Chocolate Easter Eggs

It may come as no surprise that I love chocolate, but even I can’t eat or sample everything from every shop! This is why the End of Season Chocolate Selection from Hotel Chocolat is such a fantastic idea, a selection of the gorgeous chocolate recipes that are close to the sell by dates.

You get a balanced selection of chocolates from the range, you don’t get to choose it’s a lucky dip – with everybody being lucky.

I love the End of Season box because you get to try new chocolates that you might not normally choose and I have found some new favourites just from this “sample selection”, and the price is amazing for the amount of chocolate you get. Not to mention the fact that it’s rather fun not knowing what will arrive!

You can buy the Hotel Chocolat End of Season Selection here, but hurry they always sell out quick.

£8.50 for at least 400g of luxury chocolate.

Easter Sale at The Chocolate Trading Company, great savings on Easter chocolate.

The end of season chocolate sale includes foil wrapped novelty chocolate figures, foil wrapped eggs, chocolate filled hens eggs, some very cute novelty chocolate bunnies and rabbits, and of course the gourmet chocolate Easter Eggs that the Chocolate Trading Company are known for.

They also have a few of the new Michel Cluizel Easter chocolate range reduced, if you have never tried Michel Cluizel this would be a great opportunity.

You can see all the sale items here.

The end of season sale from Hotel Chocolat, with up to 50% off Easter chocolate and chocolate Easter Eggs.

Hotel Chocolat’s Easter Egg Sandwiches, four cute decorated chocolate Easter eggs in four different flavours.

These are not your normal Easter eggs but two slices of flavoured chocolate with chocolate egg shell halves squished into them, and placed back to back to create an Easter Egg Sandwich.

Four distinct flavour combinations make up the Easter Egg Sandwich range, each with a quirky sandwich name. The packaging is fun too, designed to look like sandwich boxes with a little window to show the chocolate sandwich inside.

The flavour choices:

• Creamed Caramel Club Egg Sandwich – Slices of milk chocolate fused with white chocolate and studded with caramel drops are sandwiched between two caramel milk chocolate shells.
• Seriously Dark Wrap Egg Sandwich – 70% cocoa dark chocolate shells decorated with stripes of piped chocolate and embedded in dark chocolate slabs blended with cocoa nibs, for extra texture, crunch and flavour. The dairy free and vegan option.
• Strawberry Melt Egg Sandwich – The traditional Eton Mess as an Easter Egg, creamy white chocolate and zingy strawberry flavoured chocolate slices decorated with meringue pieces between white chocolate shells.
• Smooth Praline Toasty Egg Sandwich – 40% cocoa milk chocolate shells, pressed into slices of praline-marbled milk chocolate.

Each dinky egg weighs 100g and is 10cm high and just under 7.5cm at its widest point.

The eggs decorated with bright colours use white chocolate and white chocolate coloured with natural colourings.

Fun Easter Eggs with one for everybody, packed with flavour and beautifully decorated.

£8.00 per Easter Egg Sandwich or three for £21.00.

A decorated milk chocolate egg with a chocolate box containing a selection of Thorntons Continental chocolates.

The hollow milk chocolate egg is embellished with drizzles of white chocolate and dark chocolate, creating criss-crossing horizontal lines around the centre the egg and finished off with a ribbon box.

Along side the egg is a box of twelve Thorntons Continental chocolates; inspired by European foods and recipes the Continental collection has chocolate truffles, pralines, and chocolate versions of desserts, that reflect a passion for chocolate.

You can have a message iced onto the egg, at no extra charge, creating a personalised Easter gift.

£9.99, decorated chocolate egg and a box of 12 chocolates.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

The Eggsibitionist extra thick Easter Egg from Hotel Chocolat, two chunky milk chocolate half shells filled with a selection of filled mini egg chocolates.

Made from Hotel Chocolat’s special, 40% cocoa house blend, milk chocolate the extra thick shells are up to three times thicker than normal Easter eggs, each half is wrapped in foil to keep them fresh.

