Forget choosing between milk, dark or white; this year’s hot trend is savoury Easter eggs.
But while sweet-and-salty can make for a successful flavour combination, do you really want to tuck into cheese, pork or even caviar over your usual hunk of chocolate? SARAH RAINEY puts them to the test.
CREAMY WHITE CHOCOLATE CAVIAR
King’s Oscietra Caviar, £16.70 for 10g, kingsfinefood.co.uk
Blacksticks Easter W’egg’dge, £4, butlerscheeses.co.uk
Pairing earthy-flavoured caviar with a white chocolate egg (bought separately) is said to enhance the creaminess of the chocolate.
I’m sceptical as seafood isn’t my favourite, but it’s delicious — even with my cheap-as-chips Milky Bar egg: the salty, tangy bubbles of caviar add flavour and texture, making the chocolate seem moreishly smoother. 5/5
SALTY MISO DARK CHOCOLATE
Cox & Co Cacao Miso Caramel Dark Chocolate Egg, £7.20, waitrose.com
This 47 per cent Colombian cacao egg is flavoured with natural caramel for sweetness and white miso powder, the Japanese soybean paste.
Sadly, the dark chocolate is thin and too bitter to counteract the savoury miso, so the whole thing tastes more like a health food than a treat. 2/5
THE ULTIMATE ‘CHEES-TER’ TREAT
Blacksticks Easter W’egg’dge, £4, butlerscheeses.co.uk
There’s something wonderfully indulgent about tucking into this wedge of creamy Blacksticks blue cheese, packaged to look like an Easter egg.
Eggstra Porky Easter Gift, from £19.95, snafflingpig.co.uk
The flavour is tart and buttery at the same time. I recommend pairing with a slab of intense dark chocolate. 4/5
DELICIOUS PORK PICK-ME-UP
Eggstra Porky Easter Gift, from £19.95, snafflingpig.co.uk
A perfect choice for snack lovers, there’s no chocolate here, only seven 40g packs of pork scratchings, in flavours including mustard and BBQ.
The maple syrup flavour reminds me of honey roast ham, and I’d happily choose this over a classic chocolate egg. 5/5
