Choosing the perfect Easter egg is not easy. There are hundreds on the shelves and prices range from cheaper than a box of fresh hens’ eggs to almost as much as a Faberge egg.

To help you, we have munched through an unhealthy amount of luxury offerings to bring you some top tips…

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Waitrose Seriously Chocolatey Egg (370g), £12.99

Everything about this egg says serious, including its name. The shape may be novelty but everything else about this egg is grown-up and, well, serious. Gold lustred, it has a sophisticated ‘wow’ factor but a bitterness that’ll leave you scratching your head and wonder whether this really is milk chocolate. It divided opinion in our office but if you are a chocolate connoisseur (a chocoisseur?) then you will appreciate the egg’s undoubted quality and that of its four mini bar accompaniments.

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Lidl Deluxe Fudge Feast Easter Egg (200g) and Lidl Deluxe Eton Mess Easter Egg (200g), both £2.99

It does not look quite as special as the more premium priced eggs but Lidl’s offering is certainly very good looking and the flavour is hard to beat, at any price. Smooth, creamy chocolate and added flavour on the front. We preferred the Eton mess with gloriously sweet meringue and zingy dried raspberry pieces.

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M&S Single Origin Cocoa Pod (265g), £12

Shaped like a cocoa bean and glistening in multi metallic colours, this is a real stunner. The thick, dark single origin chocolate is earthy and poignantly bitter with an impressive snap. It’s the sort of egg you’ll want to eat slowly in several sittings because it’s just too much for a scoffing session (and frankly not quite exciting enough). The little tasters are perhaps to thin and insubstantial to be too much fun.

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William Curley – The Speckled Easter Egg, £20

Speckled in orange, this egg looks as posh as you would expect from four-times Britain’s Best Chocolatier who once created a chocolate window display at Harrods for the Diamond Jubilee. Thin and with great snap, the chocolate is perfectly balanced and moreish. Then inside is an extra-special treat: thin chocolate orange treats. They look like matchmakers but they’re filled with jelly-like orange and taste like luxury jaffacakes minus the biscuit.

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Sainsbury’s Belgian Dark Chocolate Easter Egg with Cocoa Nibs (220g), £6

Opening this egg genuinely brings a smile to your face. It’s colourful splashes across a dark glossy surface delightful and the subsequent aroma is rousing. There’s no frills with this egg – no little tasters or additional bars, but the chocolate melts on the tongue and is smooth enough to just eat and eat and eat. Embedded cocoa nibs give it an extra lift that really single it out as something special.

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Aldi Moser Roth Dark Fudge Brownie egg (195g) and Banoffee Pie Milk Chocolate Egg (195g), £2.99

While these tick the same boxes as some of the other luxury eggs, they don’t quite do it in the same style. The chocolate squiggles on the front are a bit blurry and the fudge brownie or banoffee filling is undeniably tasty but not in the same league as its competitors. But still, the egg’s chocolate is well balances in both milk and dark varieties, and you can hardly argue for £2.99 (unless you also have a Lidl nearby)

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Cocoba Hand Finished Limited Edition Milk Chocolate Easter Egg (150g), £7.95

A colleague of mine told me he couldn’t shake Lionel Ritchie’s Hello from his head and was blaming this egg, apparently because it is so mellow. Yes this creamy treat does look like it would be the perfect fit for the kind of person that listens to Magic FM – and that is a good thing. With white chocolate appearing to melt over the milk egg and little green baubles, it looks as sweet as it tastes.

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