The best Easter eggs: tried and tasted
We’ve tasted the top chocolate Easter eggs for 2026. Can anyone beat Cadbury? And are expensive eggs better than cheaper ones? We reveal the best and the worst.
We’ve tasted the top chocolate Easter eggs for 2026. Can anyone beat Cadbury? And are expensive eggs better than cheaper ones? We reveal the best and the worst.
The joy of a well-presented, perfectly crafted Easter egg never gets old. Whether you want tiny chocolate eggs for a hunt in the garden, a showstopper for a loved one or a tasty treat to indulge in yourself, there’s a wide array of eggcellent delights out there.
Our sweet-toothed tasting team sampled this silky-smooth bunch to determine which Easter egg is right for your needs this year – and equally importantly, which ones to avoid.
Does the viral £20 pistachio egg from M&S really taste that much better than a £4.99 offering from Aldi? We crack open the truth.
How we tested
Our panel of 16 testers at Saga HQ discussed packaging, pricing, taste, the quality of the contents of the egg, and the thickness and flavour of the chocolate.
From Waitrose’s Blonde Chocolate Almond Croissant egg to the classic Lindt Bunny, competition was fierce this year. 2025’s victorious egg – the Toblerone Edgy Egg – put in yet another strong performance, coming runner-up but it was the salted caramel egg from luxurious chocolatier Neuhaus that took the top spot this year, despite it being on the pricey side at £25.50.
M&S, Cadbury, Lindt and Aldi also had some great offerings at a variety of prices and there were also vegan options, although those didn’t go down too well with our tasters.
Here are our full results.
RRP: £25.50 / 200g
Yes, it’s expensive but it overwhelmingly won in our taste test, with the majority of our testers declaring it their favourite (without seeing the price tag). It’s hard to give five out of five to such a pricey product but we were impressed with the packaging that it came in and – most importantly – how good it tasted.
It is a hollow egg made from smooth, creamy milk chocolate with salted caramel, caramelised almond and butter biscuit pieces, which helped give it “an excellent crunch” and “moreish flavours”. One taster exclaimed: “It’s like a delicious posh rice Krispie cake!” and it seems a good description.
As well as the price, one other drawback was that the egg was placed in a cardboard carrier, meaning once you got it out of the box, you couldn’t really wrap it up again. But judging by the comments, there soon wouldn’t be much left once it was cracked open! Ideal as a splurge or a present for someone special but it may be wasted on kids, who often want quantity over quality when it comes to Easter eggs.
RRP: £14 / 258g
Like last year, this egg won rave reviews from the Saga team and managed a close second this time. Not only does it look and taste good, but we were very impressed with the foil packaging the egg came it – it was good quality, easy to unwrap and allowed you to wrap the egg back up.
Its packaging was described as “delightfully angular” and “classy”, but it was the taste that really won us over and reviewers now feel this egg has become a staple for Easter. “High quality chocolate and flavour – what you’d expect,” said one, while another wrote, “Very dependable – creamy chocolate and has kept its quality”.
And full marks for the six Toblerone truffles that came inside the egg too – the perfect size for your pocket (and mouth), with the creamy chocolate spreading across your tongue as it melted. A great size for an Easter snack.
RRP: £20 / 416g
With the craze for Dubai chocolate not going away any time soon, stores are still cashing in on pistachio’s popularity and we have to say M&S have done it the best. Not only is this egg visually beautiful – it actually looks like it’s worth more than the £20 price tag – it was described as a “taste sensation”.
Other comments included, “This was spot on, not too creamy or sweet, a good hit of cocoa and the salty nuttiness adds a zing,” and “Very tasty, great presentation and high quality”.
However, others said it was a bit too rich to eat a lot of and wanted more pistachio as they couldn’t really taste it until they got to the cream filling.
RRP: £15 – 368g
When it comes to Easter, you know you can always rely on Cadbury and their new egg this year is a collaboration with biscuit-maker Biscoff. The main large egg has crunchy Biscoff pieces throughout and it comes with eight Dairy Milk Biscoff-filled chunks, so you can get your hit of Biscoff in two different ways.
Understandably it may be a bit too much if you don’t like Biscoff but chances are that if you buy this you’re already a fan and you won’t be disappointed. Our reviewers were impressed with the thick and crunchy egg – “different from a normal Cadbury egg” – and described it as “delicious” and “excellent”.
Some testers found it too sweet and over indulgent, however, and actually preferred the more traditional Cadbury eggs such as the Twirl and Creme Egg offerings. In those cases the eggs were simple Dairy Milk chocolate and each contained either two Twirls or two Creme Eggs.
