Best luxury Easter eggs 2022: Blonde, dark and milk chocolate, tried and tested

Best: Honeycomb egg

Rating: 9.5/10

Calling all crunchie-lovers, this is the egg for you. It’s an entire 400g of deliciousness and comes in entirely plastic-free packaging too.

The exterior of the pointy egg is splattered with orange flecks, and inside the shell of the egg is the real treat; huge chunks of wonderfully crunchy and chewy honeycomb. Don’t imagine small bits though: these are basically like “funsize” bars, and there’s lots of them. The honeycomb comes from a local producer in Dorset, while the rest of the egg is made with 45 per cent milk chocolate of Venezuelan origin. It’s a darker style of milk that’s still creamy, but with an added coca depth that we love.

Best: White chocolate egg

Rating: 9/10

As London’s oldest chocolatier, Rococo is one of our favourite chocolate makers at IndyBest. It consistently makes excellent quality chocolate, whether that’s bars, boxes for gifting or little treats. The brand’s Seagull eggs were also featured in our guide to the best gifts for foodies, where we said they were “mini bites of actual heaven, that are worth every bit of the £12 price tag”.

And this Easter egg, which is new for this year, is no different. This is the thickest and one of the sweetest eggs we’ve tested. The white chocolate has a sweet butterscotch flavour, with a hint of biscuit too.

Best of all, inside is a little packet of popcorn, coated in a thick layer of the blondie chocolate. The boxes are also gorgeous – we can’t bear to recycle it, so we’re keeping it to use for storage.

Best: Mini eggs

Rating: 8/10

We’re big fans of this brand, not only for its chocolate (of course) but also for its ever-so-cool packaging designs. This year’s Easter theme by artist Marco Oggian features ducks. But don’t think pretty yellow fluffy things; this design is reminiscent of American artist Keith Haring’s drawings.

Coming in classic springy pastel shades of yellow, pale pink and mint green sugary hard shells, these eggs are bigger than your average Cadburys mini egg, and, more importantly, have a decedent praline centre. The interior is creamy, but not super soft, and has that nutty tang praline is known for. There’s only a handful in the packet, but they’re mighty in taste.

Best: Half and half egg

Rating: 8.5/10

Some chocoholics just can’t choose between milk or dark – Love Coca hears your plight and has answered it with this half and half egg. One side features 70 per cent Peruvian single origin dark chocolate, which we really love as it’s still slightly creamy and not too bitter, as chocolate at this percentage sometimes can be. The other side is made up of 41 per cent milk chocolate, which is deliciously milky. Inside, meanwhile, is a little bag of decadent salted caramel truffles.

Love Coca works with small family-run cocoa producers in Colombia who have been in business for more than 100 years, so they really know what they’re doing. This also means that it knows each step of its supply chain, ensuring no one is exploited and that every stage actively benefits from the production. We also really like this brand for its eco-credentials; it’s plastic-free, does not include palm oil and, for every bar bought, it plants mango trees in eastern Kenya, which provide ecosystems and protect against flooding. To date, it has planted more than a million trees.

Best: Brownie Easter egg

Rating: 9/10

These are without doubt the most beautiful eggs we came across. Decorated with real edible flowers, it’s hard for them not to catch your eye. Once you bite into the half eggs, you realise there’s even more to them than meets the eye, as they’re actually brownies, encased in a layer of delicious milk chocolate. These are serious business for the real brownie lover in your life.

Each box contains six, from dark, white to milk, and even for us it’s too hard to choose our favourite, so we suggest going for the mix. They’re handmade and make a really super present that will no doubt bring a smile to your giftee’s face. Let’s just hope they open them when you’re there too.

Best: Egg for gifting

Rating: 8.5/10

You will no doubt recognise Charbonnel et Walker for it’s round boxes of luxurious truffles (we love the champagne ones the most). For Easter it’s had a festive makeover, with this gorgeous cardboard tube decorated with bunnies, birds and pink, yellow and blue spring flowers. It’s so adorable we’re working out how we can reuse it.