Hiding inside the egg halves is a selection of twelve filled mini eggs, the same gorgeous little eggs as in the Easter H-Box, Seekster Easter Egg Box Selection and Chocolate Quail Eggs box, but without the alcohol. So if you missed out on those you can try them in this egg.

The egg is approximately 147mm high and weighs a hefty 400g, 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.

£24.00, approximately 400g of rather chucky milk chocolate with truffles.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Alcohol Free and Gluten Free.

If you are a fan of Cadbury chocolate and Cadbury the brand or you are buying eggs for someone who is, then this Easter is perfect for you.

Not only have Cadbury created Easter eggs with toys, but Cadbury Gifts Direct have some classic Cadbury branded soft toy Easter egg gift sets as well.

Possibly the most famous is the Cadburys Gorilla playing the drums from the Dairy Milk TV advert; you can get your own official soft toy version exclusively from Cadbury Gifts Direct with a giant Cadbury Dairy Milk Easter egg.

£25.00, 575g Giant Easter Egg with chocolate bars and Large Cadbury Gorilla Soft Toy.

New Cadburys Easter Egg Soft Toys

The two new Easter eggs for 2011 are the CurlyWurly Snake Egg and the Dairy Milk Freddo Egg; both of these eggs contain a cute soft toy, a chocolate bar and have activities on the boxes relating to the toys inside.

The Cadbury CurlyWurly Easter Egg has a hollow milk chocolate egg and a mini Curly Wurly bar inside with an endearing purple snake toy, the activity is Dingle-Dangle Snakes – cut out snakes you colour in to make hanging mobiles.

In the Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Easter Egg you get the same egg and a Freddo bar, which seems to just be a Dairy Milk bar and the Freddo Frog toy, the activity is to turn the Easter egg box into a boat with a cut-out sail on one side.

£3.49 each.

Mr Cadbury Bear Easter Eggs

Three of Cadburys largest Easter eggs, the Giant eggs, come with a Mr Cadbury Bear – a sandy brown teddy bear dressed in a purple waistcoat with gold buttons, purple pads on his paws and a gold “C” on his left foot.

These gift sets each contain a Giant egg, chocolates and the large soft toy;

• Cadbury Creme Egg Giant Easter Egg with a box of six Creme Eggs and Mr Bear -£22.50, 532g.
• Giant Dairy Milk Easter Egg and teddy bear with two Cadbury Dairy Milk bars – £22.50, 575g.
• Mr Cadbury Bear and a Giant Mini Eggs Easter Egg and two bags of solid milk mini chocolate eggs – £22.50, 532g.

I believe the Mr Cadbury Bear is a character from Cadbury World, but I could be wrong.

Cadbury Caramel Bunny

Another classic Cadbury character from television ads is the Cadbury Caramel Bunny,

This adorable cartoon character turned into a soft toy is dark brown with a lighter shade of brown on her tummy, face and the inside of her ears, a large pink ribbon round her neck, with big eyes and even bigger ears she stands 36cm tall.

£20.00, 496g Giant Caramel Bunnies Easter Egg with five packets of Caramel Bunnies chocolates and Cadbury Caramel soft toy bunny.

Flying Disc Easter Eggs

Also new for 2011 are the Cadbury Flying Disc eggs, chocolate Easter eggs with a “Spots v Stripes” frisbee.

These are the large Cadbury Easter eggs with an added extra; the Flying Disc toy, which is 7inches/178mm across. Both have activities on the box, cut out shapes you put in the ground and whichever team gets closest wins.

£6.99 each.

The same Flying Disc eggs are also available in “Passion” gift sets, chocolate gift hampers containing a selection of chocolates from Cadbury designed for Mini Eggs and Crème Egg lovers.

