Mini eggs have such a special place in our hearts and mouths. I’ve heard of them getting people through exams, divorce, long train journeys, sickbeds. When I say mini eggs I mean a sugar-coated, egg-shaped confection containing chocolatey things.
Marks & Spencer does an acceptable ‘every day’ version for £2 a bag (Speckled Eggs). If you want to go posh, then you cannot better Chocolate Detective’s Blue Tit Eggs (go for the praline version), £14.50. Every single person I have introduced these to has gone on to order them again and again.
If you like nut butter, though, and it’s been established I do, then Montezuma’s Peanut Butter Mini Eggs, £4.99, are epic (no sugar-coating, just FYI). My testers went really – sorry – nuts for them. Like a rabid pack of dogs. I tipped them out into a little ‘nonna’ bowl on my dining table and watched them fight it out. The milk version was preferred, but be warned, it’s really hard to stop eating them.
Can I tell you about some delightful cups and hot chocolate? Peta of lovely Lumi Chocolate fame has started throwing pots and they are absolutely gorgeous. I have a lot of cups, but the moment I got one of hers, I started using it every day. There’s something about having an item made by human hands that has become so important to me now.
My current favourite on the Lumi website is the blue/green mug, £20, which is very similar to the one which I have. You get 100g of hot chocolate to go with it and what a lovely present this would make.
