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Thorntons Continental Milk Chocolate Easter Egg

Suzie — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:17:54 +0000

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.

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Easter Egg Hunt Eggs

Suzie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:40:04 +0000

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.

Hollow Easter Egg Hunt Eggs

Foil wrapped hollow chocolate eggs are good for a Easter egg hunts for a few reasons; if you are having a hunt outdoors the eggs are protected from the elements, there isn’t too much chocolate in them so kids can have more than one and they are less messy if the crack or get squished.

If you are after lots of small(ish) eggs, Hotel Chocolat has two boxes of eggs perfect for Easter eggs hunts; the Oodles of Eggs box contains 50 foil wrapped eggs and the Eggstravaganza Crate, 17 eggs and a large extra thick Easter egg. All the small eggs are 40% milk chocolate and are great bulk buy options.

Montezuma’s also have a box of foil wrapped eggs, The Big Egg Hunt box contains 20 eggs in a mixture milk and white chocolate, all the chocolate is organic.

All of these eggs are about the same size as a standard hens eggs, just the right size for little hands.

Cadburys have two types of hollow eggs ideal for hiding about the house or garden, the Cadbury Eggheads, these are brightly coloured with cheeky faces on the foil and come in an assortment of six designs.

The other eggs are the Cadbury Treasure Eggs, these come in three different flavours – although hollow they do have two mini eggs inside.

Both types of eggs are much larger that the Hotel Chocolat and Montezuma’s eggs, the Eggheads are 105mm tall and the Treasure Eggs are 135mm tall – much easier to find in the undergrowth and because they are sold as single eggs you can get the specific amount you need.

Filled Easter Egg Hunt Eggs

Foil wrapped filled mini eggs are also great for egg hunts, these normally come in two sizes the classic Cadbury Crème egg, smaller than a hen’s egg and the small mini eggs, these are normally smaller versions of the mini eggs and are half as small again.

Thornton’s have three different flavoured Treat Eggs, Marc de Champagne, Melts Praline and Melts Caramel – each egg is sold separately and they also have a Easter Egg Hunt Basket filled with a selection of the Treat Eggs, eighteen eggs in total.

I really like this basket; it has a very traditional look about it and would make a great Easter display filled with Easter eggs and can be used year after year.

Probably the best known mini eggs are from Cadburys, available in most shops, newsagents and supermarket around Easter. But if you want to buy in bulk the best place to get them is online, both Cadbury Creme Eggs and Cadbury Caramel Mini Eggs can be bought in boxes of 48 from Cadbury Gifts Direct.

Also from Cadbury are the Easter Egg Trail Packs which contains eighteen (small) mini eggs and the Easter Egg Trail Kit a hamper of chocolate with a selection of different sized hollow and filled eggs, both contain everything you need for your own big or small event.

chocolatebuttons also have bulk buy options for Mars, Galaxy and Lindt filled eggs in their filled Easter eggs section.

Lots and Lots of Mini Mini Eggs

Every now and then you just need a kilo or two if mini eggs and luckily you can buy them, both chocolatebuttons and The Chocolate Trading Company have foiled mini eggs by the bucketload, well in bags and drums.

The Lindt mini eggs are the smallest; each egg is about 25mm tall, solid milk chocolate and are in an assortment of different coloured foil wrappers. The eggs are available in three different pack sizes, a 200g bag, a 1kg bag or a massive 2kg drum.

The Chocolate Trading Company’s own brand eggs are larger; each egg is 40mm, filled milk, white and dark chocolate and are also in an assortment of different coloured foil wrappers. These are only available in a 1kg bag.

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.

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Large Chocolate Bunny “Warren”

Suzie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:01:41 +0000

Meet “Warren” the giant milk chocolate Easter bunny from Thorntons.

Standing a very tall 47cm tall, that’s a massive 18 and half inches! And weighing 1.5kg he is the largest chocolate bunny around!

Affectionately known as Warren by all at Thorntons, he is sculpted from milk chocolate, with a very cute face and huge smile, one ear is bent over and he clutching a basket of eggs.

An adorable novelty chocolate model, pefect for a whole family to nibble on or a gift for a very very lucky person! And if you are giving this very large chocolate bunny as a gift you can have the lucky recipient’s name iced on his tummy for free.

£49.99, 1500g.

Labelled: Vegetarian.

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Diabetic Easter Egg Thorntons No Added Sugar

Suzie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:25:15 +0000

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.

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Thorntons – Love Toffee Egg – Luxury Easter Eggs

Suzie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:46:42 +0000

Thorntons Special Toffee Egg, milk chocolate crammed with crunchy toffee pieces.

Perfect for anyone that loves Thorntons toffee, this great looking milk Easter egg comes with 2 bags of Thorntons Special Toffee.

You can also have a message iced onto the egg; see the Thorntons site for more details.

A simply irresistible Easter treat for lovers of Thorntons and toffee.

£12.00, 610g.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

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Thorntons – Dairy Free Dark Chocolate Egg

Suzie — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:11:06 +0000

This dairy free Easter egg is one of two eggs exclusively available online, and only from the Thorntons site, the other is a Fair Trade egg – with the same packaging but in gold foil.

The smart but universal presentation of green foil and a ribbon tied bag means this dark chocolate Easter egg is visually suitable for all ages.

This is more than just a Dairy Free dark chocolate Easter egg, “It has been made under strictly controlled conditions to prevent any cross contamination from nuts, dairy, egg and gluten.” quoted from Thorntons website.

I have taken that to mean that it is suitable for vegans and people with some food intolerances and food allergies;

Vegan, as it is dairy free and egg free.
Dairy Free, suitable for anyone with lactose intolerance.
Nut Free, for anyone with nut allergies.
Egg free, for anyone with egg allergies.
Gluten Free, suitable for anyone with a wheat allergy or Celiac/Coeliac disease.

However as the egg is not specifically labelled as any of the above, that does mean there is no guarantee. As always, it is always best to check.

Allergy UK have a useful website with information on allergies and food intolerance.

I have to say considering the “strictly controlled conditions” this egg was made in, at only £6.50 it seems rather good value for money, especially when you consider the difference in price of organic and non-organic food.

£6.50, 120g of dark dairy free chocolate.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Dairy Free and Gluten Free.

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Thorntons – Love Fudge – Luxury Easter Eggs

Suzie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:39:25 +0000

I do love Thorntons fudge, especially the vanilla and this luxury Easter egg has bits of fudge in the shell of the egg!

This milk chocolate eggs also comes with two bags of Thorntons vanilla fudge as well, so if you know anyone that loves fudge the “Love Fudge” Easter egg would be perfect.

The Easter egg comes in a rather nicely designed clear box, so you can see the Easter egg inside, with an orange, brown and beige pattern on it. You can also have a message iced onto the egg; see the Thorntons site for more details.

£12.00 for 635g milk chocolate Easter egg, I presume the weight includes the bags of fudge.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.