And as one taster claimed, “It’s not Easter without a Creme Egg and takes me back to my childhood. It’s just a shame they no longer come with the free mug!”
RRP: £15.00 / 275g
An Easter egg disguised as a croissant could go either way but in Saga HQ, it went down pretty well. Described by the retailer as being made from a “luxuriously creamy blonde chocolate with crunchy almond pieces”, crafted in a croissant shape, the “amazing” presentation was incredible and certainly stood out from the others. No doubt it would look lovely on an Easter table.
But what about the taste? Well, it won a lot of praise with comments such as “delicious and different”, “very flavoursome” and “layers of flavour”.
Some found it “too sweet”, though, and one of our reviewers just wasn’t impressed with the concept, saying, “Not Easter like – feels too try hard”.
RRP: £12 / 245g
The Lindt bunny is now an integral part of Easter but do their eggs deserve the same status? Well, you can’t really go wrong with anything Lindt thanks to the high standards of the Swiss chocolate company, but their Nocciolatte egg did split opinion.
While everyone agreed it was good quality, the smart blue packaging and the contents looked great and the six accompanying truffles were “very moreish”, half of our testers felt the hazelnut in the egg was overbearing.
“All I could tase is nut and it took away what you normally get with Lindt, which is the silky smoothness,” said one reviewer.
But others enjoyed it and preferred the hazelnut bits in the egg to the nuts on their own.
RRP: £4.99 / 170g
Aldi never fails to deliver when it comes to affordable and taste-filled treats at Easter and they’ve done it again this year with a whole range of eggs – all at different price points. We tried their luxurious white chocolate, strawberry and granola one, which looked so much more expensive than its £4.99 price tag.
As many chocoholics will know, white chocolate is the sweetest of the lot and if you add in strawberries it becomes even sweeter, so it was something of an acquired taste. But it got a lot of love due to its cost and how good it looked – “this wouldn’t be out of place in somewhere like Hotel Chocolat,” said one Saga tester.
And while some said it was too sweet for them, others raved, describing it as “lovely”, “indulgent”, “pretty” and “fantastic if you like white chocolate”. It’s definitely an upgrade from a plain milk chocolate egg.
RRP: £3.75 / 100g
Perhaps we were expecting more from this because of how good Ferrero Rochers are, but we were left a bit disappointed. There were no Ferrero Rocher chocolates inside this particular egg (though other versions from the company do contain them), just the chocolate egg itself enriched with hazelnut inclusions. To be honest, it didn’t really do the job.
There was also no packaging apart from the foil it was wrapped so it “doesn’t feel main egg worthy” and is perhaps more suited to being the last prize in an Easter egg hunt.
While it tasted “nice”, the overall consensus was that the best bit about a Ferrero Rocher is the hazelnut filling so we felt we were missing out.
RRP: £1.99 / 92g
The USA isn’t exactly known for its great chocolate and despite the growing popularity of Reese’s peanut butter and its treats, this egg failed to win us over. Although very reasonably priced, there are far better eggs out there for the same prize that won’t leave quite such a nasty taste in your mouth.
The egg chocolate was very thin and cheap-tasting and there was only “one tiny” Reese’s peanut butter cup inside, so there didn’t seem much point in getting this. You’d be better off buying the smaller filled eggs to get your PB hit.
RRP: £8.50 / 154g
If you are Coeliac or gluten intolerant many Easter eggs are also suitable for you. Coeliac UK has a comprehensive list.
We always include a vegan/dairy-free option in our taste tests and quite often they come up trumps, but sadly that wasn’t the case with this one. Although a couple of tasters liked the dairy-free alternative, the majority said it tasted synthetic and you could tell it wasn’t “real” chocolate.
At £8.50, it was also quite pricey for what you get – the four chocolate bars included were very small.
It seems a shame this didn’t do well as vegan snack offerings have come a long way, but we wouldn’t recommend this one. There are much better vegan options out there
While the above easter eggs are more luxurious, there are plenty of more economical versions about if you want to pick up bargains for the children in your life.
The small Smarties and Freddo eggs are great value for £1.99, ample enough for kids and both passed the taste test. You can also never go wrong with a Lindt bunny whatever the size and we loved Lindt’s mini pistachio eggs.
These are fantastic for easter egg hunts, as are the Biscoff and caramel-filled eggs (basically variations on the traditional creme egg). Cadbury mini eggs still taste delicious too and we loved the new orange version.
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