This year’s crop of Easter treats ranges from charming chocolate animals to showstopping eggs designed for serious sharing – all sourced from artisans across a new breed of bean-to-bar makers right through to the country’s most celebrated heritage food halls. These, then, are the ones worth cracking into this Easter.
Chococo
Oat M!Lk Chocolate Spring Chicken (VF), £10
Husband-and-wife team Andy and Claire Burnet are behind Dorset-based Chococo, the Academy of Chocolate Awards-garlanded brand founded in 2002 and widely credited with helping blaze a trail for UK artisan chocolatiers. We love this adorable Spring Chicken, part of its 43% oat m!lk chocolate range. Sweet in every sense of the word. Buy it.
Birley Bakery
Large Dark Chocolate Easter Bunny, £86
Birley Bakery, the French-inspired boulangerie-pâtisserie from Robin Birley’s stable of private members’ clubs, produces exquisite bread and viennoiserie daily from its Chelsea site, while its chocolate is made in small batches using a custom blend of Philippine cacao. Everything here is, frankly, irresistible – but this Easter we’re especially taken with its sleek yet charming 700g dark chocolate bunny, decorated with delicate sugar-iced flowers. Not in the market to spend £86 on your Easter treats (an entirely fair position, might we add)? There’s also a more modest £13 bunny, which is equally delightful. Buy it.
Birley Bakery
Extra Large Milk & Dark Chocolate Egg, £290
At the other end of the Easter spectrum sits Birley Bakery’s chocolate behemoth, a 1.9kg milk, dark and white chocolate egg confection decorated with hand-finished ladybirds and cabbage leaves. It is unapologetically extravagant – and, if you happen to be hosting Easter lunch, a rather glorious centrepiece for the table. Buy it.
Betty’s Of Harrogate
Speckled Dark Chocolate Easter Egg, £29.95
Good old Betty’s of Harrogate, which has almost too much goodness to choose from this Easter, from chocolate eggs to seasonal baked good (more on which coming soon). It has an embarrassment of riches on the egg front, but we especially like this Jackson Pollock-reminiscent number, which is a showstopper, and guaranteed to please the grown-ups (and the children with grown-up palates) you may happen to be treating this Easter. Buy it.
Barbers Cocoa
Pink Chocolate Easter Egg, £22
Fancy a dose of pink on your Easter table? This eye-catching egg from Barbers Bean to Bar certainly delivers, and does so arrestingly. The family-run Devon chocolate makers craft everything from bean to bar in small batches, sourcing their cacao directly from farmers and producing it all in-house at their rural workshop. The result is as charming as it is delicious: a raspberry-infused Peruvian-sourced pink chocolate egg that is a cheerful addition to an Easter spread. Guaranteed to stand out among the usual milk-and-dark suspects. Buy it.
Chocolours
Easter Egg With Caramel And Biscoff Filling, £24.95
If you’ve been munching your way towards Easter on a diet of Cadbury’s Biscoff Cream Eggs, this personalised creation is a rather good way to up the ante for the big day. Constructed from silky salted caramel, crushed Biscoff biscuits and smooth, creamy Biscoff paste, it’s indulgence dialled up to eleven. You can also choose the exterior design, adding a painterly, imaginative flourish to your Easter table. Buy it.
Läderach
Easter Egg With Pralines, £37
The Swiss can be relied upon for many things – chief among them keeping time and making excellent chocolate. The latter is beautifully demonstrated by Läderach, the family-run chocolatier whose generations-honed craftsmanship produces some of the finest confections around. This elegant Easter egg takes the form of a chocolate half-shell filled with 13 miniature pralines – each a tiny masterpiece. From the presentation to the first bite, it is pure pleasure. Buy it.
Neuhaus
Ballotoeuf Nutpaste, £73.50
The exquisite Neuhaus began life in Brussels’ Galerie de la Reine in 1857. Since then, the Belgian chocolatier has been honing its craft – as demonstrated beautifully in this Ballotoeuf Nutpaste, which is so arrestingly lovely it’s almost too good to eat. Crack open the delicate shell, however, and you’ll find a rich, silky hazelnut paste within – a decadent centre that makes breaking into it entirely worthwhile. A real showstopper for the Easter table. Buy it.
Venchi
Gran Gourmet Pistachio Egg, £68
Pistachio has been the chocolate pairing story of the past couple of years – and it would be remiss not to overlook its Easter iteration. The Italian chocolatier Venchi began life in Turin in 1878, when a 20-year-old Silviano Venchi spent his entire savings on two bronze cauldrons and began experimenting with chocolate. Nearly 150 years on, the brand remains synonymous with indulgent Italian confectionery. This generously sized pistachio egg leans fully into the trend, combining Venchi’s silky chocolate with its famously rich pistachio filling – both decadent and delicious. Buy it.
Cutter & Squidge
Billionaire Filled Easter Egg, £32.99
Cutter & Squidge’s Billionaire Filled Easter Egg is a perennial favourite, back year after year by popular demand for a reason. A milk chocolate half-egg shell filled with salted caramel layered over shortbread crumbs and whipped chocolate salted caramel ganache, you say? Founded by sisters Annabel and Emily, what they don’t know about the sweet stuff isn’t worth knowing. Buy it.
Fortnum & Mason
The Three Beautiful Easter Eggs, £60
Fortnum’s Easter story for 2026 is hooked onto what it calls its ‘Cotton Tale’ – the adventures of a magical hare ‘as he bounds into a storybook world of sun-dappled meadows where English blossoms bloom, bees hum busily, and butterflies flutter on the soft spring breeze.’ These tableaux have been beautifully brought to life by France-based artist Lou Benesch, who specialises in bringing mythical worlds to life – as seen on the packaging of this trio of gorgeous eggs, which feature flowers from the meadows the hare doubtless hops merrily across. Buy it.
The Chocolate Gift Co
Circus Bunny, £11.99
We’re all for packaging that can be kept and re-used – and if this charming chocolate bunny’s box isn’t crying out to be repurposed as a bed for children’s cuddly companions, we don’t know what is. Buy it.
Pump Street Chocolate
Easter Egg Tasting Box, £6.95
For the artisan chocolate curious, Easter can be a good way to try little tasters of these sweet morsels – and this lovely box of goodies showcases Pump Street Chocolate’s stellar offerings perfectly. Will your favourite be sourdough and sea salt? Madagascan milk chocolate? Grenadan dark? Try them all – then order the full bars for later delectation. Buy it.
