The most exclusive Easter eggs in the world

It is the sweetest and most chocolatier time of the year. The Semana Santa we like it because it leaves us a little while to rest, to travel, to spend time doing what we like the most, but also to enjoy the best desserts. Both traditional and groundbreaking.

Today Summum, we have manufactured a “egg hunt” made to measure and we have gone in search of the elaborations of most exclusive and original chocolate of the season around the world. Yes, in some cases they are so exclusive that there is no choice but to go for them. To London, Paris or the French Riviera …

Claridge’s – Limited Edition Art Deco Inspired

For more than a century, the hotel’s checkered floor Claridge’s in London has welcomed celebrities and prominent figures from royalty and politics. Precisely in this sophisticated environment, where black and white prevail, is inspired an easter egg which is, in all the details, pure luxury.

Each egg is made with three varieties of chocolate Valrhona –Black, milk and white– and contains a selection of artisan praline quail eggs. Is hand wrapped with an Art Deco inspired black and white paper produced exclusively for Claridge’s and with an elegant black bow. Sold in a beautiful seawater green box, another iconic color of the hotel. The pastry team has been slow three days to create the hundred units from this year’s collection.

The price: 55 pounds (about 64 euros).

Baratti & Milan: excelencia y textura

Chocolate, confectionery, coffee. Baratti & Milan It is an icon of the city of Turin, in Piedmont. Some of its most recognized specialties are giaduiotto y el cremino, delicate and creamy hazelnut chocolate bonbons.

The spring collection sports some of chocolate eggs with more personality on the market. Called Hazelnut and its walls inside are literally full of whole hazelnuts (nocciola means hazelnut) of the variety “Round and gentle”. There are small and large ones and with dark, white and gianduja chocolate. There are also them with whole almonds (in this case they are called Mandorlato) with milk or dark chocolate. The case exudes timeless elegance.

Each filtering bag Prices They vary from 33 euros for the 370 gr Nocciolato to 45 for the 550 gr.

Neuhaus: long live the chocolates

Each filtering bag chocolate lovers all over the world owe a lot to Neuhaus, because back in 1912 this Belgian house with more than 160 years of experience invented, nothing less, the chocolate. Small chocolate eggs Limited Edition made with infusions of flowers. An elegant egg-shaped box filled with chocolates and small chocolate eggs. Another in the shape of a bunny with an assortment of nine chocolate eggs. These are some of the proposals this year.

The most ideal option, for those who shy away from the classic, is the “ballotoeuf” (a combination between the ballotin case and oeuf, egg) a version of the traditional mona de pascua. Inside it hides an Easter egg filled with chocolates and chocolate eggs.

Price: It can be purchased for 43 euros.

Cacao Sampaka: brushstrokes of color

Sampaka cocoa It is an essential address if you love chocolate above all else. Apart from the traditional large chocolate eggs and from the originals eggs with “Lego” pieces, this year’s collection boasts some novelties. Among them, some exclusive Easter eggs devised by the master chocolatier Sergio gil inspired by childhood. On the outside, these eggs show off intense strokes of color.

If you want it, it is something really unforgettable, you know that in the Barcelona store it is possible to bring your own gift to hide it inside a chocolate egg. Unique and tailored.

Price: from 20,25 euros.

Du Cap-Eden-Roc: a luxury weekend on the French Riviera

From Cape Eden-Roc is a luxury hotel located in Cap D’Antibes, on the French Riviera, a town that has hosted the competition since 1996 The Voiles d’Antibes. Sea, sun, exclusivity and sailing with unfolded sails towards relaxation. Can you ask for something more from life? Maybe yes, but only this week.

Taking inspiration from the idyllic landscape that surrounds the hotel, the pastry chef Lilian Bonnefoi has created an egg that combines milk chocolate from the Swiss Alps and black Grand Cru from Madagascar. Inside it hides tiny chocolate fish and on the outside, of course, it is a clear tribute to the candles that appear on the horizon of this exclusive town. This egg, of Limited Edition, can be purchased for 95 euros during Holy Week. Guests staying for the entire Easter weekend will have the pleasure of savoring this creation as soon as they step into their room.

A chocolate sculpture in a luxury hotel in Paris

Julien AlvarezSpanish by birth and Parisian by adoption, he won the coveted title of best pastry chef in the world in 2011 and is now Executive Pastry Chef en Le Bristol Paris, one of the most luxurious hotels in the French capital.

For Easter 2019, Álvarez has created a magnificent 73% Jamaican dark chocolate egg and cocoa butter inspired by the craftsmanship of Puglia, in southern Italy, the fashionable destination of the moment. It is a Limited Edition that can be purchased for 110 euros exclusively in the Café Antonia, one of the hotel’s gastronomic spaces.

Le Boudoir: nine nuances of chocolate

El Hotel de crillon It is another very TOP option to spend a few days in Paris. Extension of this hotel, Le Boudoir is a sweet boutique where one of the most appetizing and original chocolate creations of this year will be on sale until April 28.

It is a limited edition egg devised by the pastry chef Pablo Gicquel that brings together nine of the most exceptional chocolates in the world: from white to black Grand Cru from Peru 72%, to milk chocolate from the Dominican Republic. Its price, 125 euros.

Another proposal, what does it cost? 55 euros, is a declination of three smaller eggs: caramel, milk chocolate and caramelized pecans from Texas and hazelnut praline.

Pierre Hermé: silver and gold

Pierre Hermé It is one of the most influential pastry chefs in the world and its boutiques are at the height of its creations. Christofle is a famous French goldsmith’s house that produces, among other luxury objects, el Mood, a piece (in gold or silver) designed to arrange the cutlery on the table in the most unexpected way. An aspirational object shaped like an egg.

Hence, the Maison Hermé has sought the hand of Christofle to elaborate one of his most exclusive paschal creations. A medium-sized egg, a unique piece covered in half with silver leaves that costs 49 euros.

And another, from Limited Edition, which measures 30 cm, weighs almost 2 kilos and hides another chocolate egg inside. Is done with Pure Origin cocoa Belize, silver leaves and costs 240 euros.

Alain Ducasse Chocolate: lujo chocolatero

Le Alain Ducasse chocolate or how to put the talent of one of the most TOP chefs in the world at the service of the chocolatier art. His creations are pure elegance and the Easter collection, the time of year when chocolate triumphs, is to faint.

Chocolate eggs appear to be carved into stone and come filled with chocolates with shapes of fish and shells. Its price around 50 euros.

However, if you want something more original, better bet on the chocolate bars, dark or with milk, which show the profile of a small rabbit on the surface. They come in wonderful hexagonal shaped boxes. Or by the eggs pralines flavored with coconut, pistachio, almonds and hazelnut placed in an irresistible egg cup.

You can order everything online (Shipments to Europe for orders over 100 euros are free).

Flor D’KKO: “egg hunt” in an exclusive setting

Chocolate shop located in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Madrid, Flower D’KKO presents a very original Easter collection. There from chocolate eggs Grand Cru 61% XXL size cocoa (80 euros) to small ones with truffles inside.

There are also surprise egg lollipops with chocolate figurines inside. In addition, this year, the firm collaborates with the luxury hotel Palace of the Dukes of Madrid making delicious chocolate surprises available to its guests throughout this week.

On Sunday, April 21, chocolate eggs will be the protagonists of a fun “egg hunt” along and across the 1.000 m2 that the hotel garden measures.