Organic White Chocolate Egg with Raspberry & Coconut Smash

Now the Organic White Chocolate Egg with Raspberry & Coconut Smash from Natural Collection looks like a stunner of an Easter egg!

The egg has handmade thick white chocolate but has a unique "work of art" decorating the shell.

The unique part is that it has tangy raspberry and coconut with the organic white chocolate so it should be a nicely balanced flavour.

The egg may not be suitable for vegans and may contain nuts, gluten, soya and milk.

They're not even bad for the £15.95 price when you consider how unique they are. Take a look yourself at Natural Collection.

Green & Blacks Organic White Chocolate Easter Egg

Now I must confess, I'm not the greatest white chocolate lover in the world. But I thought I must review the Green & Blacks Organic White Chocolate Easter Egg out of fairness and completeness.

When I first got it out of the big box that Ethical Superstore sent me, I was pleasantly surprised with what I was greeted with. The box is delightfully simple and does show exactly that its a white chocoalte egg with a hint of vanilla.

When you take the egg out of the packaging you can see why its only £2.99 as its not the biggest egg in the World ever. As you're not spending big money, you can't really complain.


When you take the egg out of its foil you'll notice an intense aroma, it's very strong and sickly. You'll also see that the egg has a speckily design which I believe is all the natural vanilla.

The interesting bit is when you taste it, its very light and not as overpowering as the aroma. I'm not sure if I could eat a whole one, but I'm sure many of you will absolutely love it.

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You can get it from Ethical Superstore.

Easter Eggs Rating: 6/10

Thorntons Organic Easter Egg

If you didn't want to spend £60 on an egg from Hotel Chocolate or £15 from Thorntons, you can get a nice Organic Easter egg for just £2.99 from Thorntons. Its also an Easter egg that's suitable for Vegetarians and is gluen free.

You may not be able to personalise it with icing, but its still a very good quality Easter egg for a reasonable price.

You can find more infomation here.

Green & Blacks Organic 70% Dark Chocolate Egg

I was really looking forward to this egg as I love dark chocolate. I was slightly dissapointed however.

The box does look fantastic. The golden wrapping adds a sense of quality and the six mini praline mini-eggs look like there'll be a little bit of extra luxury.

When opening up the box the aroma was not as strong as I'd thought it woudld be, and that was a slight disapointment. The taste was also strange. It started off quite agricultural. I don't want to say the word sewerage as that wouldn't be fair. But it's the taste of fermenting hay - perhaps because its organic? That taste only lasts for a moment and then subsides into a nice bitter tang.



One nice characteristic is that the chocolate is quite thick. It's certainly not a lighweight egg at 180g seeing as it's not compromised by a couple of chocolate bars - which is the case with most of the cheaper alternatives.

The mini pralines are exceptionally nice, if a bit too small. Of course there is a distinct advantage knowing that you're eating organic and that its suitable for vegitarians although they do say that it is manufactured in an environment where gluten and ceral products are also handled. The downside is that if you react unfavourably to nuts then you couldn't try the pralines.

Easter Eggs Rating: 7 / 10

You can buy the Green & Blacks Organic 70% Dark Chocolate Egg from:
Green & Blacks
Ethical Supertore offer (save £5 when you spend £20 with the discount code "X5WFF" - until 3rd March):
Green & Blacks Organic Dark Chocolate Egg 110g - £2.99
Green & Blacks Organic Dark Chocolate Mini Eggs - £3.99
Green and Blacks Organic Dark Chocolate Easter Egg with Mini Eggs - £5.99

Featured in: The Independent

Ethical / Fairtrade Easter Egg Review

New Consumer have done a review of ethical / organic and fairtrade Easter eggs. So which are the best? Watch their reviews:

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Dubble Fairtrade Egg - Simply Fair
It's for kids and tastes "very sweet" they gave it 3 out of 15 and you can get it from Supermarkets and independent shops.

Dark Chocolate Fairtrade Chocolate Pod 
£3.50ish from Sainsbury's - they said it was very bitter and strong. They gave it 8 out of 15.

Sainsburys organic milk chocolate egg
They like it, and describe it as "gentle but full of taste"
£4.99ish from Sainsbury's. They gave it 13 out of 15.

Divine Dark Chocolate Fairtrade Easter Egg - Simply Fair
"Dark, bitter, nothing special", "a bit too strong", "uninteresting"
£4.99 - £5,49 from supermarkets and independents. They gave it 7 out of 15.

