By . Amanda Cable . Forget the plain old Easter egg — this season’s chocolate treats are more likely to be flat, soft-centred or pepper-flavoured. Mum-of-three Amanda Cable and her chocolate-loving son Charlie, 12, give their verdicts on some egg-straordinary Easter offerings. WHAT YOU GET: An Easter egg that looks like a fried egg, with a yellow yolk and ‘fried’ white, in a box with small milk chocolate, caramel-filled ‘chips’. AMANDA’S VERDICT: Bite into the white of your ‘fried’ egg and there’s delicious vanilla-flavoured white chocolate. Reach the yolk and the caramel truffle melts. The chips are filled with caramel. A treat that kept us all laughing. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: Funny and tasty and my favourite egg of them all! Normally I don’t eat egg yolk, but I ate this one. WHAT . YOU GET: There’s a real sense of drama as you lift the lid of this . elegant black box and the four cardboard walls open out to reveal a . beautiful dark chocolate velvet-effect egg on a stand. The . egg has been hand-sprayed with matte chocolate. Inside lie six . chocolate ganache-filled speckled eggs on a nest of vanilla-flavoured . edible shredded paper. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: When you crack open the egg (it’s very thick), the incredibly . life-like mini speckled eggs have the softest, most delicious filling . I’ve ever tried. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: This is a clever egg. The taste is more for grown-ups, but eating the straw was awesome! WHAT . YOU GET: A vintage-style box containing a medium milk chocolate egg . with sea salt, and a medium dark chocolate egg with chilli and black . pepper. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I don’t like dark chocolate, but this egg is a delicious mix of . pepper and cocoa. The crunch of salty milk chocolate in the other egg . was even better. CHARLIE’S . VERDICT: The dark egg tasted too bitter and the pepper made me cough, . though my Dad loved it. The salty egg sounded like a bad idea but they . actually tasted really good together — like having salt on chips. WHAT YOU GET: A flat slab of chocolate in Cinnamon & Waffle or Cookies & Cream flavour. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I found the flavour too sweet, but the children were quick to . devour theirs, and pointed out that sickly sweet tastes are what Easter . is all about. I think they missed the bit about Jesus. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: Because it was flat, it was easier to stuff loads of chocolate in your mouth at once. WHAT . YOU GET: A beautiful hen coop with pretty chicken wire and doors that . open to reveal milk and dark chocolate speckled eggs inside. So . beautiful you’ll never want to throw it away. AMANDA’S VERDICT: The chocolate melts in your mouth and even the edible ‘straw’ is delicious. A perfect gift for any age. CHARLIE’S . VERDICT: The little eggs are so rich I can tell they are really . expensive and I don’t think these are for kids. At least we had the hen . house to play with. WHAT . YOU GET: A pineapple so realistic that I dare anyone not to do a . double-take. There’s a subtle spray finish in gold and green, hand-made . score marks and a lush green crown made of solid (gorgeous) chocolate. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: When I attempted to break into this, it broke into about 20 . pieces — making me want to cry. This is more like a work of art than an . egg. Rich, tasty chocolate that melts in your mouth, and it comes with a . bag of mini eggs with exotic flavours such as Jamaican pepper and lime . coulis. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: I preferred this to normal pineapples. WHAT . YOU GET: A vintage box wrapped with ribbon, which opens to reveal an . egg wrapped in bright blue foil. Inside the milk chocolate shell . contains four praline quail eggs and four salted caramel seagull eggs — . for whatever mood your teenager wakes up in. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I tested this on my grumpy 15-year-old daughter and she loved . the box. Inside, the sweet little eggs almost raised a teenage smile. RUBY’S . VERDICT: I think my Mum reckons she’s really funny giving me these . eggs. As if they are just for teenagers! I slammed my door I was so . cross, but actually the eggs are really tasty and the salty ones are . gorgeous. WHAT YOU GET: A stunning red presentation box tied with white and gold ribbon. Inside is a chocolate fish with pink and green decorated scales. AMANDA’S VERDICT: This was really delicious and I appreciated each smooth, rich mouthful — unlike the children. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: My brother and I rowed over who was going to eat which bit. In the end I had the tail, he had the eye and they both tasted really nice. Much nicer than real fish.
Mum-of-three Amanda Cable and her son Charlie, 12, both love chocolate .
They taste-test the more original Easter egg offerings .
Even 'grumpy' teenager' Ruby is won over by her 'stroppy teenager' egg .
