Our Favourite Chocolate Easter Bunnies, Eggs, and Extra

I grew up in a Jewish family, the place menorahs and Shabbat candles took the place of Christmas timber and Easter bunnies, which meant I wasn’t quite a lot of assist when our group began planning out Easter content material. However though I don’t know the very first thing about Easter, I do learn about sweet. Seeking out the easiest Easter candies—bunnies and non-bunnies alike—was a job I may deal with.

As we blind-taste-tested greater than 20 milk- and dark-chocolate bunnies (and some eggs), we agreed that almost all chocolate Easter bunnies are designed with cuteness in thoughts, whereas taste and texture appear to be of minimal significance. That mentioned, we landed on a handful of dark- and milk-chocolate bunnies which might be simply as scrumptious as they’re enticing. (And, since I ended up with a ton of leftover chocolate bunnies to eat, I used to be impressed to make my very first Easter dinner to associate with my new candy-bunny pals—for which I’ll be counting on a stable menu to information me.)

The Finest Milk-Chocolate Easter Bunnies

Testing milk-chocolate Easter bunnies proved to be an exhausting job—we did it as a result of we love you. Nearly each bunny was cloyingly candy, with little or no steadiness or chocolate taste. We have been on the lookout for a milk chocolate that was good and creamy, with a definite cocoa-butter taste, and some bunnies jumped (hopped?) out at us.

Our high milk-chocolate bunny, made by Harbor Sweets, options items of caramel, pecans, almonds, and butter-crunch toffee, enrobed in velvety chocolate. Though we have been testing for taste, it doesn’t damage that this bunny is a little more attention-grabbing to take a look at, because it’s made with a unique mould than the one utilized by most of its rivals.

We additionally loved the milk-chocolate bunnies from Li-Lac and Jacques Torres. Each have been properly adorned and struck a steadiness between sweetness and cocoa-butter taste. When you’re going for a extra basic bunny, one which doesn’t have a textured filling, these are the bunnies for you.

The Finest Darkish-Chocolate Easter Bunnies

After consuming my approach by way of a mountain of milk-chocolate bunnies, I used to be relieved to dig into a pair dark-chocolate ones that had good deep taste and good texture—although we discovered that even the dark-chocolate bunnies tended to be fairly gentle, missing the extraordinary dark-chocolate taste we have been on the lookout for. Our favorites have been barely bitter, with a definite chocolatiness.

Our workplace appears to have a factor for nut- and toffee-filled candies, which can be why the dark-chocolate Harbor Sweets bunny led the pack on this portion of the testing, too. We have been completely happy to chunk by way of well-balanced darkish chocolate and meet the identical fillings we loved in Harbor’s milk-chocolate bunny. A slight saltiness within the toffee filling was a pleasant contact.

On this class, we additionally favored Jacques Torres’s bunnies, whose high-quality darkish chocolate had me going again to our snack desk three days after the tasting to interrupt off one other ear (sorry, bunny). The Jacques Torres bunnies are available in quite a lot of sizes, making them good for snacking or utilizing as showstopping vacation decorations.

Our Favourite Chocolate Eggs (and Extra)

When you’ve completed off all of your chocolate bunnies and are nonetheless craving extra sweets, we acquired you. Throughout our bunny tasting, we got here throughout a couple of different candies we cherished. Of all of the very fancy, elaborately painted Easter eggs we sampled, our favourite was the egg selection pack by Veruca, a mix of small, fantastically adorned milk- and dark-chocolate eggs housed in a slim plastic tube.

For these of us keen to stray just a little farther from conventional Easter-candy kinds—or these, like me, who don’t actually know what Easter traditions are—this small picket present field, by L.A. Burdick, makes the proper Easter present. Wrapped with a dainty bow, the field comprises an assortment of fancy, ganache-filled dark-, milk-, and white-chocolate bunnies, varied chocolate truffles, and sugar-dusted marzipan eggs. Admittedly, this present field didn’t make it into our official taste-test outcomes, as a result of…I’d already completed off a lot of the sweets in it by the day of testing. Whoops.