The chocolate part of the Easter weekend may not be over…
Hotel Chocolat has a half price sale on Easter eggs and Easter chocolate.
The perfect way to try the eggs you wanted but didn’t get or to get more of the chocolate you loved.
Hotel Chocolat has a commitment to freshness so the chocolate and chocolate Easter eggs have a shorter shelf live than most other chocolate – so they have to sell it.
You can see all the sale items here.
A fun milk chocolate Easter egg, hand decorated on the outside, studded with chocolate beans and popping candy on the inside, the fantastic Crackletastic Egg from Chococo.
The egg shell is decorated with stripes of white chocolate; in grouped parallel lines in a similar layout to the Union Jack and where the lines cross over in the centre of the egg, both front and back, there is a milk chocolate button decorated with a star pattern, the domed side of the button is attached to the egg and the patterned flat side is on show.
Chococo have used a blend of Criollo and Trinitario cocoa beans to create a wonderful, 43% cocoa, milk chocolate with a beautifully rich flavour, you really feel like you have eaten good chocolate!
The chocolate beans inside add a splash of colour, and some extra texture to the chocolate but the real star is the popping candy. It pops and cracks as you bite through it and gentle fizzes away while you enjoy the chocolate.
If you have never tried popping candy in an Easter egg, or in chocolate for that matter, try this egg! Space Dust, Cosmic Dust, Pop Rocks, Fizz Wiz and other popping candy brands are flavoured or flavour enhanced, the popping candy Chococo use is flavour neutral, so it does not affect the delicious chocolate, it just adds some fun.
The Crackletastic Egg is an updated version of the Chococo’s Fizzing Fun Easter Egg, the chocolate has more cocoa content, up 2% from 41% to 43%, which gives the milk chocolate more flavour. The outside of the egg is a little more unisex, making it ideal for boys or girls, and I personally think it has more popping candy inside.
All Chococo Easter eggs are made in England, the chocolate beans use natural flavours, the star pattern is of course edible and the chocolate, in this egg, is made with cocoa beans from Venezuela.
Great chocolate with a good flavour and a fun side, really worth trying.
£12.95 inc P&P, 175g, from Chococo in Dorset.
Well technically it is Hotel Chocolat’s biggest Easter egg and it is one of two massive Ostrich Eggs, so it is in fact Hotel Chocolat’s biggest milk chocolate Easter egg. Either way it is huge!
Previously known as The Rocky Road to Caramellow Ostrich Egg and the giant MILK Ostrich egg, this year it is “The Classic Ostrich Easter Egg” and it is just as big and tempting.
This egg is one of the two extra large Easter eggs from the Hotel Chocolat Easter range, these immense Easter eggs, measure 285mm tall (that’s just under eleven inches, in old money) and are called Ostrich Easter eggs because they are about the size and weight of real Ostrich eggs!
The Classic Ostrich Easter Egg has two chunky chocolate shell halves, both made from 40% cocoa milk chocolate, the egg halves are then covered with more chocolate chunks, puffed rice crispies, cookie pieces and chunks of white chocolate, and the covered in more chocolate and decorated.
This big Easter egg also comes with a selection of twenty-one chocolates inside the egg box; presented as a layer of chocolates, like you would get in a round chocolate box, in ten different flavours.
All of these chocolates are from Hotel Chocolat Selectors range, so if you have a favourite you can buy more.
Alongside the two giant egg halves and the selection of chocolates are six, gold foiled, mini eggs, bringing the weight of the egg up to very impressive 1.1kg.
Stylishly presented in a round hatbox style box, with a hand tied ribbon – this really is a chocolate Easter egg to excite.
£70.00, 1.1kg of luxury chocolates from Hotel Chocolat.
Labelled: Vegetarian.
The Butterfly Egg, a rather exquisite and beautifully “painted” chocolate Easter egg by chocolatier and chocolate artist Paul Wayne Gregory.
The egg is displayed clear box with a minimal design, two bold pink bands top and bottom, so you can see the beautiful egg inside from almost every angle.
The shell of the egg is used as canvas for a colourful spring meadow scene; with blues skies, white clouds and an orange butterfly flying over the fields, which gives the Easter egg its name, and the egg also has its own plinth so it stands up by itself, which is also made of chocolate.
Normally with chocolate eggs I have to resist the urge to smash or break them open to sample the chocolate, but this egg is a little different I actually felt bad about spoiling it. But it did open with a very good pop….
