Chocolate Easter Eggs

The chocolate part of the Easter weekend may not be over…

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

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 them.

You can see all the sale items here.

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 2012, for the chocolate shops whose chocolate has appeared on my site. Easter Sunday is the 8th 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 5th 2012, for delivery on Saturday before Easter Sunday.

Half a milk chocolate Easter egg with a selection of fresh chocolates and chocolate truffles nestled inside, by Chococo.

The half Easter egg isn’t just half of another egg it is specially made with a flat base, so it stands up own its own like a chocolate bowl, to hold and display the wonderful chocolates inside.

Made from 44% Trinitario bean cocoa, from Grenada, the thick chocolate shell is beautifully smooth and creamy with strong cocoa flavours, just the way I like milk chocolate.

Inside the half Easter egg are the wonderful chocolates and delicious chocolate truffles, in seven different flavours with roughly two of each flavour – I had seventeen chocolates in mine.

Chococo’s chocolates repeatedly win awards and three award winners are in this egg alone;

• Melting Milk chocolate truffle, a vanilla milk chocolate ganache rolled in curls milk chocolate, the centre is soft and creamy with a gentle crush from the chocolate flakes on the outside.
• Chilli Tickle, the smaller chocolate truffle wrapped in gold foil, a dark chocolate truffle dusted in cinnamon icing sugar, rich chocolate with a hint of gentle and warming chilli.
• Blackcurrant, the dark chocolate square with silver lustre and swirls, dark chocolate over blackcurrant paste, fruity and sweet with a wonderful blackcurrant aftertaste.

Presented in ribbon tied cellophane, so you can see the egg and chocolates inside, the half egg would make a fantastic chocolate treat for anyone at Easter and because of the design it would make a perfect sharing dessert or petit fours at a dinner party.

Chococo’s chocolates are handmade fresh, so the chocolate filled half egg will only be available for delivery from April 4th, 2012 – but you can pre-order now.

£18.50, 250g half a chocolate egg and wonderful chocolates.

Montezuma’s Free Range Organic Eco-Eggs, organic and environmentally friendly Easter eggs from Montezuma’s chocolate.

Hollow chocolate eggs with minimal packaging; wrapped in foil, which can be recycled as aluminium, and then an outer casing of recycled card, which is recyclable, compostable and biodegradable, Montezuma’s Eco-Eggs are the most environmentally friendly eggs available to buy online. The outer packaging is even designed to save space in the recycling bin!

The Eco-Eggs come in three different flavours, all made from organic chocolate;

The organic milk chocolate Eco-Egg is made from 34% cocoa milk chocolate and the organic milk chocolate with butterscotch Eco-Egg is made from the same milk chocolate but has pieces of organic butterscotch in the shell.

The organic dark chocolate with cocoa nibs Eco-Egg is made from 73% cocoa dark chocolate with cocoa nibs in the shell, the dark chocolate egg is listed as vegan – but not dairy free.

Three environmentally friendly Easter eggs from Montezuma’s.

£8.99, 150g each or three for £25.00.

Labelled: Vegetarian, GM Free, Gluten Free and Organic.

A French style Easter egg from the Chocolate Trading Company, Oeuf de la mer – Egg of the sea.

New for Easter 2012 the Oeuf de la mer is made from 37% milk chocolate, with sea shells moulded into the shell, and decorated with chocolate fish.

Inside the French style Easter egg are a selection of foil wrapped mini eggs in a variety of flavours.

In France Easter is traditionally celebrated with chocolate fish, rather than chocolate bunnies, and in recent years a sea shells and sea creatures have made from chocolate to expand on the tradition.

£24.95, 340g, French style Easter egg, Oeuf de la mer.

Labelled: Alcohol Free and Soya Lecithin Free.

Montezumas Discount Code

Save 10% on chococlate from Montezumas until the 4th of April, 2012.

To use the Montezumas discount code, simply add all your chocolate goodies and Easter eggs to the shopping basket on the Montezumas site, and enter the discount code “BUNNY” and you will receive 10% off your chocolate.

Excludes postage and packaging.

Green & Black’s Chocolate Tasting Easter egg, a dark chocolate Easter eggs with twenty four miniature chocolate bars.

New for 2012 and the largest Easter egg from Green & Black’s; the largest box at least all of Green & Black’s eggs are the same size, apart from the children’s Explorer’s eggs, the boxes are different sizes and shapes depending on whether you get just the egg or Easter eggs with chocolate bars.

The box itself is suitably impressive, a dark brown base with brightly coloured egg shaped swirls; the front of the box has two little windows in the top window you can see the foil wrapped egg inside and below that a window with a few of the miniature chocolate bars peeping through, finished with gold embossed letting and birds.

