THE best supermarket Easter Egg has been revealed in a huge taste test and its not Lidl, Aldi or Tesco.
Asda has been crowned the best-tasting supermarket for chocolate eggs in the UK.
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Britain’s third largest supermarket knocked out Hotel Chocolat, which is known for its posh festive treats.
Cadbury and Quality Street were also trumped trumped by the bargain store in Good Housekeeping’s annual taste test.
Lucky tasters sampled a whopping 96 milk, white, dark and vegan-friendly chocolate eggs this year.
Each was rated out a assessed on appearance, aroma and flavour and then rated out of 100.
Asda topped the charts with its Exceptional by Asda Caramel, Pretzel & Honeycomb Milk Chocolate Egg which achieved the highest overall taste score.
The delight, which comes with salted caramel chocolate, retails for £9.98.
Asda’s egg was also named both the winner of Best Value and Best Milk Chocolate Easter Egg.
Experts at Good Housekeeping said: “If you only buy one Easter egg this year, make it Asda’s crunchy pretzel and honeycomb-studded milk chocolate showstopper.”
Asda was the only supermarket to earn the top spot for two Easter Egg categories, scooping up Best Dark Chocolate Egg too with its Exceptional by Asda Orange & Ginger Dark Chocolate Egg.
This treat also retails for £9.98.
Coming in second was Russell & Atwell’s Easter Egg Mini Monty which retails for £34.
The pricey egg comes with a blend of milk and dark chocolate and five packets of fresh truffles, featuring salted caramel, creamy milk, cracking hazelnut, smooth dark and dirty blonde flavours.
It is available to buy online at the Russell & Atwell website.
In third was Hotel Chocolat’s Extra Thick Eggs for £34.95.
The egg is filled with truffles, pralines and caramels, and created with half 40% milk chocolate and half fruity caramel-flavoured milk chocolate.
Full list of taste test winners
Best Milk Chocolate Easter Eggs
- Exceptional by ASDA Caramel, Pretzel & Honeycomb Milk Chocolate Egg 300g
£9.98 at ASDA - Russell & Atwell Easter Egg Mini Monty 330g
£34 at russellandatwell.com - Hotel Chocolat Extra-Thick Easter Egg – Milk to Caramel 390g
£34.95 at Hotel Chocolat - Cadbury Dairy Milk Half & Half Ultimate Egg 372g
£15 at Ocado - Quality Street Inclusion Easter Egg 495g
£12 at Ocado - Melt Hazelnut & Popcorn Caramel Breton Egg 650g
£70 at Amazon - Waitrose No.1 Milk Chocolate Flat Easter Egg 190g
£12 at Waitrose - Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Easter Egg 242g
£12 at Waitrose
Best Dark Chocolate Easter Eggs
- Exceptional by ASDA Orange & Ginger Dark Chocolate Egg 200g
£9.98 at ASDA - Cocoa Loco Dark Chocolate Egg 225g
£14.95 at Abel & Cole - Bettys Speckled Dark Chocolate Easter Egg 350g
£27.50 at Bettys - Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Belgian Dark Chocolate Orange XL Easter Egg 230g
£10 at Sainsbury’s - Morrisons The Best Belgian Dark Chocolate & Pink Salt Easter Egg 240g
£7.50 at Morrisons - Waitrose No.1 Dark Chocolate & Nut Flat Florentine Easter Egg 204g
£12 at Waitrose - Co-op Irresistible Marbled Millionaire’s Easter Egg 200g
£7 at Co-op
Best White (and Blonde) Chocolate Easter Eggs
- Waitrose No.1 The Chocolate Croissant Easter Egg 275g
£15 at Waitrose - Lindt Lindor White Easter Egg 260g
£13 at Amazon - Cocoa Loco Lemon Drizzle White Chocolate Egg 225g
£14.95 at Abel & Cole - Bettys Golden Blonde Chocolate Flat Easter Egg 135g
£15.25 at Bettys - Exceptional by ASDA Hazelnut & Blonde Chocolate Egg 200g
£9.98 at ASDA - Hotel Chocolat Nibbly Egg White 205g
£22.95 at Hotel Chocolat - Waitrose No.1 Blonde Chocolate & Biscuit Flat Easter Egg 178g
£12 at Waitrose - Aldi Specially Selected Salted Blonde & Milk Chocolate Caramel Double Indulgence Egg 300g
£11.99 at Aldi
Best Vegan and Free-From Easter Eggs
- Morrisons The Best Caramel Flavour Choc Easter Egg with Sea Salt Truffles 200g
£7.50 at Morrisons - Co-op Gro Salted Toffee Crunch Easter Egg 150g
£5 at Co-op - Chococo Earth Easter Egg 175g
£16.50 at Chococo - Aldi Dairyfine Free From Rocky Road Easter Egg 100g
£2.99 at Aldi - Cutter & Squidge Vegan Easter Egg 350g
£31.99 at Cutter & Squidge - NOMO Creamy Choc Egg & Mini Bars 154g
£8 at Sainsbury’s
Best Children’s Easter Eggs
- Cadbury Mini Eggs Ultimate Egg 232g
£9.35 at Cadbury - Libeert Creamy Milk Chocolate 30g
£1.50 at Sainsbury’s - Waitrose Sam on Toast Easter Chocolates 2x45g
£6 at Waitrose - Lindt Gold Bunny Easter Egg 115g
£5 at Amazon - Chococo Milk and White Chocolate Dinosaur Easter Egg 175g
£16.50 at Chococo - Bettys Jenny the Sheep White Chocolate Easter Egg 250g
£18 at Bettys - Lidl Mister Choc Children’s Easter Egg 200g
£6 at Lidl (in-store only) - Abel & Cole Milk Chocolate & Orange Mini Eggs, Organic (140g)
£8 at Abel & Cole - Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Faces Small Chocolate Easter Egg 96g
£1.75 at Sainsbury’s
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don’t have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