The chocolate is comparatively quite thick; it is actually two layers of chocolate one on top of the other. The Paul Wayne Gregory Butterfly Easter egg is available in dark and milk chocolate, and I didn’t know which I had until I cracked it open, this is a milk chocolate egg as it turns out.
Once the egg is cracked open, the wonderful aromas inside are released.
Having never tried, any, of Paul Wayne Gregory’s previously I was a little worried the egg might be all art and no cocoa, but I am very, very pleased to proven wrong. The chocolate has a good cocoa flavour, 38% cocoa, without being over powering and the taste is rather superb, mellow in the mouth but with a good strength behind it, beautifully smooth and not overly sweet, incredibly moreish.
In fact I have to say this is probably the best, unflavoured, milk chocolate I have tried this year.
A must try Easter egg for chocolate lovers and connoisseurs, and if the design does not appeal there are three more eggs, also in dark or milk chocolate, and a milk chocolate Easter egg flavoured with mango available from Paul Wayne Gregory’s online shop.
£24.95, 320g of British chocolate art on excellent milk chocolate.
Lindt are probably better known for their novelty chocolates, the Lindt Gold Bunny at Easter and the gold animals at Christmas, and Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles, but they also make other chocolates and it is nice to see this reflected by their new Easter egg the Heavenly Hazelnut Egg.
The Lindt Heavenly Hazelnut Egg is one of three Easter eggs which have been added to the Lindt range for Easter 2013.
The Lindt Heavenly Hazelnut Easter Egg is now the largest egg in the range, measuring approximately 160mm tall and 120mm wide, and is presented in a bright yellow box with windows so you can see the ribbon tied egg inside. A milk chocolate egg is rolled in crushed hazelnuts and covered in another layer of chocolate to create, a rather beautiful looking, luxury Easter egg.
A heavenly smooth milk chocolate egg, encrusted with roasted Piedmont hazelnuts then generously coated with a final chocolate layer to create [Lindt's] thickest, most decadent Easter Egg yet.
Even though the Lindt Heavenly Hazelnut Easter egg is new for 2013 it has already been approved by Good Housekeeping Institute, with a score of 84/100 ranking it second out of 193 eggs!
£19.99, 350g of luxury Lindt Eater egg, available from The Chocolate Trading Company.
The biggest of the Lindt Lindor Easter Eggs is the Luxury Lindt Egg, a milk chocolate egg in wrapped gold foil with a red ribbon round the egg and nine Lindt Lindor mini eggs, presented in a red box.
Also new for Easter 2013 is the Limited Edition Lindor Egg, a gold foiled milk chocolate egg with Lindt Lindor balls in classic milk, Irish Cream flavour & Stracciatella. The Limited Edition Lindt Lindor egg is the only Lindt Lindor egg in a green box.
The two smaller Lindt Lindor eggs both have milk chocolate eggs, in gold foil, and a selection of Lindt Lindor mini eggs in the box. The gold Lindt Lindor Easter Egg has an assorted selection chocolate eggs and the red Lindt Lindor Easter Egg has milk chocolate mini eggs.
There are two Lindt Gold Bunny Eggs, both with a milk chocolate eggs and mini Lindt Gold Bunnies.
The Luxury Gold Bunny Egg has two small Lindt Gold Bunnies, both with ribbons and bells round their necks, £10.29 for 260g from The Chocolate Trading Company.
And the Gold Bunny Egg has three mini Lindt Gold Bunnies, £5.99 for 125g from Selfridges.
Another new Lindt Easter egg for 2013 is the Egg & Chick Easter egg.
A gold foiled egg with a cute foil wrapped chick, both made from Lindt milk chocolate. The egg and chick are presented in a tented box, which is colourfully decorated for Easter, and they both stick out of the packing slightly from cut out holes.
Lindt’s Easter Fun Egg & Chick egg is £4.49 from The Chocolate Trading Company, 105g.
Lindt Easter eggs from large to small, made with Belgian chocolate from Lindt’s Master Chocolatier.
In summary:
An extra thick dark chocolate Easter egg with a selection of, high cocoa content, dark chocolate mini eggs, the Rabot 1745 ‘The Connoisseur’ extra thick dark chocolate Easter egg from Hotel Chocolat.
