A box of hollow, foil wrapped egg sized Easter eggs from Hotel Chocolat.
50 milk chocolate eggs, each egg is 4cm x 6cm, about the same size as a normal egg, perfect for your own Easter Egg hunts, Easter weekend events, Easter chocolate gifts and goodie bags.
Made from smooth, quality, milk chocolate and individually wrapped in silver foil, featuring the Hotel Chocolat cocoa pod design.
£30.00, 50 eggs.
Labelled: Vegetarian, Nut Free, Alcohol Free and Gluten Free.
Six foil wrapped mini chocolate duck eggs handmade in Purbeck, Dorset, presented in a choice of brightly coloured real egg boxes.
The eggs are about the size of a standard chicken egg and weigh 30g each.
Cast in milk chocolate the adorable eggs have a second coating of chocolate on top, this not only gives the outside of the eggs a swirling marbled pattern, but also extra texture. As you bite through the chocolate you have the crisper crunch of the outer layer along with the snap of the milk chocolate shell – subtle but very adds to the enjoyment.
Hidden inside each of the Chococo mini Dorset duck eggs is a, very cute, solid chocolate duck in a selection of white, dark and milk chocolate. These chunky chocolates are “studded” to the inside and almost fill one half of the shell.
I personally think these would make wonderful alternative, to a standard Easter egg, for kids. Not only do you have a choice of a pink and blue box, but also you can get them in dark chocolate version, exactly the same eggs, the same choices and sizes – but dairy free! So if you have one child who is dairy intolerant and one who isn’t they can have almost the same chocolate for Easter.
Fun and very appealing quality chocolate, which has been well designed and executed – a firm favourite of mine!
£11.95, 180g.
The Eggsibitionist™ extra thick Easter Egg from Hotel Chocolat, two chunky milk chocolate half shells filled with a selection of, hand decorated, chocolate mini eggs.
Made from a special 40% cocoa milk chocolate blend, the extra thick shells are three times thicker that normal eggs, each half is wrapped in foil and hiding inside the egg is a selection of filled mini eggs, the same gorgeous filled mini eggs that are in the Easter H-box, but with a few different flavours.
The egg is approximately 147mm high and weighs a hefty 410g, presented in a designer box the Hotel Chocolat’s Extra Thick Easter Eggs are at the luxury end of the Easter eggs available this year and make very impressive gifts.
£22.00, approximately 410g of rather chucky milk chocolate with truffles.
Labelled: Vegetarian, Alcohol Free and Gluten Free.
The National Trust and the National Trust for Scotland supported by Cadbury, have opened the National Trust properties for the 3rd year running to hold the Easter Egg Trails and other fun Easter weekend activities.
The Easter Egg Hunts are held all over the UK, find your local trail, and each venue has different events, including face painting, egg rolling and Easter egg decorating, all depending on where you go.
You can also take part online at Debenhams, with a chance to win hamper of Cadbury goodies, all you have to do is find the Easter eggs hidden on the Debenhams site.
Design your own Egghead, Cadbury are giving trail participants the chance to design an Egghead, and the winning entry may even be made and available on shelves for Easter 2011!
All you need to do is visit your local trail and pick up an entry form
From 10,260 entries, Catriona aged 12 from Scotland designed the winning entry seen here.
Cadbury Treasure Eggs, foil wrapped hollow eggs with two filled mini chocolate eggs inside.
Inside each egg is the “treasure”, two chocolate mini eggs; the Dairy Milk egg as two solid eggs inside, the Caramel egg two mini Caramel eggs and the Mini Eggs egg two large mini eggs – large compared to the Mini Eggs in a bag.
The eggs inside are quite small, less than half the size of a Cadbury Creme Egg, but not too disappointing given how cheap they are.
These eggs, from Cadbury Gifts Direct, are sold in bulk – eight treasure egg in a tray. That works out at £1.85 per Easter Egg, quite economical really, especially if you are buying a lot. You can also buy them in two supermarkets that I know of; Tesco and Asda, you can compare the prices on mysupermarket.
Each egg is approximately 135mm tall and 80mm wide, so they are a good size for Easter Egg Hunts or treats for kids.
£14.80, eight cheap Easter eggs in bulk, 142g each.
Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.
Fifteen, Hotel Chocolat, filled chocolate mini eggs presented as a selection box, a great alternative to an Easter egg or as a gift to share.
The luxury mini eggs have crisp outer shells made of dark, white and milk chocolate, and are filled with a gorgeous selection of smooth centres, just like egg-shaped chocolate truffles.
