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Think about your Easter baskets as a kid. They likely included chocolate eggs and hollow bunnies, an abnormal amount of jellybeans, and so many Peeps. Not super memorable. But what if instead, you opened your basket and found a bunch of chocolate fried eggs that are totally appropriate to eat for Easter brunch? Kollar Chocolates has you covered with a Valrhona white chocolate "egg" and a saffron ganache “yolk." Casual. The weird, so-2017 chocolates don't stop there—we found eight more that will probably make you call your mom and ask for "one last basket," just so you can have exercising chocolate eggs and chubby chocolate chickens in your life.
Chocolatier Jacques Torres makes a Happy Chick ($17) that looks like he ate too many chocolates, and it's what all Easter candy should aspire to be. He should be the chocolate for all holidays!
How many puns can fit in one box of chocolates? An eggstrodinary amount. Dominique Ansel Bakery's Eggs-ercise Chocolate Eggs ($22) are filled with chocolate bonbons and look like little buddies getting their fitness on at Eggquinox. There's a boxer whose motto is "Let’s Get Ready to Scramble," a Yogi who softly says "Namast-egg," and a weightlifter who goes by "Omelift."
Don't gift another drug store chocolate box—get the Vosges' Ensemble Printemps Extraordinaire ($99) which has tassels on the egg-shaped box and shows two bunnies on a picnic on the front. What's inside, you ask? Wandering Bunnies flavored with pistachio and lavender, Enchanted Toadstools flavored with Reishi mushroom powder and hazelnut paste, clementine-ginger toffee, and chocolate eggs (some of which are bacon caramel).
This is the kind of "nesting" you can handle as an adult. L.A. Burdick's Rocher Nest with Eggs ($38) is a dark chocolate and caramelized almond sliver nest filled with an assortment of chocolate-y eggs (some praline, some with raspberry-white chocolate ganache, and others with banana-dark chocolate).
If you love eggs as much as we do, get Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolates' "carton" ($46). The whimsical, caramel-filled eggs are cracked open to show bright yellow yolks, a little chick, and a bigger chocolate egg with a chicken face. It will make you wonder if the chicken, egg, or chicken-egg-chocolate came first.
Compartes' Panorama Easter Egg ($59.95) is much more enticing than a sugared panorama egg. Look at that gold-flecked bunny emerging from it's chocolate egg shell. Was it raised by chickens? We may never know.
Little. Chocolate. Hedgehogs. These little guys from Alma Chocolate ($3.75) are filled with hazelnut praline and dusted with silver because they're fancy hedgehogs. You can pair them off with green chocolate frogs if they need some friends.
Eat Recchiuti Confection's Hopster Bunnies ($21) with a cup of single-origin pour-over coffee. These burnt caramel truffles are adorned with hipster-dressed rabbits who believe in monocles, mustaches, and the finer things in life.
Crack open a chocolate shell from Phillips Chocolate ($14.75) and you might have an urge to make egg salad. The large filled eggs have a sugary filling in the middle that is carefully-colored to look like the inside of a hard-boiled—or maybe a jammy soft-boiled—egg. Oh, and there's chocolate liqueur in there, too. Cadbury Eggs are all grown up.