9 Easter Treats You are Missing Out On
Unless you are lucky enough to live in Australia or New Zealand
Happy Easter! For the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing lists of the most beautiful Easter eggs in the world and they all seem to be in France, made by French chocolatiers. As beautiful as they are, I think all of these lists of best Easter this and that would pale if you saw what was happening over here in this little corner of the world! Yes, I’m biased as….
So, here is a list of the 9 Easter treats I either bought, or wish I’d bought, or tried to buy but they wouldn’t ship because it was too hot in Perth.
1
When Sue Lewis Chocolatier starts selling her Bunny Pots in Perth, Western Australia, I know it’s Easter again. Each pot is filled with mini eggs and mini bunnies and they are available in a mix white/dulcey/milk/raspberry or dark/yuzu/raspberry/passionfruit. All her chocolates are made using Valrhona chocolate.
2
Mork’s Golden Emu Egg is but one of Mork’s products that make them the clear winner in the Australian Easter chocolate takeover. Made with caramelised chocolate, smoked sea salt and a dash of 23K gold. Inside is macademia cream, Tasmanian honey ganache, pepper berry, lemon myrtle and a crunch of whole honey-roasted macadamia to finish.
3
It should be a crime to sell hot cross buns at any other time of the year except for Easter. What is great about these delicious little buns, best enjoyed cut open, toasted and then slathered with butter and a sprinkle of salt, is that they are only available for a short amount of time. There are so many incredible hot cross buns across Australia, but my go to are these chocolate ones from Wild Bakery in Fremantle, Western Australia
4
If you need the hot cross bun in chocolate bar form, Hunted + Gathered in Melbourne, Victoria has a Hot Cross Bun bar made with spices, candied orange, roasted almond and dried fruit folded through 60% Dominican Republic chocolate. If you want to go really crazy, take a hot cross bun, toast it and place some of this chocolate on top, wait for it to melt ever so slightly, and enjoy a double chocolate hot cross bun. You are very welcome.
5
Steven ter Horst Chocolatier in Adelaide, South Australia’s winning combination of Ardbeg whiskey ganache and salted caramel in a chocolate Easter egg using Valrhona chocolate is out of this world. Move over kids, Easter is for the adults.
6
I feel like these bite sized, 100% dark chocolate eggs made from cocoa from Anamalai estate in South India are the perfect size, like a daily vitamin for good health. I hope that Foundry Chocolate in Silverdale, New Zealand will considering keeping them in stock all year around.
7
In France, they have competitions to identify the best marshmallow filled chocolate teddy bear. This is serious stuff. But Ratio Cocoa Roasters’ raspberry marshmallow filled chocolate bunny made from their own blend of chocolate made in house (from the bean, of course), would give the French teddy bears a run for their money.
8
You need to be fast to get one of Messina’s limited edition Gelato Easter Eggs, like buying Taylor Swift tickets online as soon as ticket sales start fast. The dark chocolate shell is filled with layers of chocolate cheesecake gelato, baked cheesecake chunks, chocolate cream cheese with chocolate crumb mousse, salted caramel chocolate cookie mousse, and a salted caramel centre. They are pretty big, but you don’t need to share if you don’t want.
9
If you really want to share your Easter treats, then pick up Baron Hasselhoff’s Legend of the Double Yolker Easter Egg. Apparently, according to the Baron (and the company’s website), he discovered, deep in the Black Forest (in New Zealand?), a breed of bunny that lays double yolk Easter Eggs. This inspired this chocolate version made with their own bean to bar chocolate and filled with marshmallow, one raspberry and pomegranate and the other with spiced hazelnut praline. One for me and one for you. Or two for me.
Happy Easter!
Giselle
Chief Chocolate Sipper