Pull off the outer lid and at the top is an array of different dark truffles. There’s no little menu like in a box of chocolates, but we promise that if you’re brave, you’ll get no nasty surprises. Unless you hate a strawberry creme, that is. We’re big fans though. The rest are a mix of truffles. Then, you’ll  notice there’s a little gold ribbon tab at the bottom, and underneath is the main event. Nested in shredded paper is a small Easter egg, wrapped and finished with ribbon. It’s all pretty extravagant, but makes for a great egg to give to someone really special (or yourself, no judgement). The dark chocolate has a rough texture on the outside, and is nicely thick. It’s also available in milk chocolate.

Best: For looks

Rating: 8/10

This egg was too pretty to eat… almost. Of course, we had to eat it, but that doesn’t mean breaking the glistening blue shell wasn’t a little bit heartbreaking. The hand-painted design was inspired by a beautiful spring meadow.

With its hues of grass green and bright blue sky dotted with flowers, this egg is double layered. The exterior is white chocolate that’s been hand-painted, while the inside layer is milk. It’s deliciously creamy chocolate is of Daylesford’s usual high quality.

Due to the fragility of the egg, it still does come in a plastic box, but it’s made from 60 per cent recycled materials, and the entirety of the packaging can also be recycled easily.

Best: Non-egg-shaped egg

Rating: 8.5/10

True to Heston’s style, this “egg” is non-conforming, with unexpected flavour combinations, although these aren’t as wild as some of his previous creations. And we’re ok with that.

Resisting a traditional egg shape (or really, anything spring-like at all), apparently the inspiration here comes from Newton discovering gravity through the apple dropping from the tree.

It certainly looks good thanks to its shimmery gold coating. The hollow apple, which is bigger than a large fist, is made up of one layer of chocolate, which is actually white and flavoured with caramelised sugar, while the inside layer is dark. The two of them work in tandem to create a deliciously pleasing creamy treat. As you break into the apple, they do come apart, so you can eat them separately if you fancy the full sugary hit, or the more bitter dark layer, on its own.

It also comes with six little “apples”, which are actually little semicircle praline truffles that are shimmering red. All of the chocolate is made using Fairtrade cacao. Sadly, there’s still a decent amount of plastic packaging, although it can be recycled.

Best: Truffles

Rating: 8.5/10

Mixing booze and chocolate often gets a bad rep thanks to the use of very questionable liquors – and quite rightly so. But, of course, Prestat has not made that mistake.

This small but impressive egg is beautifully presented. The milk egg is, as it says, creamy and of a decent thickness. Inside the egg is a handful of delicious tuffles that are filled with silky smooth champagne ganache that’s oh-so moreish and decadent. They’re made using the same grapes used for the champagne of the same name.

It is small but perfectly formed and makes another superb gift.

Best: Packaging

Rating: 8/10

Headed up by pastry chef Mike Longman since 2012, this bean-to-bar brand has really shaken things up with its packaging. Shunning traditional plastic moulds to protect its precious shells, it uses hexagonal cardboard.

Made by master chocolatiers in Falmouth, the cacao comes from the Gola rainforest in Sierra Leone, where charities work with local farmers to ensure it is produced sustainably and has been fairly traded. The brand even claims that it’s slavery-free, as well as its products being free from palm oil and refined sugars. Instead of the latter, the brand uses toasted whole oats and unrefined sugars to give the chocolate a creaminess without the need for dairy. We really loved the taste of this delectable egg which is well balanced with hints of oats and hazelnuts, making it a great one for both milk and dark chocolate lovers.

Best: Flavoured egg

Rating: 7.5/10

White chocolate is much more than just Milky Bar for adults… and Easter eggs are not always chocolate eggshells either. Coming from Italy’s oldest chocolate-making family, dating back to 1796, this large, egg-shaped slab is coated with a chunky, diagonal splattering of tiny grains of hazelnut and pistachio to give it a more grown-up appeal. It’s the perfect gift for a white-chocolate-loving adult. It’s creamy and crunchy and a welcome change from the norm.