48 The Times Magazine
Paint your own
Easter bunny (£19.99;
meltchocolates.com)
I’m putting all my eggs in
this bunny’s basket. It’s big
enough to share and you
get to decorate the packet.Funny Face Easter egg
(£12.99; cocoaloco.com)
This will make you smile.
A thick milk shell filled
with jumbo-sized buttons
and accessorised with a
white chocolate tache.A Fluffle of Bunnies
nibble bag (£12.95;
rococochocolates.com)
Adorable rabbits made
from smooth milk
chocolate – perfect
for Easter egg hunts.Milk chocolate Easter
bunny (£27.95;
fortnumandmason.com)
A sweet sleepy bunny
nestled in a tiny box of
hay. Too adorable to eat?
Almost.Marbled mother hen
(£20; montezumas.co.uk)
Made from a blend of
dark, milk and white
chocolate, this hen comes
with a family of chicks.Cochon de Pâques
(£30; in store at Maison
François, London SW1)
An Easter pig, anyone? It’s
made from creamy white
chocolate and filled with
hazelnut gianduja.Egg’ceptional
dark chocolate
(£49; eu.marcolini.com)
From a master chocolatier:
an egg lined with almond
and pistachio praline, salty
nuts and puffed rice.Gold chocolate
Easter bunny
(£8.50; chococo.co.uk)
Chocolate snobs will
disagree but I love caramel
chocolate. I challenge you
not to eat it in one go.Sunny Side Sam
(£5; waitrose.com)
Sam is cute, made from
three kinds of chocolate –
white, milk and, er, orange- and only costs a fiver.
M&S Harri the hedgehog
(£5; ocado.com)
Everyone knows M&S
creates fun Easter
characters. New to the
gang? Harri, a sweet milk
chocolate hedgehog.Danny the Dinosaur
(£2.99; aldi.co.uk)
You can’t not love Danny.
Made with melt-in-your-
mouth milk chocolate in
a cute design, all for £3.
Thumbs (or claws) up.Speckled rabbits
(£8.75; bettys.co.uk)
Four mini milk and white
Swiss chocolate bunnies,
nestled on top of a
chocolate blanket.Lindt gold bunny with
hazelnuts (£3; ocado.com)
What would Easter be
without Lindt? A classic
bunny made with Belgian
chocolate and flecks of
crunchy nut. nTHE CUTEST EASTER EGGS
Lou Easter bunny (£21;
shop.uk.laderach.com)
Why does Lou look so
startled? Perhaps because
you’re about to eat her in
one sitting. Delicious, silky
milk chocolate.Eat! TASTE TEST
Eggs with Legs (£80;
harveynichols.com)
The milk chocolate is nice
enough but what you’re
paying for is the pretty
handpainted egg cup by
artist Mary Rose Young.Chocolate treats for children – and grown-ups. By Hannah Evans