Alexandra Jones, acting associate editor

Shop Hotel Chocolat extra-thick Easter egg – everything, £34.95

This egg is truly the bee’s knees. The chocolate egg is thick with deliciously crunchy chunks of honeycomb spread evenly throughout, so you get a bit of honeycomb in each bite. I love that this egg comes with a pack of sunflower seeds, which I can’t wait to plant in my garden. It would make a perfect gift. Plus, Montezuma’s will donate 25p from every egg sold to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help protect our pollinators. It tastes good and does good.

Sarah Best, senior product manager

Shop Montezuma’s bee’s knees honeycomb milk chocolate egg, £15

Eggs are all well and good, but who wouldn’t want to receive a matcha bunny instead? Luigi comes nestled in a bed of hay (well, kind of) and is almost too delicate and beautiful to eat. The chocolate itself is subtle; matcha can be overpowering, but this is just right. It’s creamy, slightly earthy and super-moreish, and as a health journalist, I loved the fact that it’s made with just four ingredients: unrefined sugar, cashew nuts, cocoa butter and matcha. Every Luigi bought helps the brand to continue supporting cocoa-growing communities across the globe by paying them higher than Fairtrade prices. A delicious, consciously made, non-ultra-processed chocolate bunny? I’ll be ordering again next spring. 

Miranda Larbi, editor Strong Women

Shop Luisa’s limited edition matcha Luigi bunny, £11.50

The Rolls-Royce of Easter eggs. This extra-thick dark chocolate number is not only beautiful to look at, but the flavours are perfectly balanced, making it the ideal evening snack. Smashing the egg open felt like breaking a piece of art, but when you first taste a shard of glossy dark chocolate with the inner layer of truffle, the artist’s intention is clear: to mix the sharp twang of cocoa with the sweetness of truffle. M&S throws in a few chunks of honeycomb and a sprinkle of salt to perfect the recipe, and by the end, I was suddenly a dark chocolate Easter convert.

Felicity Thistlethwaite, digital content director 

Shop Marks & Spencer collection extra thick dark chocolate and blond egg, £20

Because one Easter egg is never enough, this delicious milk chocolate egg from Chococo combines a big egg with blonde chocolate eggs (they taste like caramel) stuck onto the inside for a tasty surprise. The milk chocolate is less on the creamy side than your classic Dairy Milk, but has a lot to offer in terms of flavour, and it’s sustainable, ethical credentials make it a stand-out pick.

Lauren Geall, senior writer, Strong Women

Shop Chococo milk chocolate nest egg, £16.50

This egg is so beautiful, I actually didn’t want to eat it. Every floral petal and leaf is hand-painted in royal icing, and it’s a true work of art. The shiny milk chocolate is Swiss and gives good ‘snap’ when I start to devour it – it’s hard not to eat the whole thing in one session, to be honest.

It’s pricey, yes. It will look amazing on the easter table when friends come over, and it tastes even better than it looks.

Alix Walker, editor

Shop Bettys spring flowers milk chocolate egg, £42.25

This is an impressively weighty egg, stuffed with hazelnuts, hazelnut praline, crunchy wafer and chunks of salted caramel, then double dipped in both dark and milk chocolate. Each bite is slightly different: one minute I’m thinking posh Ferrero Rocher, the next there’s a delightful Toffee Crisp vibe. On paper, it has the potential to be too sweet, but the dark chocolate element balances the sweeter praline, and the salted caramel adds a very slight savouriness. It’s incredibly moreish. Each egg is handmade by chocolatier Gabriella Cugno, who made all the chocolates for the recent Wonka film (if it’s good enough for Timothée Chalamet, am I right?), and comes in a chic Hermès-hued orange box. We debated at length whether any Easter egg was worth more than £50 and decided that this one really was. A true treat, every bite left you wanting just a tiny chunk more. Top tip: it’s best eaten very slightly warm (just leave it on a sunny windowsill for five minutes)  – all the elements begin to melt together. Heaven!