The Cadbury Creme Egg Gift Box contains; a Cadbury Creme Egg 3 Pack 237g , a Creme Egg Minis Tube 158g, two bags of Cadbury Creme Egg Minis each 56g and the Cadbury Creme Egg Flying Disc Egg 277g – £14.50. And the Cadbury Mini Eggs Passion Selection contains; Cadbury Mini Eggs Tube 120g, a treatsized bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs 251g, a 45g Mini Eggs Tube and the Cadbury Mini Egg Flying Disc Egg 260g – £14.30.

That’s a lot of Cadbury’s chocolate and a lot of fun to be had this Easter.

£3.49 to £25.00.

With Easter not too far away, the chocolate is selling out and final delivery dates are fast approaching.

These are the Easter delivery dates for 2011, for the chocolate shops whose chocolate has appeared on my site. Easter Sunday is the 24th of April, but the Friday before is Bank Holiday – so no deliveries or post.

* Standard delivery does not guarantee delivery before Easter Sunday, to get your chocolate Easter eggs in time – order early and select the Express, Premium, Gold, Next Day, Special Delivery service offered.

Express Delivery can either be Special Delivery by Royal mail, DHL or another courier service.

You can order right up until 4pm on Thursday April 21st 2011, for delivery on Saturday before Easter Sunday.

Hotel Chocolat’s Dark Chocolate Eggsposé egg, half an Extra Thick Easter egg with eight gianduja mini eggs inside.

This is the dairy free Easter egg from the Eggsposé range, one of five half eggs new for 2011.

Eggsposé a play on the word exposé, meaning to reveal or uncover, and they do live up to their name – the stylish box the eggs are presented in have windows on the front so you can see the mini eggs or chocolates inside, tempting you to try them.

The Extra Thick shell is made from Hotel Chocolat’s award winning house, 70% cocoa, dark chocolate and stands 157mm tall and is about 4mm thick, which doesn’t should very thick but is actually two or three times thicker than other eggs.

For me the real stars of the show are the gianduja mini eggs, gianduja is dark chocolate blended with finely ground hazelnuts and sugar to create a smooth paste, the eight mini eggs are in cast from same dark chocolate as the egg shell and then encrusted with sugar crystals. As you bite into the eggs the sugar adds a crunchy texture followed by the snap of the dark chocolate shell, then comes the beautiful gianduja filling, with the consistency of a very dense mousse – which is so smooth and creamy I had to check this really was a vegan egg! Absolutely beautiful.

Fine chocolate shaped into a chic egg shell and eight mini eggs, worth the price just for the gianduja mini eggs.

£14.00, 225g.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Alcohol Free, Vegan and Dairy Free.

Five Easter egg collections from Green & Black’s, each containing three Easter eggs and two chocolate bars, in different milk and dark chocolate flavour combinations.

The Maya Gold, my favourite Green & Black’s flavour, collection contains all dark chocolate eggs and bars; a Luxury Dark egg a 180g egg with two 100g chocolate bars – dark chocolate with ginger and dark chocolate with cherry, a thick shelled Maya Gold Easter 180g, a 100g box of dark chocolate mini eggs with praline centres and two mini bars, 70% dark chocolate and Maya Gold – both 35g each.

More Green & Black’s Easter Egg Collections

The other four collections have the same selection of Easter eggs, mini eggs and chocolate bars.

Milk Collection:

• A Luxury Milk Chocolate Easter Egg, with a butterscotch bar and a milk chocolate bar with almonds.
• A Thick Shelled milk chocolate Easter egg.
• Butterscotch milk chocolate mini eggs
• A white chocolate mini bar and a creamy milk chocolate bar.

Dark Collection:

• A Luxury Dark Chocolate Easter Egg, cherry and ginger flavoured dark chocolate bars.
• A 70% cocoa, dark chocolate Thick Shelled Easter egg.
• Praline centred dark chocolate mini eggs.
• 70% dark chocolate and Maya Gold mini chocolate bars.

Butterscotch Collection:

• A Luxury organic Milk Easter Egg with two 100g bars, milk chocolate with butterscotch and milk chocolate with almond.
• A butterscotch Thick Shelled Easter egg.
• 100g of foil wrapped butterscotch mini eggs.
• A white chocolate mini bar and a Creamy Milk chocolate mini bar.

