Best eggs for chocoholics

L'Artisan du Chocolat: Couture eggs made with top quality Madagascan or Ecuadorean chocolate and filled with couture mini eggs. From £6.50. 020 7824 8365.

Fortnum & Mason: hand-decorated eggs tailor-made for F & M with Madagascan chocolate, filled with truffles or pralines in Georgian-inspired boxes. £40 (454g) £62 (908g).020 734 8040.

Chocolate Society: organic dark or milk chocolate egg filled with chocolate truffles £25; a boxed trio of beautiful eggs, including a "dinosaur egg" flavoured and coloured with Japanese green tea; or Creature Eggs, £16.85. 0845 2308899, www.chocolate.co.uk.

Pierre Marcolini: seriously superior dark Venezuelan or milk Javanese eggs filled with pralines and truffles. £20 (50g) £35 (250g) £65 (500g) 020 7795 6611.

Hotel Chocolat: The Butterfly Egg, with white and dark chocolate, from online chocolate site. £17.95. www.hotelchocolat.co.uk.

John Lewis: The Easter Lovers Box, a gift set including a milk chocolate egg, hot-cross-bunflavour chocolates, hand-decorated Chocolate Fried Eggs, £3; The James Hand Marbled Coloured Chocolate Egg, £4. 08456 049 049.

Gloriette Patisserie: handmade Easter eggs made from Belgian chocolate and decorated with sugar, marzipan, flowers, animals or candied fruit. All eggs are filled with fresh cream, truffles and pralines. Prices vary. 020 7589 4750.