Valentine’s Day seems like ages ago, luckily Easter is just around the corner. It’s time for a chocolate fix! No rustling through the grass for foil wrapped hunks of chocolate and marshmallow. This year it seems chocolate Easter eggs have gone upscale. Beautiful to look at, but even better to eat. Enjoy them while they last.

From Charles Chocolates comes gorgeous milk and dark chocolate eggs decorated with a colorful, modern pattern. They are available in either a two (one milk chocolate and one dark chocolate egg) or four piece box (two milk chocolate and two dark chocolate eggs). A 2 piece box is only $6.00, a 4 piece box is $12.00.

Richart creates what they call “Little Gourmet Egg-Shaped.” The 73% Ivory Coast dark cocoa egg is poised on a milk chocolate tray for $ 22.50. It is also available in white chocolate and in a larger size for $57.50

New from Hotel Chocolat is the Serious Dark Fix Egg. A delight for dark chocolate lovers, it also comes in a milk version. Contained with thick 72% dark chocolate shells are single estate dark chocolates and pralines, $40.00. A simpler version comes in dark or milk chocolate delicately embossed but not filled with chocolates, $20.00

—-Amy Sherman

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