New for Easter 2013, the ‘The Connoisseur’ egg is cast in dark chocolate from the Rabot 1745 collection; a collection of chocolates, mainly chocolate bars, which use and celebrate rare cocoa from around the world to create pure chocolate. Hotel Chocolat’s Rabot 1745 range replaced the Purist range.
The extra thick dark chocolate Easter egg is one of seven Extra Thick Chocolate Easter Eggs from Hotel Chocolat’s Easter range. One half of the extra thick shell is made from 82% cocoa dark chocolate from Ecuador and the other half from 66% cocoa dark chocolate from Madagascar.
Inside the egg is a selection of Hotel Chocolat Egglets, mini egg shaped chocolates, twelve dark chocolate eggs in four different flavours:
Presented in a round, black and gold, ribbon tied, hat box style box. A perfect Easter egg for high cocoa content chocolate lovers.
£30.00, 390g of dark chocolate from Hotel Chocolat.
Labelled: Vegetarian and Alcohol Free.
A milk chocolate Easter egg from the Highlands of Scotland, handmade from organic chocolate, hand decorated and presented in a mountain shaped box!
cocoa mountain are an award winner chocolatier, with two cafes in Balnakeil and Auchterarder, and their 2013 Easter range has seven Easter eggs in total, this is one of three hand-decorated eggs, the organic milk Easter egg.
All of the hand-decorated eggs have different designs in an assortment of stripes, dots, splats and lines, so each egg is individual and because they are decorated by hand they are also unique. Mine had white chocolate diagonal stripes on the bottom half of the egg, which contrasts well with the milk chocolate shell.
The chocolate itself has the satisfying snap when you break it and a unique and interesting flavour, quite sweet with hint of nuts, and a sharpness I can’t quite but my finger on, the aftertaste is fascinating – like you have just drunk hot chocolate, warm yet sweet.
All of the Easter eggs from cocoa mountain are presented in pyramid style boxes, three sided pyramids called tetrahedra, with windows in the front so you can see the eggs inside.
The other two hand-decorated eggs are the dark chocolate, Hand-decorated Organic Dark Chocolate Easter eggs, and the white chocolate, Hand-decorated Organic White Chocolate Easter eggs.
cocoa mountain Easter eggs are sold in pairs or fours, the prices include UK postage and packaging.
£12.00 for two 85g eggs, available from cocoa mountain.
Labelled: Organic and Vegetarian.
A treat for a Maltesers lover a luxury Malteaster egg! A hollow milk chocolate egg with four cute Maltesers Malteaster bunnies, with big ears.
The “Malteaster” egg Maltesers at Easter.
The Maltesers you know and adore reshaped into cute Malteaster Bunnies with a standard milk chocolate Easter egg, hollow and foil wrapped.
The bunnies have the same crunchy centre as Maltesers with the same chocolate round the outside, but the bunnies are larger and the chocolate is thicker. The Malteaster Bunnies are quite chunky and less crisp and the flavour is denser than the normal Maltesers, I actually prefer the flavour of the bunnies.
The egg is available from most supermarkets and online, and you can buy the Bunny Bars separately in most supermarkets and shops. Chocolatebuttons sell the Malteaster egg and other Maltesers eggs as single eggs or in bulk boxes of four (with a bulk buy discount) and they also sell the Malteaster Bunnies in packs of four or large boxes of thirty-two.
The egg weighs 198g and each of the bunnies 29g, 314g in total.
“No actual Maltesers were hurt during the making of these Bunnies”
£9.75, 314g or four Malteaster Maltesers Easter Eggs for £29.50.
Labelled: Vegetarian.
Chococo’s lemon meringue Easter egg, a milk chocolate egg covered in a layer of white chocolate with lemon and meringue inside.
All of Chococo’s Easter eggs are presented in bright and bold Easter egg boxes, in the Chococo colours with windows in the side so you can see the egg inside, these windows really show off the outside of the lemon meringue egg, drizzles and splats of bright yellow, naturally coloured white, chocolate on a white chocolate background.
As you open the box you get a gentle aroma of sweet lemon mixed with warm cocoa.
Chococo make their Easter eggs in layers, layers of milk chocolate covered by a layer of white chocolate, because of this when you crack open the egg it tends to shatter and splinter a little, but it does give the shell a texture I adore. The inside of the egg is packed with pieces of meringue and strips of candied lemon.
