I grew up in a Jewish household where menorahs and Shabbat candles replaced Christmas trees and Easter bunnies, which meant I didn’t have much help when our team started planning Easter content. But even though I don’t know the first thing about Easter, I still to do Know about candy. Finding the best Easter chocolates – bunnies and non-bunnies alike – was a task I could handle.
As we blindly taste tested more than 20 milk- and dark-chocolate bunnies (and a few eggs), we agreed that most chocolate Easter bunnies are designed with aesthetics in mind, while flavor and texture Appear to be of minimal importance. That said, we landed on a handful of dark- and milk-chocolate bunnies that are as delicious as they are adorable. (And, since I had lots of leftover chocolate bunnies left to eat, I was inspired to make my first Easter dinner to go along with my new candy-bunny friends — for which I’ll be relying on a solid menu To guide me.)
Best Milk-Chocolate Easter Bunnies
Testing milk-chocolate Easter bunnies proved to be an exhausting task—we did it because we love you. Almost every rabbit was excessively sweet, with very little balance or chocolate flavor. We were looking for a milk chocolate that was nice and creamy, with a distinct cocoa-buttery flavor, and some bunnies jumped out at us.
Our top Milk-Chocolate Bunnies, made by Harbor Sweets, feature caramel, pecans, almonds and butter-crunch toffee pieces, wrapped in velvety chocolate. Although we were testing for taste, it doesn’t hurt that this bunny is a bit more interesting to look at, as it’s made with a different mold than those used by most of its competitors.
We also enjoyed milk-chocolate bunnies from Li-Lac and Jacques TorresBoth were nicely seasoned and had a balance between sweetness and cocoa-butter flavor. If you’re going for a more classic bunny that doesn’t have any textured filling, these bunnies are for you.
Best Dark-Chocolate Easter Bunnies
After eating my way through a mountain of milk-chocolate bunnies, I was relieved to eat some dark-chocolate bunnies that tasted good and had a nice texture — although we found that even the dark-chocolate bunnies were quite light, at that point. Lacking the intense dark-chocolate flavor we were looking for. Our favorites were slightly bitter, with a distinct chocolateiness.
There seem to be more nut and toffee-filled chocolates available in our office, which is probably why the dark-chocolate Harbor Sweets bunnies took the lead in this part of the test, too. We were happy to eat the well-balanced dark chocolate and enjoy the same filling in Harbor’s milk-chocolate bunnies. The slight saltiness in the toffee filling was a nice touch.
In this category, we also liked Jacques Torres’ Bunnies, whose high-quality dark chocolate after three days of tasting I had to return to our snack table to pluck another ear (sorry, bunny). Jacques Torres Bunnies come in a variety of sizes, making them perfect for snacking or using as showstopping holiday decorations.
Our Favorite Chocolate Eggs (and More)
If you’ve finished all your chocolate bunnies and still want more sweets, we’ve got you covered. During our bunny tasting, we found a few other candies that we liked. Of all the fancy, elaborately painted Easter eggs we sampled, our favorite was this egg variety pack verrucaA mixture of tiny, beautifully decorated milk and dark-chocolate eggs housed in a thin plastic tube.
For those of us who want to stray a little beyond traditional Easter-candy styles — or, like me, who don’t really know what Easter traditions are Are-this little wood Gift Box by LA BurdickMakes the perfect Easter gift. Wrapped with a pretty bow, the box contains an assortment of fancy, ganache-filled dark-, milk-, and white-chocolate bunnies, various chocolate truffles, and sugar-dusted marzipan eggs. Of course, this gift box didn’t make it into our official taste-test results, because…I had already finished most of the sweets in it by the day of the test. Oops.