Inside the box is the 70% dark chocolate eggs, organic and fairtrade, covered in gold foil, bittersweet plain chocolate with Green & Black’s unique flavour and aroma.

Sitting below the egg are two boxes of miniature chocolate bars;

A box of mini milk chocolate bars, with white chocolate bars; including butterscotch, almond, raisin & hazelnut, and two types of milk chocolate.

Included in the mini dark chocolate bars collection are hazelnut, hazelnut & current, cherry, ginger, 70% dark chocolate and 85% dark chocolate.

A total of twenty-four mini chocolate bars, two of each of the twelve different flavours.

Also in the with the Green & Black’s Chocolate Tasting Easter egg are a stack of tasting note cards, one for each flavour, and on the back of the cards are recipes for cocktails, desserts, drinks and biscuits.

A great Easter gift for anyone that wants to know a little bit more about chocolate, the different flavours and types, how to cook with chocolate or how else chocolate can be used; or a great way to sample a variety of Green & Black’s chocolate.

£14.99, 450g, dark chocolate Easter egg and 24 miniature chocolate bars.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Fairtrade and Organic.

Gift Sets & Hampers

You can by Green & Black’s Chocolate Tasting Easter Egg as a single egg or in gift sets and hampers;

The tasting egg is included in two different organic wine gift sets with either a bottle of white wine or a bottle of red wine, both gift sets are presented in a ribbon tied gift box.

The tasting egg is also included in the Green & Black’s Easter hamper.

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 the Cadbury Treasure Eggs are quite small, less than half the size of a Cadbury Creme Eggs, but not too disappointing given how cheap they are.

Each egg is approximately 135mm tall and 80mm wide, so they are a good size for Easter Egg Hunts or treats for kids.

£1.95, 142g each.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

Cadbury Treasure Eggs Gift Sets

The Treasure Eggs are sold individually or in larger gift sets; the Cadbury Egg Collection has one of each of the Treasure Eggs and three Eggheads, which are hollow milk chocolate eggs with faces.

Cadburys Mini Eggs gift set includes the Mini Eggs Treasure Egg, in a gift bag, a Cadbury Mini Eggs Easter egg and Mini Eggs in a tube and bag.

The Caramel Treasure Egg is included in Cadburys Largest Easter Egg Hamper.

Easter egg hunts are just lots of fun, I love them and they are a great activity to keep both the kids and adults entertained over the Easter weekend.

There are a few different ways to run your own Easter egg hunts, depending on the age of the children (or adults), the amount of children and how many eggs you want to buy or you can just pop along to an organised egg hunt in your area.

One of the most important elements to your own Easter egg hunt, apart from enjoying yourself of course, are the eggs.

Easter Egg Hunt Kits

There are a few Easter egg hunt kits available to create your own egg hunt at home, these are normally small kits for families or small groups, with foil wrapped eggs and clue markers.

The Cadbury Easter Egg Trail Packs have ten hollow chocolate eggs and a bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs as the prize.

They also have larger kits, the Cadbury Easter Egg Trail Packs with more chocolates, for larger events or bigger families.

Dubble, by Divine Chocolate, have Easter egg hunt kits in egg boxes; six hollow fairtrade milk chocolate eggs with cut out signs and you can download more signs from the Dubble site.

The Dubble Easter egg hunt kits are available in blue or pink egg boxes from the Ethical Superstore or Oxfam.

Hotel Chocolat’s Easter Egg Hunt Game has five foil wrapped milk chocolate eggs with twenty chocolates, ten milk chocolate and ten dark chocolate, and ten clue arrows presented in a ribbon tied basket.

Thorntons Easter Egg Hunt kit, approximately eight larger hollow eggs and a selection of smaller mini eggs, all milk chocolate and foil wrapped.

You can of course have any combination of eggs for your Easter egg hunt; whenever I have one I normally have one large Easter egg per child/person, which has their name and they have to find, so everyone gets at least one larger egg and lots of little eggs hollow and filled for everyone to find as they look for their larger eggs. Just have fun with it.

Green & Black’s butterscotch chocolate Easter egg, a thick milk chocolate shell with small pieces of butterscotch in the shell, both the chocolate and butterscotch are organic and fairtrade.

Another of my favourite flavoured Easter eggs, the butterscotch Easter egg by Green & Black’s is a very popular egg with the “ummmm” factor.

Crisp organic butterscotch toffee is blended into the thick chocolate shell, this adds a gentle crunch and a mellow flavour that enhances the already delicious rich milk chocolate that Green & Black’s are famous for.

Green & Black’s Easter eggs are in boxes which saves on cardboard and contain no plastic containers.

£6.59, 180g.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Fairtrade and Organic.

