Easter only rivals Chrtistmas for childlike excitement, whatever your age. For while the tree is back in the cupboard and baubles have been carefully wrapped in tissue paper for an 11-month hibernation, it’s thoughts of delicious Easter eggs that keep us looking forward to the spring.
Easter usually takes place in April, although the date tends to move around in accordance with the lunar calendar. For the pub quizzers: it takes place on the first full moon on or after 21 March (the Spring Equinox). This year, Good Friday takes place on April 7, Easter Sunday on April 9 while Easter Monday will be marked after the weekend on April 10.
So, the countdown is well and truly on to find an Easter egg that’ll blow all the others out of the water. Whether you’re looking for a chocolatey confection for friends, family or just to feast on yourself, there’s plenty of choice on offer. Who needs the Easter Bunny anyway?
From giant orbs of milk chocolate to hand painted eggs that belong on an art gallery plinth, we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to selecting the perfect Easter egg. But if this year is the one you really want to push the boat out, welcome to the heady world of the UK’s weird and wonderful Easter eggs.
These are creations that will either leave you gobsmacked in awe, rubbing your hands with glee or reaching for your phone to show off - as we must with all clever little morsels we’re about to shove in our gobs - on your socials. The best ones will have you doing all three.
Feeling hyped? Good. Get ready to dive in and shop our list of the best - before they sell out.
Let’s get cracking
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Deliveroo Southern Fried Choc'n
Haven't found the Easter egg of your dreams yet, or just plain disorganised? Deliveroo to the rescue. The food delivery app has dreamed up one of the weirdest eggs we've seen this year, while also neatly asking the age-old chicken-or-egg question. Pairing two guilty pleasures in an unlikely duo, 'Roos egg puts southern fried chicken spices onto a milk chocolate egg shell for - drumroll please - Southern Fried Choc'n.
You can get this Frankenfood from the app on April 6 for £3.99 if you live in London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow - but only while stocks last. Will it rule the roost or give you a clucking tummyache? Only the brave will find out.
Buy now £3.99, Deliveroo
Morrisons all-cheese Easter eggs
Who needs choc when you can have cheese? Morrisons is saving Easter for shoppers who prefer curds over confectionary with two egg-shaped cheeses in its seasonal collection.
Choose from the handmade Lancashire & Cheddar or Stratford Blue Soft Cheese Easter Eggs, each just £5.
Delicious over Easter crumpets or as a fun cheeseboard centrepiece, they’re available in-store and online now.
Buy now, Morrisons
M&S Colin and the Easter Chick
Not exactly an egg, but who doesn’t have space at the table for a seasonal Colin the Caterpillar? For Easter, he’s joined by a very strange yet delicious-looking ‘chick’. The half size cakes promise to bring laughs and appreciation to any parties you’re holding, or going to, over the long weekend.
Buy now £10.00, Ocado
M&S Fried Egg Choccorn
M&S has upended the egg box this year to present an Easter collection that reinvests how we’ll eat our choc this year. Take this ‘fried egg’ for example, made of a base of sweet and salty popcorn ‘white’ and anchored with a ‘yolk’ made of salted caramel sauce. Perfect if you’re looking for a legit way to have chocolate for breakfast.
Buy now £5.00, Ocado
Chocolatician Dark chocolate and Bronze Cumberbunny
We very much hope BAFTA award-winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch is aware of this whimsical chocolatey take on his likeness from independent confectionery artist, Chocolatician.
The Imitation Game star’s face has been placed on a Belgian dark chocolate bunny body, complete with ears and a fluffy tail before being dusted in edible gold for good measure. The final detail of a bow tie ensures he’s ready to take part in the festivities.
The hand-moulded piece has a shelf-life of six months, although if you’re looking for a reason as to why, of all A-list actors, this company has decided to honour the Batch - well, it’s a mystery fit for Sherlock himself.
Buy now £43.00, Chocolatician
Betty’s Spring Bloom Easter Egg
Can’t get up to Yorkshire for a visit of Betty’s legendary tea rooms? Why not bring a piece of its Easter collection to your door instead? This year’s range is the most persuasive yet - take this limited edition silver lustre egg, hand finished with pretty icing illustrating seasonal flowers and bumblebees. This is one of the more modestly-priced eggs in the range. If you’re hosting a hunt or an Easter party, the 55cm high, 5.4kg Imperial egg (pictured right) will guarantee the gasps of awe your ears ache to hear (£375).