Easter Egg Collection:

• A Luxury Milk Easter Egg and two chocolate bars, butterscotch and almond.
• A milk chocolate with butterscotch Thick Shelled Easter egg.
• Milk chocolate mini eggs.
• A white chocolate bar and a Creamy Milk chocolate bar, both miniature.

Each of Green & Black’s Easter egg collections are presented in a gift box tied with a ribbon.

I really like this idea, the same selection of chocolate but with different flavours combinations and a choice of milk or dark chocolate, it means you can buy the same gift for different people who different tastes and you spend exactly the same amount on them. Or the collections can be split up into three gifts with two bars leftover for you!

£25.00, 530g.

Labelled: Organic, Vegetarian, Fairtrade and Gluten Free.

A handmade milk chocolate Easter egg from Chococo, decorated with coloured white chocolate and “studded” on the inside with chocolate beans and popping candy!

This delicious egg is made with 41% cocoa, Venezuelan carenero superior, milk chocolate. The egg shell is then hand piped in a diagonal, horizontal and vertical criss-cross pattern using coloured white chocolate, coloured with natural colourings, the three colours; orange, pink and green which stand out against the gloss of the chocolate creating a striking and eye-catching design.

The inside of the egg is just as colourful as the stripy outside, it contains chocolate beans in a variety of colours, think grown up over sized Smarties, and hidden under a layer of more chocolate is the popping candy or Space Dust, depending on your age, little rocks waiting to explode as you bite into them.

Because Chococo make good quality milk chocolate, made with 41% cocoa compared to standard milk chocolate which averages 31%, it is less sweet and has much more flavours, smooth and mellow without being too over powering. But this egg is just about great flavours and good quality chocolate, there are also the chocolate beans and popping candy; the beans give a great crunch and added texture as you bite through then and the popping candy pops and fizzes – and as they are sprinkled inside the egg you get different amounts with each mouthful. I personally found that if you let the chocolate melt in your mouth you get much more of the fizzing, exploding and popping from the candy than you do biting it.

A fun egg made with quality milk chocolate, handmade and decorated with chocolate beans and fun popping candy – would bring a smile to anybody’s face!

£12.95, 175g.

Decorate and personalise your own Easter eggs with the cocoapod EasterEggs DIY Kit, create your own sweet covered egg to give as a gift or eat yourself!

This fun kit is the Easter version of cocoapod’s “Decorate Your Own FunnyFaces Kit”, a kit with chocolate shapes which you can decorate.

This EasterEggs version has four milk chocolate, 31% cocoa, flat eggs for you to decorate with the sweets included, also in the kit are some chocolate drops which you can melt to stick your creations in place and enough bags and ribbons for your wrap your eggs up as gifts.

The cocoapod EasterEggs DIY Kit contents:

• Four milk chocolate egg shapes, 35g each
• A rather large bag of pick ‘n’ mix style sweets, 320g
• A bag of milk chocolate drops for melting, 100g
• Four brushes for the melted chocolate
• Four cute fluffy chicks
• Bags and ribbons to wrap the completed eggs in
• Full instructions

Apart from a way to melt the chocolate you have everything you need all in one box, making the kit a great activity to keep the kids entertained over Easter or the kit can make four individual Easter eggs with that homemade touch.

£15.00, 560g of Easter fun.

Previously known as the The Rocky Road to Caramellow Ostrich Egg, the giant MILK Ostrich egg is back and just as tempting!

An extra large Easter egg with a selection of twenty two chocolates, this egg is just one of the two biggest eggs from the Hotel Chocolat Easter range.

The immense Easter egg, measures 285mm tall (that’s just under eleven inches, in old money) and are called Ostrich Easters eggs because they are about the size and weight of real Ostrich eggs!

