Daily Mail journalists carefully select and curate the products featured on our site. When purchases are made through links on this page, we earn commission. This year's Easter eggs have undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving far beyond simple hollow shells. Modern creations now boast sophisticated fillings like pistachio cream, tiramisu layers, and even surprising additions like crisps.
The Ultimate Easter Egg Taste Test
Naturally, our YOU team saw this innovation as a perfect opportunity for investigation. Armed with spoons and minimal restraint, we rigorously tested ten of this season's most discussed Easter eggs. Our selection ranged from intriguing supermarket offerings to extravagant luxury centrepieces. The results revealed a fascinating mix of genuine delights, sugar overloads, and occasional existential questions about what truly qualifies as an egg in the modern confectionery landscape.
1. Cutter & Squidge Tiramisu Easter Egg
What's the crack? Transforming tiramisu into egg form represents a stroke of genius. Upon cracking it open, you discover layers of coffee-soaked biscuits, caramel, and white chocolate ganache. The creation is beautifully topped with white chocolate eggs, a dusting of cocoa powder, and delicate chocolate shavings.
Taste experience: This egg tempts you with just a small piece, then disappears with alarming speed as willpower evaporates.
Additional comments: This is an egg designed for spoon consumption, leading to gloriously sticky and messy enjoyment.
Our rating: 5/5 (We're stocking up in case they disappear next year)
2. Fortnum & Mason La Dolce Pistachio & White Chocolate Easter Egg
What's the crack? Pistachio enthusiasts will rejoice at this pale green white chocolate egg, whose interior walls are completely encrusted with real shelled pistachios.
Taste experience: Exceptionally good. The creamy exterior combines perfectly with the tangy crunch of hidden nuts for a sensational experience. Saving some for later proves nearly impossible.
Additional comments: A perfect balance of salty and sweet uniqueness, though the nearly £40 price tag is eye-wateringly steep.
Our rating: 4.5/5 (Would be 5 if purchasing didn't feel like remortgaging)
3. Fortnum & Mason La Dolce Hazelnut Easter Egg
What's the crack? From the outside, this appears as a standard creamy blonde Easter egg. However, parting the shell reveals handfuls of whole roasted Piedmont hazelnuts that nearly obscure the chocolate.
Taste experience: Intensely sweet (which we loved) though potentially overwhelming for some. With nuts comprising 21% of the total, it delivers extreme crunchiness.
Additional comments: Confession: its decadent moreishness led to consuming the entire egg in one sitting, followed by inevitable regret.
Our rating: 4/5 (Flawless mathematics: eaten in 10 minutes makes cost per mouthful quite steep)
4. Hotel Chocolat Ostrich Egg
What's the crack? Calling this an Easter egg feels inadequate—it's a full-scale chocolate event with a thick shell and enormous presence requiring tackling rather than cracking.
Taste experience: Silky, rich, properly posh chocolate that justifies its existence if not entirely its premium price. Every bite acknowledges a serious financial decision.
Additional comments: Ownership brings feelings of power, while consumption brings halfway sickness—both integral to the experience.
Our rating: 4/5 (Points deducted for requiring emotional and financial recovery time)
5. Selfridges The Great Pistachio Egg
What's the crack? A thick chocolate shell absolutely rammed with pistachio filling creates less of a hollow egg and more of a green-hued treasure chest with questionable structural integrity once attacked.
Taste experience: Deeply nutty, creamy, and indulgent without tipping into full sugar overload. A pistachio lover's dream and everyone else's gateway conversion.
Additional comments: One of those eggs where "just a bit more" thinking leads to sudden disappearance, leaving only foil and regret.
Our rating: 4.5/5 (Loses half a point for zero self-control safeguards)
6. Terry's Chocolate Orange Marble Egg
What's the crack? A jazzed-up version of the classic, featuring swirled, marbled design attempting grown-up appearance while remaining firmly in fun territory.
Taste experience: That unmistakable chocolate-orange combination performs exactly as expected: comforting, zingy, and impossible to dislike.
Additional comments: Clean break attempts inevitably fail, chaos ensues, but consumption proceeds regardless.
Our rating: 4/5 (Dependable, nostalgic, and pleasantly unsurprising)
7. Lindt Popcorn Egg
What's the crack? Exactly as described: Lindt milk chocolate with caramelised popcorn pieces throughout—perfect for those who enjoy all three elements.
Taste experience: While not a sweet-savoury mash-up (the popcorn is caramelised rather than salted), it delivers a toasty, cinema-like flavour that prevents excessive sweetness.
Additional comments: The properly thick chocolate shell could serve as paperweight, weapon, or bowling ball if the taste disappoints.
Our rating: 3/5 (Nice but quickly becomes enough)
8. Waitrose No.1 Ruby Chocolate & Berries Flat Egg
What's the crack? Boldly calling itself an egg despite being essentially a chocolate frisbee that lies flat, refusing traditional cracking participation.
Taste experience: Very sweet, very fruity, very pink. Ruby chocolate combined with sharp raspberry and cherry bursts almost balances things, though sugar commitment is essential.
Additional comments: A tiny egg on the front offers crack consolation, containing two pink Champagne truffles attempting to justify the entire creation.
Our rating: 3/5 (Points for originality, deducted for complete lack of crack satisfaction)
9. Waitrose No.1 The Blonde Chocolate Almond Croissant
What's the crack? A hollow chocolate shell shaped like a French pastry without actual pastry involvement—a creation so unappealing it remained uneaten for days in our test kitchen.
Taste experience: Despite appearing milk chocolate, it's white chocolate mixed with caramelised sugar, creating sickly sweetness to our palate.
Additional comments: Roasted almonds provide saving grace with crunch and class.
Our rating: 2/5
10. Torres The Crisp Egg
What's the crack? A disappointingly small milk chocolate egg with smashed Torres salted crisps sprinkled throughout—sadly not filled with crisps as hoped.
Taste experience: Disappointing. The chocolate lacked sufficient sweetness while the crisps lacked sufficient saltiness, creating a limp, sad combination.
Additional comments: Too small with soggy-tasting crisps. Our suggestion: buy a normal Dairy Milk Easter egg and fill it with Torres black truffle crisps instead.
Our rating: 2/5
Final Verdict
This year's Easter egg landscape offers remarkable variety, from exquisite luxury creations to disappointing experiments. While some eggs justify their premium prices with exceptional taste and innovation, others remind us that traditional forms sometimes work best. Whether you seek sophisticated indulgence or nostalgic comfort, our comprehensive taste test reveals the eggs truly worth your attention this Easter season.
