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If you like chocolate and nut butter, Radek’s Chocolate is doing wonderful things with both, and its dairy free Silky Almond Chocolate Rabbit is magically creamy. Looking more like subservient mice than bunnies, NearyNógs’ dark chocolate bunnies, stuffed with salted caramel, were my favourite. A superb, successful marriage of very good Ecuadorian chocolate and caramel: worthy of a royal telegram.
Upmarket bakery Birley has an excellent little bag of various flavoured Little Chocolate Bunnies, some of which look a bit psychedelic.
I’m not a fan of spiced chocolate, but North Chocolates gets it right with its Hot Cross Bunny Bar in dark or milk (my preference: the former). Family visiting? For the black sheep, there’s Mike and Becky’s subversive Box of Mini Sheep – 70% cocoa lambs sprinkled with amaranth seeds.
Zotter has various offerings for Easter. Avoid all the fruit-flavoured ones and head for its Easter Delights: a dark milk bar with hazelnut praline, which requires discipline. It has no blocks or break lines, so there are no boundaries – not for the weak willed.
If you’re lucky enough to be in Paris, head to PLAQ on the Rue du Nil, a delightful little street where the butcher two doors down faces the street to carve, cut, and sell its chick Easter Chocolate Lollipops. Delightfully, snappily, crisp and delicious. While you’re there, sample a water-based hot chocolate and marvel at why you ever needed milk in one.
If you want the joys of Easter to last all year, consider a chocolate subscription: Pump Street; Cocoa Runners; Duffy’s and Solkiki all do good ones (the boulders at Solkiki are insanely good).