By . Amanda Cable . Forget the plain old Easter egg — this season’s chocolate treats are more likely to be flat, soft-centred or pepper-flavoured. Mum-of-three Amanda Cable and her chocolate-loving son Charlie, 12, give their verdicts on some egg-straordinary Easter offerings. WHAT YOU GET: An Easter egg that looks like a fried egg, with a yellow yolk and ‘fried’ white, in a box with small milk chocolate, caramel-filled ‘chips’. AMANDA’S VERDICT: Bite into the white of your ‘fried’ egg and there’s delicious vanilla-flavoured white chocolate. Reach the yolk and the caramel truffle melts. The chips are filled with caramel. A treat that kept us all laughing. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: Funny and tasty and my favourite egg of them all! Normally I don’t eat egg yolk, but I ate this one. WHAT . YOU GET: There’s a real sense of drama as you lift the lid of this . elegant black box and the four cardboard walls open out to reveal a . beautiful dark chocolate velvet-effect egg on a stand. The . egg has been hand-sprayed with matte chocolate. Inside lie six . chocolate ganache-filled speckled eggs on a nest of vanilla-flavoured . edible shredded paper. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: When you crack open the egg (it’s very thick), the incredibly . life-like mini speckled eggs have the softest, most delicious filling . I’ve ever tried. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: This is a clever egg. The taste is more for grown-ups, but eating the straw was awesome! WHAT . YOU GET: A vintage-style box containing a medium milk chocolate egg . with sea salt, and a medium dark chocolate egg with chilli and black . pepper. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I don’t like dark chocolate, but this egg is a delicious mix of . pepper and cocoa. The crunch of salty milk chocolate in the other egg . was even better. CHARLIE’S . VERDICT: The dark egg tasted too bitter and the pepper made me cough, . though my Dad loved it. The salty egg sounded like a bad idea but they . actually tasted really good together — like having salt on chips. WHAT YOU GET: A flat slab of chocolate in Cinnamon & Waffle or Cookies & Cream flavour. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I found the flavour too sweet, but the children were quick to . devour theirs, and pointed out that sickly sweet tastes are what Easter . is all about. I think they missed the bit about Jesus. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: Because it was flat, it was easier to stuff loads of chocolate in your mouth at once. WHAT . YOU GET: A beautiful hen coop with pretty chicken wire and doors that . open to reveal milk and dark chocolate speckled eggs inside. So . beautiful you’ll never want to throw it away. AMANDA’S VERDICT: The chocolate melts in your mouth and even the edible ‘straw’ is delicious. A perfect gift for any age. CHARLIE’S . VERDICT: The little eggs are so rich I can tell they are really . expensive and I don’t think these are for kids. At least we had the hen . house to play with. WHAT . YOU GET: A pineapple so realistic that I dare anyone not to do a . double-take. There’s a subtle spray finish in gold and green, hand-made . score marks and a lush green crown made of solid (gorgeous) chocolate. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: When I attempted to break into this, it broke into about 20 . pieces — making me want to cry. This is more like a work of art than an . egg. Rich, tasty chocolate that melts in your mouth, and it comes with a . bag of mini eggs with exotic flavours such as Jamaican pepper and lime . coulis. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: I preferred this to normal pineapples. WHAT . YOU GET: A vintage box wrapped with ribbon, which opens to reveal an . egg wrapped in bright blue foil. Inside the milk chocolate shell . contains four praline quail eggs and four salted caramel seagull eggs — . for whatever mood your teenager wakes up in. AMANDA’S . VERDICT: I tested this on my grumpy 15-year-old daughter and she loved . the box. Inside, the sweet little eggs almost raised a teenage smile. RUBY’S . VERDICT: I think my Mum reckons she’s really funny giving me these . eggs. As if they are just for teenagers! I slammed my door I was so . cross, but actually the eggs are really tasty and the salty ones are . gorgeous. WHAT YOU GET: A stunning red presentation box tied with white and gold ribbon. Inside is a chocolate fish with pink and green decorated scales. AMANDA’S VERDICT: This was really delicious and I appreciated each smooth, rich mouthful — unlike the children. CHARLIE’S VERDICT: My brother and I rowed over who was going to eat which bit. In the end I had the tail, he had the eye and they both tasted really nice. Much nicer than real fish.
pepper-flavoured. Mum-of-three Amanda Cable and her chocolate-loving son Charlie, 12, give their offerings. WHAT YOU GET: An Easter egg that looks