Chocolate Easter Eggs

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:

• Dark Praline: A dark chocolate shell, that has a very satisfying snap when you bite into it, filled with a well-flavoured hazelnut praline enhanced by the 70% cocoa chocolate.
• Advocaat Truffle: Milk chocolate ganache with a splash of Advocaat liqueur, which keep the smooth centre relaxed and adds a subtle “egg custard” flavour.
• Amaretto Truffle: An elegant milk chocolate and cream ganache with a good dash of Amaretto, encased in a mellow milk shell.
• Caramel Egg: Soft, mellow and extremely comforting runny caramel encased in a creamy milk chocolate shell and finished with an all-natural yellow dot.
• Berry Mousse: A white chocolate whipped mousse, in a white chocolate shell, with raspberries and strawberries, which gives the mousse a fresh flavour and a wonderful texture.
• Banana Split: A rich and sticky banana butter caramel, which tastes just like real caramelised bananas, in a 40% cocoa milk chocolate shell.
• Milk Praline: A crisp milk chocolate egg shell with an incredibly smooth milk chocolate and hazelnut praline, simple but delicious.

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)

• The Serious Dark Fix™ Extra Thick Easter Egg, half of an extra thick 70% dark chocolate egg with dark chocolate chocolates.
• Milk Scrambled Easter Egg™, a brightly decorated egg with a collection of six mellow milk chocolates.
• Eton Mess Easter Egg Sandwich™, white chocolate with strawberry and meringue pieces.

Three Easter Chocolate Boxes

• The Sleekster Easter Egg Box Selection, thirty flavoured mini eggs in a selection box.
• Eggs & Soldiers, creamy milk chocolate egg halves with white chocolate soldiers to dip.
• Sticky Toffee Easter Eggies, dark chocolate eggs with a sticky toffee filling.

Two Chocolate Treats

• Caramel Drops
• Milk Scrambled Egg Mini Slab

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:

• Hotel Chocolat – Diabetic Chocolate
• Diabetes UK
• Diabetes.co.uk – the global diabetes community – these would be the “ask someone who does” people.
• Watchdog – Diabetic ‘treats’ not so sweet

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.

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. 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 Eggs Easter Eggs

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.

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 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.

Giant Easter Eggs

The two largest Easter eggs are the gigantic Ostrich eggs, thick chocolate shells with a two layer selection box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates.

• The Milk Ostrich Easter Egg™
• The Dark Ostrich Easter Egg™

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 Easter Eggs

Extra thick milk chocolate and dark chocolate Easter eggs, two chunky shell halves filled with a selection of Easter chocolate treats.

• The Eggsibitionist™
• The Serious Dark Fix™
• Your Eggsellency™
• You Crack Me Up™
• Rocky Road To Caramel™

Each chunky egg is £22.00 and with five to choose from, everyone will have a favourite.

Scrambled Egg Easter Eggs

New for 2010, Scrambled Eggs, very creative and stylish little chocolate Easter eggs along side six matching chocolates in a display box.

• Milk Scrambled Easter Egg™
• Boozy Scrambled Easter Egg™
• Caramel Scrambled Easter Egg™
• Dark Scrambled Easter Egg™ Vegan / Dairy Free
• White Scrambled Easter Egg™

Each egg is colourfully decorated, using natural colouring, with scrambled swirls making every egg unique. Five to choose from, £15.00 each.

Easter Egg Sandwiches™

Hotel Chocolat’s flavoured Easter eggs, the Egg Sandwiches. Two slabs of flavoured chocolate sandwiched between to egg halves.

• Creamed Caramel Egg Sandwich™
• Chilli Combo Egg Sandwich™
• Eton Mess Egg Sandwich™
• Smooth Praline Egg Sandwich™
• Full On Dark Egg Sandwich™ Vegan / Dairy Free

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.

When is Easter Sunday 2010?

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.

Easter 2010-2015

Other "Chocolate" Events

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.

Any excuse for chocolate!

A fabulous Easter hamper that is packed full of yummy Hotel Chocolat chocolate goodies.

The ultimate in Easter gifts, a delicious selection of chocolate from the Hotel Chocolat Easter collection, beautifully presented in a wooden crate, the hamper is part of the converted Room Service Hampers range.

Including two halves of the most popular chocolate Easter eggs, the scrummy milk and dark chocolate Eggies – filled smooth hazelnut praline and soft vanilla-accented chocolate, three unique chocolate slabs that are only available in the Easter hamper and other treats. Ideal for the sharing and experiencing Hotel Chocolat’s expertise.

The Easter Hamper contents:

• Half of a Your Eggsellency Egg
• Half a You Crack Me Up Egg
• Milk Chocolate Munchkins (180g)
• Milk Chocolate Eggies (120g)
• Dark Chocolate Eggies (120g)
• Caramel Drops (180g)
• 3 Easter slabs (3×100g)

£50.00

Labelled: Vegetarian.

A chocolate egg collection that features the four, medium sized, thick shelled chocolate Easter eggs from Green & Black’s.

Four beautiful chocolate Easter eggs, each the same size making this the ideal collection for sharing – without anyone getting jealous.

The Green & Black’s medium chocolate Easter egg collection contains the Maya Gold egg, made from the same chocolate the Maya Gold bar was the first UK produce to be awarded the fair trade mark from the Fairtrade Foundation. Dark chocolate infused with orange and spices.

Green & Black’s Easter Eggs:

• 1 x 180g Milk Chocolate Thick Shelled Egg
• 1 x 180g Maya Gold Dark Chocolate Thick Shelled Easter Egg
• 1 x 180g Dark 70% Chocolate Thick Shelled Egg
• 1 x 180g Milk Chocolate Thick Shelled Butterscotch Egg

The chocolate collection is finished off with a 100g carton of milk chocolate mini eggs, with a smooth milk chocolate centres.

£28.00, 820g.

A 200g bag of smooth and creamy Divine milk chocolate mini Easter eggs.

They may be small but they are packed with the distinctive creamy flavour of Divine chocolate from the finest Ghanaian cocoa mixed with smooth cocoa butter and a dash of real vanilla.

Wrapped in gold foil featureing the traditional West African Adinkra symbols.

You can also get these mini-eggs free when you spend £50.00 or more, on the natural collection website. See site for details.

£3.50, 200g.

Labelled: Fair Trade, Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

Large vegan Easter egg created with love, hand crafted from dark chocolate in the West Sussex country side, England.

Montezuma’s bold and beautiful giant Easter egg is made from Costa Rican cocoa, giving it a distinct aroma and flavour which is subtle and rich while not being overly bitter.

A rather chunky hollow egg the shell is approximately 5mm thick, the egg stands 25cm (just under 10 inches) high and 16cm (just over 6 inches) wide and weighs in at 550g!

The outer shell of the chocolate Easter egg has a starburst effect created by hand piping dark chocolate over the outside of the egg, resulting in a chic and tactile pattern.

This giant egg is presented wrapped in biodegradable clear film, with the Montezuma’s logo printed on it, and has its on little stand so it stands rather proudly by it’s self and is finished off with a ribbon and label.

£24.95 a big and heavy 550g.

Labelled: GM Free, Preservatives / Additive / Colouring Free, Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten Free.

This is one of two giant chocolate Easter eggs from Montezuma’s; the other is the Giant Egg: Venezuela a rich milk chocolate egg with 43% Venezuelan cocoa, the same size and weight as the Giant Egg: Costa Rica.

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.