On the ends of the eggs are bright dots of colour, chocolate coloured with natural colouring, which correspond to the menu card tucked into the back of the box.
The Easter H-box has fifteen of the cute little eggs, in seven different flavours:
You get two of each flavour and three of one, because of the odd number in the box. I had three of the Milk Praline eggs, which I was very happy about as they are one of my favourites, along with the Banana Split, Dark Praline and Berry Mousse.
All of the eggs are very moreish, but you can get refills! Each of the flavours are available in 100g pots – but only from the shops, you can find your nearest Hotel Chocolat shop on their website – www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/stores.
Ideal for Easter – or a treat!
£11.00, 185g.
Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.
Well he is actually called Chef Marshall Easter Egg Head or “Make Your Own Easter Egg”, but either way it is Mr Potato Head as an Easter egg.
This has been hugely popular over the past few last years, I know at least four of my friends bought them for their children – well that’s what they said, I have a sneaking suspicion they bought them to play with too. And this year he has had a make over.
A new design for this year, the Chef Marshall Easter Egg Head is a milk chocolate egg that comes with a moustache, nice, eyes and big eyes to stick on with the “chocolate goo”, that you warm up in warm water.
I think the Chef Marshall / Mr Potato Head egg is made especially for John Lewis as I have not seen him anywhere else; you can buy it online from the Easter Gifts & Food section of their website.
300g of fun milk chocolate for £12.00.
Adventure in Easter chocolate with a wide selection of Easter Eggs, Easter chocolate and a bottle of Prosecco from the Hotel Chocolat Easter range, presented in a chic hamper, idea for sharing or giving as a very generous gift.
The Adventure Easter Hamper is from the Room Service hampers range, luxury chocolate hampers for all occasions ranging from £50 to £500, with limited and special edition Easter chocolates alongside a bottle of Prosecco, a dry sparkling white wine.
The hamper contains:
Three Easter Eggs: (well two and a half)
Three Easter Chocolate Boxes
Two Chocolate Treats
A selection of milk, dark and white chocolate in a luxury chocolate hamper for Easter.
£100.00.
Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.
You never know when you might need forty-five Cadbury Easter Eggs! And if you do know when you might need a lot of chocolate eggs, then the Cadbury Easter Egg, medium sized egg, assortment could be just what you are looking for.
Bulk buying Easter eggs is an economical way to get Easter eggs even cheaper, you don’t even need to be a company or organisation to buy them you can group together with friends or family and still get the discount, and as these are the most popular varieties of the Cadbury Easter Eggs, everyone will be happy.
The assortment contains a selection of Cadbury Mini Eggs Egg, Dairy Milk Buttons Egg, Cadbury Flake Egg, Dairy Milk Caramel Egg and Crunchie Egg. You can ask for specific eggs, but they can’t guarantee what you will get – so it’s a kind of lucky Easter egg dip! All are the medium sized boxed eggs from Cadbury.
The price is for 45 Cadbury eggs, thats works out as £2.94 each or £2.50 +VAT, they are great for promotions, giveaways or even an Easter Egg hunt, depending on the weather over the Bank Holiday Weekend.
£132.21, for 45 medium sized Cadbury Easter Eggs.
The Thorntons “No Added Sugar” Diabetic Easter Egg comes with a bag of diabetic chocolate mini eggs in foil and Happy Easter engraved into the chocolate on the front. The style and design of the Easter egg box means this egg can be for all age ranges.
£6.50 225g of milk chocolate, Easter egg and diabetic mini eggs.
Labelled: Diabetic, Vegetarian and Gluten Free.
Thorntons also have a rather large diabetic chocolate range: Thorntons No Added Sugar Chocolate Collection
Now, there is some debate about diabetic Easter eggs, well diabetic chocolate in general. Some say there is no need for diabetic chocolate, as limiting the amount of chocolate consumed has the same effect. The problem seems to be two fold; firstly that sugar in diabetic chocolate is replaced with nutritive sweeteners, in this case polyols. Guidelines state that you should have no more than 20g per day, some diabetic chocolate contains a lot more – I don’t know the exact amount in the Thorntons Diabetic Egg and secondly that people assume that items labelled ‘diabetic’ will be suitable for all diabetics and provide some benefit.
Whilst I totally agree that it can be confusing and unclear as to what you can and cannot eat as a diabetic and the term used as a label can be misleading, the range is now called “No Added Sugar Diabetic”. All the offered alternatives to diabetic chocolate seem to be small amounts of high cocoa content dark chocolate; my problem is that not everyone likes dark chocolate.
So if you do decide to treat yourself to a Thorntons Diabetic Easter Egg or buy one for someone please read the label and if you don’t understand it ask someone who does.