Buy now £40.00, Betty’s
LOOKFANTASTIC THE BOX: Beauty Egg Limited Edition
It is always one of the most sought-after gifts for the Easter season, multi-retailer LOOKFANTASTIC knocks it out of the park when it comes to its egg offering. For the sixth year and sure to follow suit in the long line of speedy sell outs, there are over £200 worth of products packed into the egg shell. The line-up includes seven full-sized items from big name brands like Sol De Janeiro, Elemis and Color Wow.
The full contents are: the Color Wow Speed Dry Blow Dry Spray, Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Cream, MZ Skin Hydra Lift Gold Mask, Elemis Superfood Glow Priming Moisturiser, Iconic LDN Triple Precision Brow Definer, Sweed Mascara and Grande Cosmetics Lip Pump. There’s also a deluxe sized eye shadow from Nudestix and the Ceramidin Cream from Dr Jart+.
Buy now £60.00, LOOKFANTASTIC
Butlers Farmhouse Cheese Cheddar Cheese Easter Egg Letterbox Gift
More of a savoury person? There’s no need to sit out Easter gorging with this letterbox hamper, which includes a cheddar cheese egg, along with Peter’s Yard crispbread and a jar of Tracklements Sticky Fig Relish. Deliveries are from March 20 and you should store in the fridge until you’re ready to scoff the lot.
Buy now £9.50, NOTHS
The Chocolate Gifting Company Hot Air Balloon white chocolate Easter egg 300g
Take to the skies this Easter with an egg ready for adventures. Made with premium white chocolate and speckled with candy-coloured chocolate speckles, this hot air balloon is the travel mode of choice for the Easter Bunny. A delightful creation the whole family can tuck into.
Buy now £19.99, Selfridges
ALDI Dairyfine Sundaes
The ALDI Easter range is only available in store but you will find unique and novelty creations like the Dairyfine Sundaes. Taking the idea of an Easter egg and running with it, the budget supermarket has created two flavours to mimic that of an indulgent ice cream sundae.
The first, Strawberry Sundae, has a pink chocolate shell adorned with white chooclate drizzle, strawberry pieces and mini eggs. The second is the Chocolate Fudge Sundae made from milk chocolate and embellished with a caramel chocolate drizzle, mini eggs and fudge pieces. Both are then topped with glace cherry.
Buy now £8.99, ALDI
Pierre Marcolini Egg on Flowers on two drawers
Chocolate is less treat and more lifeblood at luxury chocolatier Pierre Marcolini. Every year the Brussels-based shop pulls out all the stops with sugary creations to sate the sweet tooth of the country’s most discerning Easter egg-eaters. This year the collection is inspired by the tropics.
Perched on two drawers filled with dark, milk and white chocolate praline eggs and chocolate animals, sits the star of the show: a giant chocolate and praline egg. Emerging from water-lily leaves rendered in rich chocolate, it’s further adorned with dragonflies made from three different types of chocolate. This design is currently only available to buy in-store.
Buy now £149.00, Pierre Marcolini
World’s Smallest Easter Egg - Pack of 5
If you want to tickle friends and family with a novelty treat, you can find these teeny, individually-wrapped and boxed eggs at Amazon. A fun sweet to hand out at parties or make a hunt particularly challenging, each purchase includes five solid chocolate eggs. Let the games commence!
Buy now £4.99, Amazon
Niederegger Nostalgic Marzipan Eggs, 100g
For the marzipan lover in your life, you can’t go wrong with a gift from Niederegger. It presents its egg in a traditional egg-shaped box, illustrated with a family of rabbits. Inside individually wrapped marzipan, also egg-shaped, are ready to satisfy their sweet tooth.
Buy now £10.00, John Lewis
Montezuma’s Frizzle Dark Chocolate Hen with Cocoa Nibs, 200g
It’s the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Montezuma takes the side of poultry with this Easter-ready treat, shaped like a plump hen. Made with rich dark chocolate, it’s one for adults with a taste for the finer things.
