So much to say this week on Easter offerings.
Two top recommends. If super-thick chocolate (milk and dark), hazelnuts, feuilletine praline and caramel are your thing, then you need Gabriella Cugno’s epic nearly half a kilo offering, £40, and hands down the best Easter egg I’ve ever tasted. Aurosò’s Moonshine Easter box, £49, has 15 rum and gin truffles with two 90% super tasty egg tablets studded with whisky-soaked raisins, pine nuts and rosemary. Perfect if you prefer your chocolate darker.
For beautiful, ethical chocolate in eco packaging (a feat of paper cutting) Chocolarder is where to look for your eggs, £22. There’s a dark sail-shipped version, dark milks and an oat-milk vegan egg.
If you like mini eggs, but want something less sugary than the very popular Cadbury’s versions, then look at Doisy & Dam’s 70% Colombian chocolate sugar-coated version, £1.99.
I also loved Dormouse’s Easter pancake bar made of 55% milk chocolate with wafer pieces, drizzled with lemon-flavoured white chocolate and maple candy pieces, £5; Sicilian pistachio cream filled eggs, £12, from Strazzanti; and Eponine’s frankly amazing, beautiful and vegan (which I totally didn’t know or guess) hot cross bun bar, £7.50. Bullion’s caramel-filled build-your-own eggs, £5.50, remain a favourite from last year – orange and coffee for me, thank you. And if you like bunnies, but want something a bit more grown-up, look at Paul A Young’s Bill Bunny in 72% or 46%, £9.95 each – great chocolate splodged with colour. Phew.
