Not all chocolate eggs are equal. Some are for hiding in flowerpots in the garden for children to find and scoff in a great gluttonous frenzy, others are luxury eggs made by the world’s foremost chocolatiers. These Easter eggs must be properly hidden from the kids, never to be found — frankly they are too delicious, and we don’t want to share …
1. Anya Hindmarch Easter egg
£45, anyahindmarch.com
Available in single-origin milk or dark chocolate, this cute egg conceals two other chocolate eggs, each decorated with Anya’s signature googly eyes.
2. Harvey Nichols pretzel pieces and caramel Easter egg
£34, harveynichols.com
Created by Harvey Nichols team of chocolatiers in Somerset, this milk chocolate egg has pretzel pieces and shards of caramel in the shell and comes with six salted caramel truffles on the side.
3. Egg of pralines
£67, laderach.com
A mix for those who love chocolates and chocolate eggs — the finest Swiss chocolate in the shell is decorated with crispy croquant and filled with pralines.
4. Milk chocolate and hazelnut gourmet egg
£150, uk.venchi.com
From the Italian chocolatiers at Venchi, this giant egg is filled with crunchy whole Piedmont hazelnuts.
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5. White Lotus egg
£69.99, meltchocolates.com
Fourteen wedges of seven different flavoured chocolates create a solid egg weighing more than a kilogram — from dark chocolate and raspberry to caramelised white chocolate. If you want a single flavour, Melt does coconut, strawberry or almond.
6. Booja-Booja salted caramel egg
£24.99, selfridges.com
You don’t just get salted caramel chocolate and salted caramel truffles with this luxury vegan egg — it comes in a colourful hand-painted box too.
7. Honeycomb crunch milk chocolate egg
£46, rococochocolates.com
Rococo’s egg is made with 38 per cent Ocumare Criollo cacao from Hacienda San Cristobal in Ecuador. It has ground honeycomb in the shell and is filled with chocolate-covered honeycomb pieces.
8. Claridge’s milk chocolate egg
£65, shop.claridges.com
Claridge’s elegant eggs come in milk, white or dark chocolate, all with pralines inside.
9. Turned Easter egg
£22, lechocolat-alainducasse.com
Working with the French designer Pierre Tachon, the Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse has produced an exquisite egg filled with pralines. A piece of art in milk or dark chocolate.
10. Hand-painted eggs
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£22, blowingdandelion.co.uk
Blowing Dandelion, south London’s best artisan chocolatier, specialises in gleaming marbled finishes on its chocolate eggs. Choose from single-origin Honduran milk chocolate or Ecuadorian dark chocolate.
11. Salted caramel milk chocolate egg
£29.99, art-chocolat.com
This decadent offering from the independent Sussex-based chocolate company is completely beautiful (as all its chocolates are), and comes with a surprise: once you crack into the egg you’ll find rich salted caramel in the shell. Gorgeous!
12. Unbelievably Vegan ostrich egg
£85, hotelchocolat.com
Created with Hotel Chocolat’s nut milk — plant-based and made with hazelnuts — rather than cow’s milk, this ostrich egg will be a treat for your vegan family and friends this Easter. As well as a huge chocolate egg there are 20 delicious pralines, caramels, truffles and, of course, mini chocolate eggs.
13. Praline Scotch egg
£19.50, fortnumandmason.com
Simnel cake-flavoured praline with an orange ganache centre and rolled in hazelnut and cocoa nibs — Fortnum’s brings the fun once again this Easter.