Duchy Originals Organich Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
"Doesn't taste of anything", "quite nice" and "fairly light, it's ok"
£8.99 from supermarkets and independents. 7 out of 15.

Booja Booja Truffle Egg
Made in Norfolk, "a very tastey truffle, rich and delicious", "smooth and nutty, very nice", "not an egg" - £5.95ish from GoodnessDirect. 11 out of 15.

Stamp Collection Organic Bunny
"Dark chocolate but sweeter than normal", "tastes like chalk", "something's missing".
£3.99ish from supermarkets and independents. 5 out of 15.

Chocolate Alchemists Dark Chocolate Ginger Organic Egg
"Tastes amazing with the ginger", "not brilliant", "very posh".
£13.50 from Abel & Cole. 8 out of 15

Sainsbury's have done a good job and make their entire Fairtrade product range on the site for you to read. Here's the list. At 23/01/08 they stock:

* Caley's Cholcolo 220G
* Geobar raisin & apricot 90% fat free x 6
* Geobar chocolate and raisin x 6 210G
* Geobar cranberry and raisin Bar x6 210G
* Divine Fairtrade milk chocolate 100G
* Dubble chocolate crisp bar 40G
* Divine Fairtrade dark chocolate 100g
* Dubble chocolate crisp bar 40g also at Simply Fair
* Sainsbury's Fairtrade Organic milk chocolate 100g
* Sainsbury's Fairtrade Organic dark chocolate 100g
* Green & Blacks Maya Gold Organic dark chocolate 100g
* Oxfam Fairtrade chocolate feast 165g
* Oxfam Fairtrade chocolate eggs 150g
* Oxfam Fairtrade chocolate box 175g
* Oxfam Organic Fairtrade Mascamilk chocolate
* Oxfam Fairtrade Rica honey chocolate
* Fairtrade plain/milk/cappucino/praline chocolate 100g
* Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Fairtrade chocolate cocoa pod 150g
* Green & Blacks Maya gold chocolate egg 100g also at Simply Fair
* The Day choc co dubble easter egg 140g
* Divine chocolate mini eggs 250g

Thorntons Organic Easter Egg

Thorntons appear to be a bit more understated than Hotel Chocolat, but I'm sure they're just as nice.

They've got a very reasonably priced 150g organic Easter egg for just £2.99!

Organic Chocolates

Featured: Chocolate Trading Co. / Green & Blacks / Ethical Superstore

There are a number of chocolate retailers that offer Organic Chocolate. Here's a selection and what you can expect from them:

Chocolate Trading Company:

• Organic Around Midnight espresso truffles by Booja Booja
• Organic Champagne truffles
• Organic cognac flambed banana truffles
• Organic Hazelnut Crunch Truffles (80g)
• Organic gourmet truffle selection box
• Cao Grande, Organic milk bar
  
• Organic Ginger Wine Truffles
  

Green & Blacks:
They offer a whole range of chocolate bars including: white, milk, butterscotch, almond, rainson & hazelnut, Maya gold, Hazelnut & currant, ginger, cherry, mint, dark 70% and dark 85%.

Ethical Superstore:
They have a wide range of organic chocolate gifts and should really be a good shop to look at. You can also pay to have the carbon emissions mitigated by having a tree planted.

Prestat - Luxury Organic Handmade Chocolate & Truffles

Has anyone tried Prestat Chocolates before? I've never heard of them!

The offer chocolate assortments, Milk, Dark, white chocolates, Artisan chocolates, organic chocolates, single origin chocolates as well as chocolate & flowers and chocolates & wine gifts.

Green & Blacks Luxury Organic / Fairtrade Chocolate

Now I used it have this on special occassions when I was a kid on a Friday night sat with my parents watching TV. It was like an end of week treat and boy do I still look forward to the odd bit of Green & Blacks!!

Doesn't just looking at the range of chocolates they have on offer make you drool? Thinking of Easter Sunday morning and softly tearing open the box to reveal a fanstastically fragrant Green & Black's Organic Easter Egg will be delightful!!

If you didn't want to go for an Easter Egg, you could try and get something like the "Hot Chocolate Indulgence gift set, or the "Wine & Chocolate Assortment" collection. But if you want to be really chocolate-indulgent-fantastic then try the Yearly Green & Blacks Chocolate Bar Subscription for just £70!!

Visit: Green & Blacks