Alexandra Jones, acting associate editor 

Shop Gabriella Cugno hazelnut praline egg, £53

Sarah Best, senior product manager

Shop Cadbury dairy milk & white chocolate half & half ultimate Easter egg, £15

Tom Gormer, deputy editor

Shop Farm Shop blonde egg, £12

In a beautiful painterly box, Fortnum & Mason’s winning Easter egg this year is nicknamed the ‘affogato’ egg. And if you’re a fan of the classic Italian espresso-and-ice-cream dessert, you will love this. It comes in two halves: a thick dark chocolate shell with a decent hit of coffee that is smooth and not in the slightest bit bitter, and a creamy white chocolate with a subtle hint of vanilla. Each half is individually wrapped, so there’s no risk of pulling a muscle trying to prise it open. Start with a chunk of vanilla and finish on the coffee for the perfect flavour balance. Although I’d happily eat a whole coffee egg. Delicious.

Jenny Tregoning, group production director

Shop Fortnum & Mason dark & white chocolate coffee & vanilla Easter egg, £35

Who am I to look down on what is possibly the most fun-looking Easter egg I’ve ever seen? Yet, what I’m about to say might change your mind on this loaded egg. Yes, it’s trendy this year to load up half an Easter egg with delicious goodies. And yes, this M&S version is packed full of the best stuff: chocolate-coated popcorn, little cubes of jelly, hell… they even threw in M&S’s sugar-coated small speckled eggs. But what this egg gains in volume of ‘stuff’, it loses in Easter appeal. Call me old school, but can you still call it an Easter egg if you can’t smash it on your head to break the shell? Delicious taste, and all the pieces are glorious individually, but it was too much for me to handle all at once. 

Felicity Thistlethwaite, digital content director 

Shop Marks & Spencer scrummy bunny munch loaded egg, £12

I’ve not been this excited to tuck into an Easter egg since I was about 11. It looks beautiful before you’ve even glimpsed the chocolate inside, arriving in an art deco-style monochrome foil and presented in a sturdy jade box. The egg, embossed with the Claridge’s crest, is surprisingly difficult to crack into – in a reassuringly expensive kind of way – but once you’re in, it’s an indulgent delight. Hand-crafted from Valrhona chocolate, the egg is rich and smooth, but never cloying. Inside, you’ll find a handful of what look like quail eggs, but are filled with intense, dark chocolate and a lovely salted-caramel ooze. This would be wasted on kids, obviously, but if you’re trying to impress someone who really loves Easter, this would be how to do it.

Steven Cowan, digital chief sub-editor

Shop Claridge’s milk chocolate egg, £85

Vegan chocolate eggs can be disappointing; either the chocolate’s too dark or it’s not flavoursome enough, and you rarely get fun extras like bags of sweets like you do in a standard dairy egg. But this Cutter & Squidge offering is something else. It’s technically half an egg, and at first that feels like a bit of a let down, but the half you do have is so heavy with creamy chocolate ganache, cookie bites and gold-dusted truffle eggs, there’s no way you’d be able to eat any more of it. This egg is more pudding than snack; I ate mine with a spoon over several days, and that’s how I recommend you eat yours. Cruelty-free hedonism in an egg. 

Miranda Larbi, editor Strong Women

Shop Cutter & Squidge vegan egg, £31.99

If you don’t really want an Easter egg but still absolutely want an Easter egg, this is for you. Instead of a chocolate shell, it’s a painted, wooden, velvet-lined egg shape that splits in two and is filled with a packet of excellent vegan truffles. The painted egg is pretty enough to reuse as a little trinket box, and the truffles are genuinely delicious – rich and chocolately, with slightly crispy pieces of caramel throughout that are just salty enough to cut through the cocoa. If you don’t do dairy (or, like me, you do, but are just very into dark chocolate), it’s ideal – plus, you’ll be left with a hand-painted keepsake rather than a mountain of recycling once you’ve finished.

Holly Bullock, features writer

Shop Booja Booja chocolate salted caramel large Easter egg, £29.99