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Thinking of shelling out? These are the Easter eggs which our panel of enthusiasts think tasted the best • Food blog: do you prefer a taste of childhood or something more grown-up at Easter? This is a list of all the Easter eggs tasted which scored 3 or more out of a possible 5. Paul A Young salted caramel egg (milk) £19.95, 90g (min) 4.5 out of 5 “Gooey and delicious and almost too good. Best shared with a close friend, and not only because of the price!” “The business” Betty’s milk chocolate & orange Easter egg (milk) 315g, £19.95 4.1 out of 5 “Lovely, slightly orangey but not overpowering. Moreish” “Simple but very tasty. Good, clean hit of orange” La Maison du Chocolat Harold the bunny (milk) 205g, £45 4 out of 5 “An somewhat kitsch take on the Easter egg but all high-quality and very tasty chocolate” “Toothsome!” Cloud Cocoland 3 little eggs (milk) 150g, £8 3.9 out of 5 “A perfect Easter egg – unfussy with the maximum amount of delicious, creamy chocolate” “Best shared – even though it’s small, it is unbelievably rich. But also delicious – the chocolate is sweet and creamy” Marks & Spencer white chocolate and raspberry topped egg (white) 155g, £5.99 3.6 out of 5 “Delicate red raspberry flavour” Rococo dark chocolate foiled Easter egg no.3 (dark) 220g, £21 3.6 out of 5 “Very rich, high quality chocolate with delicious sweets inside” Green & Blacks butterscotch egg (milk) 180g, £6.59 3.5 out of 5 Green & Black’s Maya gold egg (dark) 180g, £6.59 3.5 out of 5 “Quite like the spicing but it’s about the flavours not the chocolate” “Classic, delicious” Montezuma’s chunky dark chocolate egg (dark) £7.99, 150g 3.4 out of 5 “Lovely and bitter although a sugary aftertaste cost it a point” “Lovely! Good snap, really round taste, very complex warm flavour” Hotel Chocolat ostrich egg (dark) 1.3kg, £65 3.3 out of 5 “Lovely generously thick egg with nuts. Great” Betty’s dark chocolate & rose Easter egg (dark) 315g, £19.95 3.2 out of 5 “Perfect amount of rosiness, my favourite. Oo, Betty!” William Curley sea salt caramel Easter egg (dark) 350g, £30 3.1 out of 5 “Like the double layer effect” “Very creamy for dark chocolate – delicious” The Co-operative truly irresistible fairtrade milk chocolate Easter egg with fairtrade chocolate selection (white) 210g, £7 3.1 out of 5 “Promises a rush of vanilla because of the visible pod, but there’s no discernible vanilla flavour” Rawr Organic solid chocolate Easter eggs (dark) 280g, £8.95 3.0 out of 5 “The graininess of raw chocolate can be strange at first but a leap over that hurdle leads to flavours – particularly the mint and orange – that are deep and satisfying” Prestat dark salt caramel truffle Easter egg (dark) 227g, £25 3.0 out of 5 “Salty enough without being too much, chocolate nice and thin and snappy” “Lovely but perhaps a bit salty” Waitrose organic and fairtrade dark chocolate egg (dark) 250g, £14 (reduced to £10) 3.0 out of 5 “Nice but a bit vague” “Smooth but a little underpowered” Artisan du Chocolat mallow bunny Easter egg (milk) 325g, £15 3.0 out of 5 “Delicious, nice texture” Pierre Marcolini bunny egg (“oeuf oreilles”) (dark) 45g, £13.99 3.0 out of 5 Easter Chocolate Food & drink guardian.co.uk

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