Whether you are scouring the aisles for sugary, shiny treats for your kids or browsing the local deli for an organic, 70 per cent cocoa indulgence for yourself there has never been more choice for chocolate lovers at Easter.

In all price ranges and across all tastes it is now possible to buy good quality chocolate eggs with a high cocoa content. Even better, garish packaging is being replaced by the likes of handpainted wooden eggs, and pleasingly kitsch boxes with more than a nod to Victoriana.

Of course, the sugar highs of the trashier end of the Easter egg market traditionally beloved of the Brits are still readily available (and this list includes a few of the yummiest) but in the post-Green & Blacks era, it is just as easy to find the dark, organic, fairtrade and handmade kind.

So, here are 20 of the best arranged in price order and now it's over to you for the hard bit - choosing.

1. Divine Milk Chocolate Easter Egg

For once, chocolate with a clear conscience. Yummy fairtrade egg filled with lots of tiny solid chocolate eggs.

£4.99, www.divinechocolates.com, 020 7387 6550

2. Tesco White Chocolate Crème Brulee Egg

Enormous white chocolate egg with crunchy butterscotch bits running through. Scrumptious but not for the sugar shy.

£4.99, www.tesco.com, 0845 7225533

3. Sainsburys Taste the Difference Fruit and Nut Belgian Milk Chocolate Egg

Another huge egg, this time with chopped nuts and the odd raisin mixed into pretty decent chocolate.

£6.99, www.sainsburys.co.uk, 0800 636 262

4. Rococo White Chocolate Easter Egg - BEST FOR PACKAGING

The cult chocolatier moulds 28 per cent cocoa solids with a kick of vodka into a goose-egg size. Great Victoriana packaging too.

£8.95, www.rococochocolates.com, 020 7352 5857

5. The Chocolate Empire Handmade Organic Earl Grey Easter Egg

An unlikely but successful combination of bergamot and milk chocolate from this Brighton-based chocolatier.

£10, www.abelandcole.co.uk, 08452 626 262

6. Moo Free Chocolates Organic Vegan & Dairy Free Dark Easter Egg

Even if you are not lactose intolerant or vegan this is delicious dark chocolate made with 73 per cent cocoa.

£8.99, www.alotofchocolate.co.uk, 0845 094 6498

7. Green and Blacks Milk Egg with Miniature Chocolate Bars

The original organic chocolate brand lets you choose your favourite flavour for the egg and then gives you all the others in little bars.

£12.00, www.greenandblacksdirect.com, 0870 242 2597

8. Chocolate Alchemist Milk Chocolate Nut Jewelled Egg

Delicious milk chocolate studded with almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts.

£14.50, www.abelandcole.co.uk , 08452 626 262

9. James Chocolates Single Origin Ecuador Dark Chocolate Egg

Maximise the health benefits and minimise the sugar with this 70 per cent chocolate.

£15, www.johnlewis.com, 08456 049 049

10. Booja Booja Large Ginger Wine Truffle Egg

Award-winning stem ginger and dark chocolate organic truffles inside wooden eggs handpainted in Kashmir.

£18.99, www.boojabooja.com, 01508 558 888

11. L'Artisan du Chocolat Eco Chick Egg

Organic chocolate made from Peruvian beans encased in beautiful pastel coloured shell inspired by wild birds' eggs.

£18.99, www.artisanduchocolat.com, 020 7824 8365

12. Oeuf Orfevre, Dark Chocolate Easter Egg

Dark chocolate Easter egg, flecked with gold and silver leaf and filled with miniature solid versions.

£18.99, www.chocolatetrading.co.uk , 08700 508 244

13. Prestat Marc De Champagne Easter Egg

Bright purple, gold and green packaging that is practically tastier than the milk chocolate egg. Great truffles too.

£22, www.prestat.co.uk, 0800 0213 123

14. Fortnum & Mason Three Excellent Eggs - BEST FOR CONNOISSEURS

Three dark chocolate eggs made with beans from three different origins - Madagascar, São Tome and Arriba.

£22.50 , www.fortnumandmason.com, 020 7734 8040

15. Charbonnel et Walker Rose and Violet Plain Chocolate Egg

Classic rose and violet creams inside a plain chocolate egg - well, if the Queen likes them...

£25, www.charbonnel.co.uk, 020 7491 0939

16. William Curley Amedei Chocolate Egg filled with House Dark Truffles - BEST FOR TASTE

One whiff of this egg from the UK's premier chocolatier tells you instantly that it is a cut above. Will appease the most discerning chocolate lover's palate.

£25-£50, www.williamcurley.co.uk, 0208 740 4857

17. The Eggsibitionist Extra Large Chocolate Easter Egg

Almost a kilo of indulgence "flaunting" 32 praline and ganache filled mini eggs and handmade chocolates so if it's size that matters to you...

£46, www.hotelchocolat.co.uk, 08444 931313

18. Giorgio Armani Dolci Easter Egg

You've got the 'It bag', the 'It shoes' and now - if you happen to be jetting to Milan this Easter - you can get yourself the 'It Easter Egg'.

From €60, www.giorgioarmani.com, +39 02 76003234

19. Paul A Young Bespoke Easter Egg

Haute couture chocolate however you want it by the innovative chocolatier behind marmite chocolates and port and stilton truffles.

£95, www.paulayoung.co.uk, 020 7424 5750

20. Maison du Chocolat Oeuf Tresor

Make the ultimate easter statement with a solid Valrhona chocolate egg covered in a kilo of golden leaf designs. But be quick - only five have been made.

£550, www.harveynichols.com, 0207 235 5000

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