We've handpicked a selection of some of London's most luxurious Easter eggs you can pick up in-store or get delivered to your door in time for Easter Sunday.
Il Gattopardo
If you're in search of an Easter egg that will really make a statement, this leopard-skin style egg should definitely do the trick. Inspired by the style and name of the restaurant (gattopardo means leopard) it features two coatings - white chocolate for the first and Valrhona Equatorial 55% dark chocolate for the second coating. Inside, you'll find small eggs filled with velvet hazelnut, almond and pecan praline.
How much? £48 (available to buy at the restaurant).
The Landmark London
The Landmark London hotel has brought back its pop-up Easter cake shop for the season and that features their special eggs, stamped with the Landmark London hallmark. Various types of bespoke eggs are available, including a Mondrian-style painted art egg, with contrasting sides of white and dark chocolate.
How much? From £22
Birley Bakery
This Chelsea bakery features a number of special eggs and chocolate creations for Easter. They range from special figures like their mother hen and her chicks, through to the extravagant Golden Crunch Egg (£85) blended with roasted Piedmontese hazelnuts and an enormous chocolate Easter rabbit (£199).
How much? From £24.95
Cakes & Bubbles
Albert Adrià's patisserie at the Hotel Cafe Royal has this rather lovely looking C&B Easter Egg on offer. It's a 70% chocolate egg filled with hazelnut praline and salted caramel. Better still, one of the eggs sold over Easter will have a golden ticket hidden inside, with a prize for an overnight stay for two at Hotel Café Royal
How much? £43
Buy the Cakes & Bubbles easter egg
Claridge's
As previous recipients of this egg, we can attest to the fact that it's not only beautiful to look at, wrapped in Art Deco monochrome foil referencing the hotel's iconic lobby, but it tastes great too. Pick from milk, dark and white Valrhona chocolate options. Inside you'll find a selection of mini hazelnut and almond praline gull’s eggs.
How much? £65, available online or from the Claridge’s Shop on Brook Street
Dorchester
The new Cake & Flowers shop at The Dorchester has two luxe eggs on offer this Easter. The dulcey popcorn praline Easter egg features a popcorn and sourdough praline and the inside of the egg has a light scattering of crunchy caramel popcorn and sea salt. There's also a hazelnut praline version with crunchy caramel eclats and sea salt inside.
How much? Both retail at £60 and can either be picked up at the shop or ordered online.
Venchi
The Italian chocolate brand has a number of very enticing sounding (and looking) eggs in its Easter collection this year. The one we're most hoping the Easter bunny brings us is this Chocovar Pistacchio egg - made with white chocolate and pistachio paste with an inside coated in crunchy toffee, nibs and chopped pistachios.
How much? £55
Rosewood London
You can always rely on the Rosewood to serve up a beautiful egg and this year's Almond Blossom Easter Egg is inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s Almond Blossom painting. The milk chocolate shell has been painted sky blue and is embellished with chocolate branches, sugar blossom flowers and salted caramel truffles.
How much? It's £55 and can be pre-ordered now for collection from Rosewood London from Monday 18 March.
Buy the Rosewood London Easter egg
Pump Street
Fancy eating Easter eggs for breakfast? Then this is the one for you. This year's new Pump Street Easter offering is a large, hand-poured Easter egg made with molten craft chocolate embedded with the taste and texture of buttery croissants from their bakery. They've actually added ground croissants into the base chocolate and flakes of pastry too.
How much? £34
Buy the Pump Street Easter egg
Daylesford
The most expensive egg on our list comes from organic lifestyle shop Daylesford and this year pays homage to their estate's own beehives. The Hive Showstopper Egg is a milk chocolate hive decorated with life-like handmade bee decorations and is only being produced as a limited edition.
How much? £80 - order online for click and collect
Eataly
Pistachio lovers will very much want this Easter egg from Eataly's own collection. The egg features a hazelnut and cocoa cream filling with chopped pistachio nuts sandwiched in a shell by two thin, crunchy layers of milk chocolate. It's apparently inspired by the chocolatiers of Torino who invented chocolate Easter eggs.
How much? £39
The Connaught
Patisserie chef Nicolas Rouzaud's shop at The Connaught is now taking pre-orders for the Connaughty Easter egg. Made from 70% dark chocolate, the lining is filled with orange and crispy almond praline. It's topped with white chocolate and orange praline decorations and the chocolate base is filled with roasted almond and candied oranges.
How much? £70 - pre-order for delivery between 25 March – 1 April
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