Further reading:
Cadbury have a great selection of Creme Eggs gift sets, including the Giant Creme Egg Easter Egg is the largest egg from the Cadbury Easter Eggs range.
The gooiest chocolate egg – the Creme Egg from Cadbury, release the Goo!
The Giant Creme Egg Easter Egg is a large hollow milk chocolate shell alongside a box of six creme eggs.
£10.50, 529g Giant Easter Egg and 6 Creme Eggs.
The fondant filled chocolate eggs are even more popular today, since they were first introduced in 1971, having reached iconic status in the past few years with some fantastic ad campaigns. Cadbury Creme Eggs even have a “season”, from the 1st of January until Easter, the 4th of April.
The Creme Egg site is filled with fun things, you can win “Gooey” prizes, play games, download iPhone apps (when they are ready) and even join become a fan on Facebook!
Creme Egg Easter Eggs come in a number of sizes, the medium egg is part of the Creme Egg Cup Set and comes with two filled eggs and a bag of mini eggs and two branded ceramic egg cups.
The Creme Egg Passion is a great gift idea and the small egg included alongside two Creme Egg mugs, a tube and a bag of mini eggs and a Cadbury Creme Egg 6 pack.
£8.00, Creme Egg Cup Set. – £12.50, Creme Egg Passion.
If you are like me then just one Creme Egg is never enough, luckily you can buy the Goo filled eggs in bulk.
The Creme Egg Gift Pack is a specially designed gift box stuffed with eight little boxes of three eggs – that twenty for Creme Eggs in total and you get an egg cup too!
And if you need more than that, you can get a box of forty eight eggs. Just like the boxes they have in the sweet shops.
£12.50, Gift Pack. – £21.00, Creme Egg 48 Box.
All of the Creme Egg gifts sets are available from the Cadbury Gifts Direct site, they even have a special Creme Egg page, here and are labelled vegetarian and gluten free.
Hotel Chocolat has released a sneak preview of their wonderful chocolate Easter eggs for 2010, available from the 15th of February – but you can order them now and they will deliver them when they are in stock. So you can beat the rush and make sure you get the Easter egg you want before they all sell out.
The 2010 Easter Eggs from Hotel Chocolat have been given a fun and colourful makeover. Last years Cocoa Pod egg has been replaced with new Scrambled Eggs, but the rest of Hotel Chocolat Easter eggs, happily, remain the same.
The two largest Easter eggs are the gigantic Ostrich eggs, thick chocolate shells with a two layer selection box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates.
They are £60.00 each, both well over one kilo in weight and are very impressive, they make great gifts for a couple or family as they are so large.
Extra thick milk chocolate and dark chocolate Easter eggs, two chunky shell halves filled with a selection of Easter chocolate treats.
Each chunky egg is £22.00 and with five to choose from, everyone will have a favourite.
New for 2010, Scrambled Eggs, very creative and stylish little chocolate Easter eggs along side six matching chocolates in a display box.
Each egg is colourfully decorated, using natural colouring, with scrambled swirls making every egg unique. Five to choose from, £15.00 each.
Hotel Chocolat’s flavoured Easter eggs, the Egg Sandwiches. Two slabs of flavoured chocolate sandwiched between to egg halves.
These cute eggs are £7.00 each, or any combination of four Egg Sandwiches for £24.00.
These are just the Easter Eggs from Hotel Chocolat’s Easter chocolate range, easily the best and largest chocolate selection for Easter.
Easter 2010 is Sunday the 4th of April.
Easter Day, as it is also known, always falls on a Sunday, but the date does change; Easter can fall between March 22nd and April 25th, this is because the actual date worked out by the phases of the moon and the solar year, this is called the lunisolar calendar.
The way it is worked out is very complex, and totally beyond me, but if you are interested you can find all the information on wikipedia – Easter#Date_of_Easter, if you can make sense of it please do let me know.
| Year | Easter Sunday |
|---|---|
| 2010 | April 4th |
| 2011 | April 24th |
| 2012 | April 8th |
| 2013 | March 31st |
| 2014 | April 20th |
| 2015 | April 5th |
Easter is probably the most celebrated “chocolate” day, Easter Eggs, chocolate Easter bunnies and novelty Easter chocolate. But there are other days that be, and are, enjoyed with chocolate.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Valentine’s Day | February 14th 2010, and every year. |
| Mother’s Day | March 14th 2010, fourth Sunday in Lent |
| Father’s Day | June 20th 2010, third Sunday of June |
Any excuse for chocolate!
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