It may be three-quarters of the way through May, but I’m still eating Easter eggs. There’s something joyful about chocolate in any shape beyond a bar (and obvs, that’s fun, too), and when I did feature some Easter eggs at the appropriate time, a few readers wrote in to say that price-per-gram Easter eggs were expensive and bars were better value. ‘Then buy the bars,’ I gently suggested. ‘But the eggs are more fun.’ Well exactly and fun, as any Tory government will tell you, costs.
I was late to try Éponine’s eggs (actually, half filled eggs), called Sn’eggs, £7, but I asked, ‘Why not keep making them for those of us who like a little out-of-season subversion?’ And they are going to! Not only that but they are going to do specials for occasions throughout the year (there was a tea and biscuits one for the coronation). All that I tried were gobsmackingly delicious, but my favourite was the roasted peanut and caramel, which was like a very posh, delicious and expensive way of saying look, these things are made by human hand, not machine. The Strawberry Cheesecake was not absolutely my thing (bit sweet for me), but highly praised by my testers and a thing of utter beauty if sliced.
Pierre Marcolini has done a box of Petits Bonheurs, £45 for 32 small rectangles of exquisite praline happiness in four variations. The almond coffee praline was my standout favourite. If you like pralines, like your chocolate very good, and in small portions, this could last you a month, but £45 is a lot to shell out, so smaller packets are available – £7 for five pieces (go for the coffee version, you won’t be disappointed).
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