Looking for delicious organic Easter eggs? Here's our guide of what's on offer from Soil Association licensees...
Booja-Booja
The Booja-Booja Company has announced some new additions to its Easter range... three new small size Easter Eggs complement the award-winning Champagne Truffle Egg. The eggs are handmade and decorated by a community of artists in Kashmir and each one contains three foil-wrapped Booja-Booja truffles of a single flavour: sumptuous Champagne, delectable Hazelnut Crunch or fabulously intense Around Midnight Espresso. Designed and created using traditional methods and local materials the income from making and painting these eggs helps to support families with whom The Booja-Booja Company has direct contact. In addition, 12 Golden Tickets have been hidden inside 12 Large Champagne Truffle Easter Eggs and each one entitles the holder to receive mystery parcels of Booja-Booja organic goodies every two months for a year and enjoy exciting new products before they hit the shelves.
www.boojabooja.com
The Chocolate Alchemist
Fabulous handmade designer Easter eggs.
www.thechocolatealchemist.co.uk
Daylesford Organic
Five delicious, organic chocolate eggs for adults and children. Adults can choose between and egg filled with truffles made from cream from the Daylesford creamery, or filled with pralines. For children Daylesford Organic have perfected a chocolate Easter egg for children filled with chocolate animals.
www.daylesfordorganic.com
Duchy Originals
For true edible ecstasy it would be hard to resist the dark chocolate egg containing Duchy Originals Truffles. This cleverly designed gift box features hidden treasure! Discreetly tucked away is an elegant miniature box within the box, containing a selection of 12 organic milk and dark chocolate truffles. These include such classics as Marc de Champagne, coffee, ginger and cognac centres. Packaged in fresh Duchy cream window boxes they are the height of sophistication and a sure style statement. All eggs feature the stylish Duchy crest imprinted on the front for added flair.
www.duchyoriginals.com
Green & Black's
Green & Black's, the luxury organic chocolate maker, has a stunning new look Easter collection for 2007. The beautifully designed packaging celebrates the excitement of Easter, the fresh colours of spring and the organic, natural qualities of Green & Black's chocolate. New this year are a range of Green & Black's Mini Eggs. Made with their signature cocoa-rich milk chocolate – Crisp Crunchy Milk Mini Eggs contain crispy cereal pieces and crunchy butterscotch, whilst the Smooth Praline Dark Chocolate Mini Eggs are intense and bittersweet with a luxuriously smooth praline centre. Why not impress a loved one on Easter Sunday with the Milk Egg with Mini Eggs or maybe the Dark 70% Egg with Praline Mini Eggs? These large, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs are accompanied by six Mini Eggs, so you just have to choose decadent dark or rich and smooth milk. The Green & Black's Easter collection is available in all major supermarkets, as well as Fresh & Wild, Selfridges and other high end department stores.
www.greenandblacks.com
Spot, the egg @ Riverford
The Chocolate Alchemist have made a spotty, dotty design on their handmade eggs, especially for Riverford customers. You can treat yourself to a 300g handmade plain or milk chocolate egg for £12.50 and the Riverford Easter bunny will deliver along with your brimming spring vegetable box. To order, go online or call the farm on 0845 600 2311.
www.riverford.co.uk
Stamp Collection
The Stamp Collection Bunny is made with organically certified, fairly traded dark chocolate, and is dairy-free and sucrose-free. The Bunny makes a delicious treat for all lovers of fine chocolate, as well as people who have to avoid dairy and refined sugars.
www.stamp-collection.co.uk
Easter cakes
High Orchard Organic
Traditional organic Simnel cake - a very beautiful artisan Easter cake. A layer of home made marzipan is baked inside this delicious organic fruit cake, which is topped with more marzipan and decorated in the traditional way with 11 marzipan balls (discs on the 4" version), and hand crystallised spring flowers. According to Pliny, primrose leaves and flowers are a panacea for muscular rheumatism, paralysis and gout! Who could resist?
High Orchard Organic, Waunlluest, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, SA32 7DB
Tel: 01558 668053 9am - 9pm for mail order details