Eggs or Terrys Chocolate Orange eggs in this selction.
The Selfridges Easter Egg
At luxury department store Selfridges, there is a nod to sustainability, as they have partnered up with Chocolarder and have used ethically sourced cacao from the Dominican Republic and sugar cane from the green harvest project in Brazil to craft the chocolaty treats. The Almond Nougatine is made from almonds wind sailed from Spain, while the Honeycomb iteration benefits from the delicious honey from beekeeper Matt Pitt’s Cornish Black Bees. The packaging is also plastic-free.
Rococo Ruby Chocolate Egg
It’s hard to believe that it was only in 2017 that ruby chocolate (dubbed the “fourth” variety after dark, milk and white) entered our lives and now it’s everywhere. Rococo has transformed the pink chocolate into an egg with chocolate-coated raspberries to go alongside it. Fruity and delicious.
£29.99 | Selfridges
Venchi 1878 Chocaviar Latte Gourmet Easter Egg
Imagine a Fabergé that opens to reveal a chocolatey surprise – this is Venchi’s Chocaviar. The name comes from the pearl-like granules that make up the interior of the egg and resemble caviar.
Prestat Dark Chocolate Easter Egg with Dark Chocolate Truffles
Royal Warrant Holder Prestat make chocolates for Queen Elizabeth herself and so to truly indulge this Easter, you can’t go wrong. It’s the Dark Chocolate egg that has our taste buds tingling this year, presented alongside chocolate truffles.
Hotel Chocolat Rocky Road to Caramel Extra-Thick Egg
Hotel Chocolat’s seasonal offering is one of the best out there and you’ll be hard-pressed to choose an egg from here. The Rocky Road to Caramel is part of the brand’s satisfying extra-thick collection where they have doubled down on the typical casing adding even more indulgent chocolate. It has a solid caramel chocolate shell with hints of dulce de leche, creamy milk chocolate, cookies and puffed rice. Inside, you’ll be delighted to find a mix of truffles, pralines and caramels. Luxury lovers will also swoon after the brand’s Champagne flavour chocolate.
Cocoa & Co. Chocolate Egg
Luxury chocolate lovers, you’re in for a treat. Sainsbury’s Cocoa & Co range has not one but three new additions to its range. The first, the Belgian Milk Chocolate Easter Egg has a shimmering gold stripe adornment. You will also find the Single Origin Dark Chocolate with a smooth and rich flavour. Most show-stopping of all, the Single Origin Dark Chocolate Shimmer Egg will certainly be winning style points with an elegant gold lustre look.
Aldi Chocolate Easter Eggs
Proving that “luxury” doesn’t always equate to “expensive”, budget supermarket Aldi is here to delight chocolate fans everywhere with its premium Moser Roth Geo and Ripple Eggs. Crafted from Fairtrade chocolate, there are a variety of flavours; Ruby, Blonde, Dark Chocolate & Orange, Belgian Milk Chocolate, Crunchy Salted Caramel and Belgian White Chocolate & Forrest Fruit. If you can’t choose just one, the brand’s Duo Eggs have you covered with a half-half approach combining white, milk or dark chocolate.
And finally (as we’re still in lockdown this Easter and if you have lots of kiddies in the family who want their own Easter egg hunt at home) and are looking at a more cost effective way to spread the pennies and chocolate further this Easter – here’s my ‘home-made Easter Egg’ hack.
Melt as many chocolate bars as you wish – Aldi sell their ‘own brand’ big bars of white, dark or milk chocolate as a ‘daily essential’ because they know we all need a regular stock and they’re literally only 30p. Genius.
You’ll need a few empty Kinder Egg packet halves to use as moulds.
Spoon the melted chocolate into the moulds ensuring a smooth coating of the shell and leave to stand on a foil covered tray. Wack them in the fridge for an hour then take them out and fill the shells with anything you like from chocolate buttons, smarties or even yummy jelly babies. Or my fave – Haribo cherries.
Use a little more melted chocolate to paste and seal the shell halves together then replace them in the fridge. Voila, an hour later you have a huge array of your own custom made eggs to fill a basket and create your own Easter egg hunt at home for a fraction of the price.
