Easter Eggs aren’t just a fun treat for the kids any more. There’s now a selection of delicious new alcoholic eggs that are very much aimed at adults. ALICE SMELLIE tucked in to see which are worth hunting for.
Prestat Marc de Champagne Truffle Easter Egg, £17.50, ocado.com
Best for connoisseurs
Prestat Marc de Champagne Truffle Easter Egg, £17.50, ocado.com
Prestat is an actual chocolate house, and it shows in the luxurious taste of the chocolate, which I savour rather than scoff. Inside the thick chocolate egg are large truffles containing real champagne. Normally I don’t like champagne without the bubbles, but these have a rich velvety texture and a strong taste of quality fizz. 8/10
Famous Names Signature Collection Easter Egg, £7.82, amazon.co.uk
Best for getting in the spirit
Famous Names Signature Collection Easter Egg, £7.82, amazon.co.uk
A Large, dark — 45pc cocoa solids — chocolate egg in a box which makes me think less of Easter and more of Christmas with the grandparents. It’s deliciously rich and comes with eight dark chocolates with real spirit and liqueur centres including Teacher’s Whisky, Irish Cream, Harveys and Courvoisier. I test the Cointreau one and have a tinsel and fairy lights Proustian moment, as this is a drink I consume only at Christmas.
Utterly delicious but beware — the Irish Cream is 6.9 per cent. Eat enough and you’ll find yourself full of Easter spirit. 8/10
The Treat Kitchen Gin and Tonic Egg, £10, moonpig.com
Best for a healthy G&T
The Treat Kitchen Gin and Tonic Egg, £10, moonpig.com
As soon as I open the box to reveal this simple chocolate egg with a pretty green pattern, an overwhelming smell of everyone’s favourite pre-supper tipple rises up to greet me. Impressively, it also contains healthy spirulina. Less impressively, it’s full of gin and tonic flavouring rather than the real deal, although I’ll admit, as a hint in the chocolate, it tastes exactly the same. 6/10
Aldi The Ruby Heist, £12.99
Best to share
Aldi The Ruby Heist, £12.99
This pink, jewel-shaped egg comes with a pyramid of six different truffles, including a Milk Chocolate Kir