Buy now £12.50, John Lewis
Fortnum & Mason Hand-Painted Chick Easter Egg
Almost too beautiful to eat, this Easter egg features a hand painted chick design that will be followed with awe when unwrapped. Ideal for gifting, the piece of food art has been made from Colombian milk chocolate, cocoa solids and a white chocolate layer and then decorated using natural pigments by chocolatiers in Wales.
Buy now £100.00, F&M
Bombay Sapphire Luxury Easter Egg with Gin Chocolate Truffles
Gin and chocolate - not it's not Christmas. Bombay Sapphire is delighting gin obsessives everywhere this Easter with a deluxe egg filled with 24 handmade Bombay Sapphire gin chocolate truffles for the ultimate in decadence. The handmade egg is made from white chocolate with a marbled effect. Naturally with such a beautiful creation, these are limited edition. Catch it while you can.
Buy now £47.00, Bombay Sapphire
Lindt Lindor Milk Chocolate Egg Plus Blood Orange Truffles 260g
Orange and chocolate get along famously, but Lindt is taking it one step further with a blood orange infusion for one of its Easter eggs this year. Inside the extra-large milk chocolate shell, you’ll find a bounty of the chocolatier’s truffles, spiked with tart blood orange to counteract the sweetness.
Buy now £9.00, Tesco
Venchi 1879 Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts Gourmet Egg
If you’re in the market for elegant sustenance, look no further than the Harrods food hall - which you can also shop from its website. This Venchi egg is the attention-grabbing egg you have been searching for.
With experience that dates back nearly 150 years, it’s a chocolatier that knows its way around an Easter egg. Balancing smooth milk chocolate with an inner layer of crunchy hazelnuts, it’s at once a flavour and texture explosion.
Buy now £65.00, Harrods
Harvey Nichols Everything’s Golden Dark Chocolate Praline-Filled Easter Egg with Praline Truffles 1kg
Praline and chocolate... name a better duo. That’s right, we can’t either.
From the praline and hazelnut filled outer shell to the melt-in-the-mouth truffles, everything about Harvey Nichols’ golden egg wins the first place award in our books. It’s no wonder considering it’s handmade in Notting Hill by an award winning confectioner.
Buy now £95.00, Harvey Nichols
Rococo Vegan Easter Chocolate Egg
Calling all vegans! You can get luxury plant-based chocolate, too.
Not only is the Rococo chocolate egg vegan, but each of the extra surprises inside is shaped like your favourite veggies (we’re talking carrots, spinach and sweetcorn), and is flavoured with them, too.
Your five-a-day never tasted so good.
Buy now £32.95, Amazon
Joe & Seph’s Chocolate Popcorn Mini Eggs
This may have the look of a sharing pouch with a resealable lip to keep the 60g stash of popcorn-studded mini eggs fresh, but we’d be amazed if you didn’t polish off the lot in a single sitting. Half egg shells of milk chocolate surround salted caramel-flavoured popcorn and are small enough to pop into your mouth at a dizzying speed. The irresistible combo of sweet-salt means it has family-wide appeal but we think it’s best for everyone if you happen to find and enjoy them on your own private hunt.
Also available from the brand.
Buy now £2.95, Ocado
Ladurée White Green Chocolate Rabbit
It doesn't get sweeter than Ladurée's collection of chocolate rabbits, ready to hop into Easter celebrations. Available in dark, milk and pink coloured chocolate, and with a flower crown fixed upon its ears, each bunny comes housed in the French brand's chic floral boxes made especially for the season.
Buy now £15.00, Ladurée
Daylesford Raw Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Filled Egg
Your search for the golden egg stops at Daylesford. The organic food company is offering something very special for Easter celebrations this year: a perfect life-sized egg made with sustainable Peruvian cacao given the Midas touch. Weighing 50g, it’s a sweet to enjoy solo and the wooden egg cup can be continued to be used for eggs and soldiers breakfasts afterwards.
Buy now £15.00, Daylesford
Claridge's Easter Eggs
Handcrafted over a period of three days, a great deal of crafstmanship has gone into Claridge’s Easter Eggs - alongside a good helping of the finest chocolate for the shell which is filled with delicious hazelnut and almond praline gull’s eggs.
Available in milk, dark or white, each style is wrapped in stylish monochrome Art Deco foil and is encased in the hotel’s signature jade box. Decadence at its best.
Buy now £65.00, Claridge’s