The two chunky chocolate shells are made from 40% cocoa milk chocolate, the egg is then covered with more chocolate chunks, crispies and cookie pieces and the covered in more chocolate and decorated. This big Easter egg also comes with a selection of chocolates inside the egg box, including two mini chocolate slabs, an Easter bunny lolly and a collection of mellow chocolates in sixteen different flavours.

I am a big fan of Hotel Chocolat’s milk chocolate, really smooth and mellow with a good cocoa flavour. I have not tasted all of the other flavour combinations, but this collection would be the perfect way to sample them.

Stylishly presented “nesting” in a box of soft paper twirls, above a drawer containing the Easter chocolate selection – this really is a chocolate Easter egg to impress.

£65.00, approximately 1400g of luxury chocolates.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Alcohol Free.

Cadbury Creme Eggs one of the most sort after chocolate treats from Cadbury, as they are only in “season” for part of the year – Here Today, Goo tomorrow!

The Creme Egg Passion Hamper from Cadbury contains a variety of the gooey eggs including mini Creme Eggs, the classic three pack and the new Flying Disc egg.

£14.50, lots of Cadbury Creme Eggs all in one box.

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.

Creme Eggs Easter Eggs

Cadbury Creme Eggs Easter eggs come in a number of sizes;

The Creme Egg Flying Disc Egg is a large chocolate egg with two Creme eggs and a frisbee. The Giant Creme Egg Easter Egg is an even bigger milk chocolate egg alongside a box of six Creme eggs.

£6.99, 277g and flying disc – £9.99, 532g.

The medium egg is part of the Creme Egg Cup Set and comes with two branded ceramic egg cups.

And the Giant Creme Egg Easter egg also comes as part of the Cadbury Creme Egg with Mr Bear set with a cute Mr Cadbury Bear soft toy.

£8.50, 178g and egg cups – £22.50, 532g and bear.

Creme Eggs in Bulk

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’s twenty four Creme Eggs in total and you get an egg cup too!

And if you need even more than that, you can get a box of forty eight eggs. Just like the boxes they have in the sweet shops.

£15.00, Gift Pack. – £20.00, 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 all Creme Eggs are labelled vegetarian and gluten free.

Goo!

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. The Cadbury Creme Eggs season is from the 1st of January until Easter, the 24th 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!

The gooiest chocolate egg – the Creme Egg from Cadbury, release the Goo!

The largest Easter chocolate hamper from Hotel Chocolat for 2011, filled with a selection of dark chocolate and milk chocolate goodies.

The Easter Weekend Chocolate Hamper contains:

• The Easter Sleekster – A cracking collection of 30 mini Easter egg chocolates, each with a filled centre in a selection of eleven different flavours.
• Dark Eggs & Soldiers – Five dark chocolate half eggs filled with rich praline alongside five dark chocolate soldiers – egg & soldiers the fun way.
• Milk Chocolate Half Easter Egg – Half of an Extra Thick Easter Egg, 40% milk chocolate, filled with eight praline mini eggs
• Dark Tiddly Chicks – 70% dark chocolate cast into eight cute Easter chick shaped chocolates.
• Milk Chocolate Doodle Slab – A 100g mini slab, doodled on in chocolate with a milk chocolate Easter chick on top.
• 5 Eggs Florentines – An Easter version of the, crispy and chewy, chocolate Florentine.

Perfect for a family to share, with boozy chocolates in the selection box for the adults and cute chocolate shapes for the kids or split up into six individual Easter chocolate gifts.

£60.00

A blog about Easter chocolate and where to buy chocolate Easter Eggs online, including a wonderful selection of white chocolate eggs, rich dark chocolate Easter eggs and Easter eggs made from smooth milk chocolate.

Great care has been taken when labelling the Easter eggs and chocolate, splitting them into useful categories such as dairy free Easter eggs and gluten free Easter eggs.

I absolutely love chocolate and think Easter is one of the best times of the year. But Easter is not just about chocolate Easter eggs, there are some wonderful novelty chocolate gifts and fun chocolate Easter bunnies.