I tasted the best luxury Easter eggs – the supermarket winner tastes better than Lindt and Hotel Chocolat and is cheaper
LET’S face it, you’re never too old for a visit from the Easter bunny, especially if he leaves you something extra luxurious.
With opulent packaging, intricate designs and the creamiest chocolate money can buy, some of this year’s eggs offer serious wow factor.
I scoured the shelves to find the finest chocolate treats for Easter 2024 to see which ones offer the most and tastiest chocolate for your buck. Here are my favourites:
Hotel Chocolat Extra Thick Egg Milk to Caramel – 490g
- £29.45, hotelchocolat.com
- £6.01 per 100g
This luxurious, chunky chocolate egg splits in two. One side has puffed rice and cookies in the milk chocolate giving it a luxurious rice crispy cake vibe.
The other side is malty caramel milk. Both sides were creamy and rich with just the right level of sweet.
Inside the egg is a selection of Hotel Chocolat’s greatest hits including caramel bunnies, praline mini eggs and delicious fudge sundaes.
It’s expensive but you get more chocolate for your money than I’d have thought. The tin is reusable too, saving on waste.
- Taste: 10/10
- Value: 8/10
- Wow factor: 10/10
- Overall score: 9/10
Martins Chocolatier Thick Chocolate Easter Egg with Popping Candy
- £17.75, amazon.co.uk
- £5.91 per 100g
This Belgian milk chocolate is thick and good quality with a lovely creamy taste.
The popping candy will divide opinion but its a lovely addition for younger egg lovers and its certainly a talking point.
It comes with nine truffles and pralines and a pretty useless wooden mallet to help you get into it. Be aware some Amazon reviewers said it melted before it was delivered, though mine arrived perfectly in tact.
- Taste: 7/10
- Value: 7/10
- Wow factor: 9/10
- Overall score: 7/10
Thorntons Classic Easter Egg
- £8, thorntons.com
- £3.64 per 100g
Many of the more luxurious eggs had a very thick chocolate shell which hard to get your teeth into.
This was thin, creamy, smooth and easy to eat. The egg was delicate with an attractive pink swirl and it comes with a box of five Thorntons favourites including crunchy pralines.
Not such a show-stopper as others but great value and delicious.
- Taste: 7/10
- Value: 8/10
- Wow factor: 6/10
- Overall score: 7/10
M&S Handcrafted Golden Blond Chocolate Egg
- £12, ocado.com
- £4.11 per 100g
A chic, grown-up egg made of golden blond chocolate. It’s dotted with crispy feuilletine pieces which are sweetie bits made from thin, sweetened crepes . It also has a touch of pink Himalayan rock salt, but this isn’t enough to level out all the sweet.
It also has the signature M&S chocolate plaque.
Not bad value and a showstopper, this would make a lovely gift.
- Taste: 8/10
- Value: 9/10
- Wow factor: 10/10
- Overall score: 8/10
Lindt Lindor Dark Chocolate Egg
- £12, lindt.com
- £4.62 per 100g
Lindt has really pulled it out of the bag with this luxurious 70 per cent cocoa dark chocolate egg. The hidden cocoa-dusted truffles inside that really stole the show.
These decadent treats were filled with a smooth, melt-in-the-mouth filling and even though they were rich, it was virtually impossible to stop at just one.
- Taste: 10/10
- Value: 9/10
- Wow factor: 8/10
- Overall score: 9/10
Waitrose No 1 Hidden Truffles Milk Chocolate Easter Egg
- £12, waitrose.com
- £5.59 per 100g
This Waitrose egg is a generous size, with bitter notes, a nice texture and it slowly melts in the mouth when you take a bite.
I loved the champagne truffles which gave you a boozy hit and were filed with a smooth indulgent ganache. It was a little rich and perhaps a little pricey per 100g but it looked impressive and tasted delicious.
- Taste: 8/10
- Value: 6/10
- Wow factor: 8/10
- Overall score: 8/10
Bailey’s Salted Caramel Egg (215g)
- £14.99, amazon.co.uk
- £7 per 100g
A great gift for any Baileys fans, this is a hollow Baileys flavoured milk chocolate egg with little salted caramel pieces.
The taste is subtle but distinctive and the chocolate is creamy and smooth. If you like Baileys, you’ll like it but I wasn’t blown away.
In the box, you also get four mini milk chocolates filled with a Baileys and salted caramel filling.
- Taste: 6/10
- Value: 5/10
- Wow factor: 6/10
- Overall score: 5/10
Love Cocoa Luxury Milk Chocolate Egg
- £30, lovecocoa.com
- £10 per 100g
Love Cocoa was founded by James Cadbury, the great-great-great grandson of the original Mr Cadbury and this egg has great eco credentials.
The thick egg shell is made with a rich Colombian milk chocolate but I have to admit, I found it rather bland.
Inside are mini eggs crafted with Ecuadorian chocolate, which look like real bird eggs.
They ooze with caramel, but I found them too sickly. It comes in a lovely gift box, but this is mega expensive too.
- Taste: 5/10
- Value: 4/10
- Wow factor: 8/10
- Overall score: 6/10
Asda Cocoa Noir Showstopping Egg
- £15, asda.com
- £4.28 per 100g
An extraordinary looking baroque creation, this really stands out and you’d never guess it was from Asda.
What’s more the chocolate is tasty and thick and has a lovely snap and a rich cocoa flavour.
The squidgy gianduja red-coloured egg inside had a lovely nutty, hazelnut flavour and there are gold-dusted cream-liqueur mini eggs with it as well. This is top work from Asda. It’s outstandingly good value.
- Taste: 10/10
- Value: 10/10
- Wow factor: 10/10
- Overall score: 10/10
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chunky Ultimate Easter Egg
- £14.99, worldwidehide.cadbury.co.uk
- £3.74 per 100g
A deliciously thick milk chocolate egg, you really can’t go far wrong with Cadbury.
It hasn’t got the bells and whistles of some of the others, but it’s big and the chocolate is as delicious and reliable as you’d expect from Cadbury. For many of us, that’s enough.
But if you need more convincing, it’s good value too – it’s the second cheapest per 100g of chocolate in this test, beaten only by Thorntons.
- Taste: 10/10
- Value: 10/10
- Wow factor: 8/10
- Overall score: 9/10
We’ve also tried supermarket own-brand Easter eggs and .