Hotel Chocolat Your Eggsellency Extra Thick Easter Egg

The perfect milk chocolate Easter egg for non-connoisseurs has be made out of what I call “session chocolate“. Much of the chocolate that the supermarkets sell is either far too sweet or tastes as dull as dishwater. The standard milk chocolate couverture that Hotel Chocolat use is absolutely...

Thorntons Fudge Easter Egg

It’s a strange fact of live that there are hoards of people that love insanely sweet chocolate. Occasionally I’m one of those, but the phase passes very quickly. A square inch of this Full ‘O’ Fudge Easter egg from Thorntons is enough to satisfy my sugar cravings for at least a month,...

Paul Wayne Gregory’s Mango Easter Egg

Paul Wayne Gregory has not only created the most difficult to photograph Easter egg in the history of chocolate, but perhaps also the most simply decadent. The vast majority of Easter eggs I see shout at me. They’re bright and brash. The packaging craves and pleads for your attention. You open the...

Betty’s Old-Spot Easter Egg

Over the past few years I’ve always been impressed with the Easter eggs and chocolate gifts that Betty’s have created. Whether it’s the Saddleback Pig, badger egg or one flavoured with Lily of the Valley, they’ve always hit the mark. Given the opportunity to review another of their...

Ferrero Rocher Milk Chocolate Bunny

Easter chocolate bunnies never seem great value for money. You could say I’m prejudiced against them. Lindt bunnies are just dreadful. They taste sweet and oily. So I sat here with this Ferrero Rocher milk chocolate bunny and looked at my Tesco receipt and saw that I paid £2.99 for it and my heart...

Cocoa Mountain Milk Chocolate Easter Egg

Cocoa Mountain has made some of the best truffles made in Britain and last year they made a dark chocolate Easter egg filled with lemon grass truffles - they were utterly fantastic. This year they’ve changed tack a touch and have gone for more of the affordable approach where you can buy four...