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One of the year's most festive meals features the same components that make up perhaps the most standard plate in the American repertoire: eggs, bread and pork – commonly recognized as the nation's breakfast triumvirate – are the defining ingredients of Easter celebrations the world over.

Of course, few holiday observers plan to serve up scrambled eggs, bacon and toast on Easter Sunday: Diners will instead indulge in stout pink hams, hot cross buns, sweet yeast cakes, currant biscuits, cream-filled chocolate eggs, smoked kielbasas and gaudily decorated hard boiled eggs, paying homage to traditions forged in medieval Europe. While Americans have modified many of their inherited menus, the essential elements have changed little since the first Christians devised their holiday meals.

If you, or somebody in your life, have a yearning for something just a bit more extravagant than the average Brach's bunny in your Easter basket, then the Chocolate Trading Co. is the place for you to shop this year. The shop, located in England, and the site, for chocoholics around the world, specialize in high end chocolate treats.

My favorite offering is the explosive chocolate bomb from Braquier. The description is quite English, giving the measurements in centimeters, a whopping 18 of them, and is made of chocolate with a 65% cocoa content.  It comes with its own plastic shield to deter any serious bodily harm to dinner guests. Once lit, the bomb quickly detonates to spray dinner guests with shards of chocolate and the shrapnel of chocolate dragees. Due to the explosive properties of the product, the bomb is not eligible for shipping outside of the country, it is only available in the U.K.

 

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Cadbury Mini Eggs are one of the best things about Easter, right alongside Peeps and Whopper Robin Eggs. The single bad thing about them, in fact, is that the are only for sale around the springtime holiday, so you have to stock up during the days after Easter Sunday when all the seasonal candies are on sale.

Just like the majority of non-imported Cadbury products sold in the US, the mini eggs are made on license by Hershey's. While Hershey's does a respectable job of replicating the taste of the milky Cadbury chocolates in their bars, in no single candy is the taste better than these chocolates. The mini eggs are coated in a thin, crisp candy shell. Unlike most candy-coated chocolates, the shell is delicate and not shined to a high gloss. Instead, the spotted pastel eggs have a matte finish that gives them a more egg-like appearance and a more textured mouth feel. The shell melts away quickly - if you can resist chewing it unlike me - to reveal the ultra-creamy milk chocolate center of the egg.

There are lots of excellent chocolate eggs to choose from, but I dare say that there is no better solid chocolate one than these.