Lindt has knocked up to 70% off its best-selling Easter chocolate including Easter eggs and its iconic giant truffle ball, ...

CADBURY has slashed the price of its Easter eggs to as little as 65p in a huge sale. Discounts as large as 80 per cent off ...

Many people are convinced Easter egg chocolate tastes better than regular chocolate, and they may be onto something.

One key difference is that Easter chocolate, particularly in the form of hollow eggs, is designed to melt more quickly in the ...

Easter chocolate in the shape of an egg or an animal provides a large contact area inside the mouth meaning it will melt faster than a block. This impacts how quickly aroma compounds are released ...

Easter chocolate in the shape of an egg or an animal provides a large contact area inside the mouth meaning it will melt faster than a block. This impacts how quickly aroma compounds are released ...

By the time Easter Sunday arrived, households often had a large surplus of eggs ... Nowadays, many "Easter eggs" are also chocolate eggs (often hollow and filled with candy) or plastic eggs ...

But the tradition of chocolate Easter eggs did not emerge for another 300 ... a symbolic re-enactment of the Bible’s account of a large stone being rolled from Christ’s tomb.

A crowd favourite, the Cadbury Twirl Large Chocolate Easter Egg includes a hollow milk chocolate egg made with Cadbury Dairy Milk and two Cadbury Twirls (packs of twin milk chocolate fingers).