Anticipated all year round, Easter is the pinnacle holiday for chocolate lovers as shop shelves are piled high with all types of Easter eggs. Supermarkets get in on the frenzy with their own-brand luxury offerings, with all types of flavour combinations your heart could desire.
You'll pay a premium for these high-end chocolates, so to help shoppers' budgets and taste buds, we took on the noble task of trying 18 Easter eggs from Waitrose, Tesco, Co-Op, Asda, Morrisons Sainsbury's and even a few artisan producers. With an empty stomach and help from office mates, here's our honest breakdown of the luxury Easter eggs you can buy in 2025. Prices ranged from £7 to £22.50 and even though we were up to our eyes in chocolate, two were so good we didn't want to share.
Waitrose The Cracking Pistachio Easter Egg, £17 -
As delicious as it is beautiful, this social media famous concoction lives up to the hype and then some.
The white chocolate shell has a toffee flavour that's not too sweet, with little bursts of salt. The inner pistachio egg has a subtle pistachio flavour studded with pistachio nibs for a nice crunch.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Waitrose No.1 The Chocolate Croissant Easter Egg, £15 -This stunning chocolate croissant gets perfect marks for presentation. The chocolate here is lacking something, but its crunchy chocolate crumbs add an enjoyable nibbly dimension.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Waitrose No.1 Milk Chocolate Flat Easter Egg, £12 -
This uniquely shaped egg comes in satisfying packaging that has the flat egg slide out smoothly. Crunchy cocoa nibs, crispy caramelised wafers adorn the milk chocolate that tastes dark. Texturally, this is similar to an American Crunch bar. There's a salty element that saves it from being saccharine.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
No.1 Blonde Chocolate & Biscuit Flat Easter Egg 178g, £12 -Like a bougie Caramac bar, and tooth-achingly sweet. You can smell it as soon as you take it out of the packaging.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Waitrose Dark Chocolate & Nut Flat Florentine Easter Egg 204g, £12 -A solid classy dark chocolate egg perhaps ideal for those who aren't crazy for sweets, but we did note a weird aftertaste.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Tesco Finest Dark Chocolate & Orange Hollow Egg 228g, £12 (£6 Clubcard) -
Better than Terry's, and maybe better than most chocolates, as we didn't know chocolate could be this flavourful - or fragrant.
A strong orange scent greets you immediately, melded perfectly with a dark chocolate that's not too sweet or too bitter. Sublime.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Co-op Irresistible Marbled Millionaires Chocolate Egg 200g, £7 -Whilst the two of us found this sickly sweet, it was one taster in the office's favourite.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Exceptional by ASDA Hazelnut & Blonde Chocolate Egg 200g, £9.98 -
A Caramac-like flavour here as well, but not as good as Waitrose's blonde flat egg. Nothing special unfortunately and lacking hazelnut.
A note for all Asda eggs - after cracking open so many eggs, we found Asda's plastic-free packaging nice and easy to open.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Exceptional by ASDA Caramel, Pretzel & Honeycomb Milk Chocolate Egg 300g, £9.98 -A lot going on here but it all works together. The egg looks nice and the chocolate shell is thick and generous with fillings. The pretzel stops it from being too sweet.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Exceptional by ASDA Orange & Ginger Dark Chocolate Egg 200g, £9.98 -This orange chocolate egg can't top Tesco's though it's perfectly nice. The orange flavour here is more subtle and there's just a hint of ginger.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Morrisons The Best Belgian Dark Chocolate & Pink Salt Easter Egg 240g, £7.50 -
Cloying and too salty - Ketsuda said it felt like it left salt deposits in her molars.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Morrisons The Best Milk & Blonde Chocolate With Honeycomb Easter Egg 240g, £7.50 -This Easter egg tastes like Jazzies, and although it promises caramel, pretzel and honeycomb, there's not much going on.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Sainsbury's Belgian Milk Chocolate Tiramisu XL Easter Egg, Taste the Difference 230g
, £10
A tiramisu flavour egg is a brilliant idea. The egg has a velvety texture and subtle coffee taste, with the tiramisu flavours coming through more as an aftertaste.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Sainsbury's Free From Extra Thick Rocky Road Easter Egg, Taste the Difference 250g, £8.50 -This one reminded Nicola of her vegan days - and "not in a good way". An unpleasant mouthfeel and a strange taste.
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
Sainsbury's Belgian Dark Chocolate XL Easter Egg with Sea Salt, Taste the Difference 230g, £10 (£8 with Nectar) -A nice salty kick as the chocolate finishes melting in your mouth keeps it interesting and neither too sweet nor bitter. One good egg.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Aldi's Specially Selected Dark Ripple Egg with Rich Coffee, 170g (£4.99 - buy in store)
This one had a delcious rich coffee taste, with coffee nibs in the shell. However, Sophie thought it was on the smaller side. For a luxury egg, you'd expect a little more.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Salcombe Dairy's Organic White Chocolate Easter Egg With Blond Chocolate Easter Animal And Blond Buttons (£22.50 - buy on )Beautifully presented, with thick white chocolate and deliciously sweet blond chocolate buttons - if that's your thing. At £22.50, this one is pretty expensive - and in Sophie's opinion, no chocolate egg should be that pricey.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
