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These Are the UK’s Best Chocolate Easter Eggs for 2024

Here’s why you should spend £85 on your holiday treat.

At £38.50 ($49), Bettys offers a more affordable, hand-finished, high-end chocolate Easter egg. — At £38.50 ($49), Bettys offers a more affordable, hand-finished, high-end chocolate Easter egg.
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By Helen Chandler-Wilde

March 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

Easter is coming, though this year’s celebrations might be less sweet than usual. Cocoa prices have doubled since the start of the year and currently stand at all-time highs, with bad weather in the main crop areas of West Africa creating shortages.

If you’ve been planning to buy a chocolate Easter egg or two, that’s unwelcome news, because high commodity costs are slamming retail prices. Easter eggs cost as much as 53% more than they did last year, according to analysis from the Grocer, a trade magazine