Butterscotch Easter Egg Gift Sets

Green & Black’s Butterscotch Easter Egg is available as a single egg from the Green & Black’s website, or as part of larger chocolate gift sets including Green & Black’s Easter hamper.

And you can create your own Green & Black’s hamper using their bespoke hamper service.

Chocolate truffle Easter eggs, chocolate truffles combined with chocolate eggs or egg shaped chocolate boxes to create luxury chocolate Easter eggs and Easter eggs with a little extra.

Chocolate truffles are a classic way of making and flavouring chocolate, normally a ganache centre inside a chocolate shell or simply dusted with cocoa powder, there are many types of chocolate truffle depending on who makes them, how they are made and how they are flavoured; which is why there is a wide selection of Chocolate truffle Easter eggs to choose from.

Charbonnel et Walker Truffle Easter Eggs

Charbonnel et Walker are world famous for their chocolate truffles, for Easter they have two different types of truffle Easter eggs both Marc de Champagne truffles in three different sized egg.

The largest Charbonnel et Walker Easter egg is the Large Pink Champagne Chocolate Truffle Easter Egg, a milk chocolate shell with pink Marc de Champagne chocolate truffles, 450g.

The smallest egg is the Small Dark Chocolate Easter Egg, a dark chocolate shell with dark chocolate Marc de Champagne truffles, 115g.

All of the eggs are presented in a, covered, gold embossed box with a clear window so you can see the ribbon tied egg inside.

Charbonnel et Walker truffle eggs and Charbonnel et Walker Easter eggs with chocolates are available to buy online from Chocolate Trading Company, Selfridges and John Lewis, not all of the eggs are available in the three different sizes, and not all of the chocolate shops sell all the different types of eggs.

Prestat Chocolate Truffle Easter Eggs

Prestat are believed to have introduced the chocolate truffle to England in when they were established in 1902, so it’s no surprise to see a wonderful selection of chocolate truffle eggs for Easter.

Prestat have a selection of four different chocolate truffle Easter egg flavours, each in two different sizes.

Both the large Marc de Champagne egg and the Marc de Champagne egg are milk chocolate eggs with Marc de Champagne chocolate truffles.

The large Sea Salt Caramel truffle egg and the Sea Salt Caramel truffle egg are 71% cocoa dark chocolate with salted caramel truffles.

Both of the milk chocolate eggs; the large milk chocolate egg and the Prestat milk chocolate egg, are 38% cocoa and are accompanied by a selection of milk, dark and white chocolate truffles.

The large Prestat Easter eggs are 227g, half a pound in old money, and the smaller Prestat Easter eggs are 170g – they are all presented as foil wrapped ribbon tied eggs nestled inside luxury embossed boxes.

Prestat chocolate truffle Easter eggs are available to buy online from the Easter range at Selfridges.

Hotel Chocolat Truffle Easter Eggs

Hotel Chocolat have three different types of chocolate truffle Easter eggs, two of these are new for Easter 2012; the Gianduja Truffle Easter Egg and the Champagne Truffle Easter Egg, in both large and mini sizes.

The larger eggs both have a selection of twenty chocolate truffles and the smaller eggs, the mini Pink Champagne Truffle Easter Egg and mini Dark Gianduja Truffle Easter Egg, have two truffles each. Full details on the Hotel Chocolat Easter eggs 2012, truffle eggs page.

Also from Hotel Chocolat is the Your Eggscellency Easter egg, part of the Extra Thick range.

A large chocolate Easter egg with a selection of twelve, rather boozy, chocolate truffles.

Hotel Chocolat eggs, and a large collection of Easter chocolates are available to buy online from the Hotel Chocolat Hotel Chocolat and John Lewis.

Easter Eggs with Chocolate Truffles

A delightful selection of chocolate truffle Easter eggs for Easter and all of these Brands are British; Charbonnel et Walker and Prestat are two of the oldest chocolate brands in England and Hotel Chocolat, is a younger high-street and online English brand.

A 170g 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 featuring the traditional West African Adinkra symbols.

You can learn more about Adinkra symbols on the Adinkra Symbols & Meanings website and download the “Adinkra Symbol Lesson Plan” from the trading visions site, which is really a teachers lesson plan – but it is really interesting and something to so with the kids over Easter (the download is quite large and you will been to give an email address).

£4.25, 170g.

Labelled: Fair Trade and Vegetarian.

Divine Chocolate Mini Eggs

Also from Divine are the praline mini eggs and dark chocolate mini eggs, with individually foil wrapped chocolate mini Easter eggs and the speckled eggs with a crisp sugar shell.

The Divine Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs, the Divine Chocolate Praline Mini Eggs, the Divine Dark Chocolate Mini Eggs and the Divine Milk Chocolate Speckled Eggs are all 170g, £4.25 per bag and all available on multi-buy.

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.