I am a huge fan of tarte au citron and really sour, citric acid, sweets. Because of the aroma and the name of the egg I was expecting the Chococo lemon meringue Easter egg to be acidy and sour combined with very sweet, but it is completely wrong. The balance of flavours is spot on, creamy white chocolate with 43% cocoa milk chocolate, mixed with sweet and crisp meringue and the gentle flavour of lemon from the chewy candied lemon, a light and refreshing combination of texture and flavour.
A light Easter egg which tastes just as good as it looks, fun and fresh.
£12.95, 175g, available direct from Chococo.
Delicious Booja Booja chocolate truffles flavoured with banana and toffee, dusted with cocoa powder and presented in a beautiful papier-mâché egg shaped box.
Banoffee Toffee replaced the Flambed Banana flavour in Booja Booja’s chocolate truffle range.
Booja Booja Easter eggs are just as much about the papier-mâché eggs as the chocolate truffles inside, each egg is unique. Handmade and hand painted by artisans of the Persian Dowry in Kashmir, India.
For more information of the Persian Dowry company and how buying Booja-Booja Easter eggs supports the artists, and their families, please read the Booja Chronicles on the Booja-Booja website.
As I said before each egg is unique so the images are just for illustration, making it a rather fun luck-dip Easter egg surprise.
The rather fabulous organic chocolate truffles are dark chocolate ganache, made with 56% cocoa, with sticky toffee and banana, making banoffee, and dusted with cocoa powder – which gives a sharp bitterness before the creamy melt in the mouth centre.
Made in Norfolk, UK all Booja-Booja chocolate truffles are organic, vegan, dairy and gluten free.
£10.69, 35g of chocolate truffles and a unique keepsake egg, available from the ethicalsuperstore.com
Labelled: Organic, Vegetarian, Vegan, Dairy Free, Gluten Free and GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) Free.
This cute egg makes me rather nostalgic as it reminds me of Easter in Germany, good quality chocolate decorated with a continental feel, even down the little yellow chick in the window.
The Oeuf Maisonnette Easter egg, which means “Egg House” in French, is a milk chocolate egg styled to look like a bird-house, a hole is cute into the egg and the birdhouse is built inside, the egg is decorated with little shutters a window box and even a little chimney at the top, an adorable egg. Along with the egg is a selection of mini chocolate Easter eggs, in multi coloured foils.
Made by The Chocolate Trading Company, creators of gourmet chocolate and luxury chocolate Easter eggs. Comes in a smart Chocolate Trading Company bespoke box and not plastic.
The bird house Easter egg is available in milk chocolate and dark chocolate and two sizes, each with the same chick design and foiled mini eggs.
Large £24.95 320g or small £14.95 180g.
Labelled: Alcohol free and soya lecithin free.
Moo Free’s dairy free milk chocolate alternative Easter egg for, vegan and lactose intolerant, children.
Moo Free are a chocolate company who wanted to make dairy free chocolate which still has a smooth and creamy taste, they now make chocolate is dairy free chocolate, gluten free, egg free, vegetarian and vegan.
Because this my first try of Moo Free chocolate and this is a rather unique egg, I don’t know of any other dairy free “milk chocolate” eggs, I thought I would taste test it with a few friends. So I got together two vegans, two non-vegans and two children, and got them to try it.
The vegans really liked it and the non-vegans didn’t so much, so a 50/50 Marmite result. Both of the kids really like it with comments like “nice” and “any more?” and as this is mainly aimed at kids I would say that was a good result.
The chocolate does smell like milk chocolate and is a little darker in colour, it is smooth and creamy (however, one “reviewer” did comment it was a little bit grainy) but for me and the other non-vegans it didn’t taste like milk chocolate.
I personally enjoyed the Moo Free Easter egg, but to me the egg tastes a little like rice – I am not sure if it really does taste like rice or if there was a flavour I could not put my finger on and because I had already read the ingredients my brain decided it was the rice powder I could taste.
It’s a new flavour, not quite milk chocolate but defiantly not dark chocolate, I would buy this for anyone that wanted a dairy free milk chocolate Easter egg.
For more information about Moo Free, ingredients lists, full dietary details and where else to buy the eggs see the Moo Free website.
£3.40, 100g milk chocolate dairy free Easter egg from the ethicalsuperstore.
Labelled: Vegan (certified), Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Organic, Fair-trade and Vegetarian.
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