Easter 2026: the best chocolates from artisans all over France
At Easter, our French craftsmen redouble their imagination to offer chocolate creations for young and old alike, each more surprising, regressive and comforting than the last.
From the essential hen to the revisited egg, via a multitude of chocolate animals, cocoa comes in all shapes and colors: white, milk or dark. Made from beans from Venezuela, Peru or Madagascar, these creations reveal praline hearts, frying or marshmallow fillings. From Paris to Nice, with a detour to Sarreguemines, chocolate lovers will find what they're looking for in this selection of 25 gourmet creations.
The dragon's egg by Yann Maritaud, Songes et cacao in Lamastre
At Songes et Cacao, Yann Maritaud has created an impressive dragon's egg made from 75% raw Peruvian cocoa, cocoa bean nibs and cocoa beans. A chocolate egg that explores three origins of raw cocoa, certified organic and Nature & Progrès, for an intense cocoa experience.
- Price: €18.50 per 150 g piece
- Where to buy Available in stores
- songes et Cacao
Chaponie heroes, by Chapon à Paris
Discover the four new chocolate animals designed in the Chapon workshops: Sam, Bianca, Paco and Lili: in white, dark or milk chocolate. Decorated with touches of natural coloring, each one is topped with a frying pan and small eggs, made with pure cocoa from Madagascar.
- Price: €29 per 150 g
- Where to buy Available online or in store
- Chapon Paris
The Easter jungle, by Cluizel in Paris
For Easter, Maison Cluizel has imagined the "Easter jungle", composed of three original moldings, with aromatic notes of Kayambe 45% milk and 72% dark chocolate: the gentle sloth, the mischievous chocolate bird and the mystery egg, filled with praline and chocolate spread.
- Price: from €10 per 40 g piece
- Where to buy Available online and in stores
- www.cluizel.com
The lace Easter egg, by Boissier in Paris
For the festive season, Maison Boissier Paris is showcasing its iconic lace egg, in dark or milk chocolate. inside, you'll discover chocolate fried eggs and petals. An elegant creation, emblematic of the House's savoir-faire.
- Price: from €10 per 42 g piece
- Where to buy Available in stores
- www.maison-boissier.com
A Bauhaus collection by Jadis et Gourmande in Paris
Les ateliers Jadis et Gourmande bring chocolate and art together, creating eggs inspired by the Bauhaus movement. Three colorful geometric sculptures, filled with fried and small Easter eggs, combine art and craft. Composed of an intense 72% cocoa dark chocolate, an indulgent 33% milk chocolate and a delicately aniseed white chocolate from Papua New Guinea.
- Price: from €11.50 per 60 g
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Jadis et Gourmande Port-Royal
L'œuf carreau de ciment, À la Mère de Famille x Jacques Monneraud in Paris
In addition to the collection of egg cups created by ceramist Jacques Monneraud, the À la Mère de Famille workshop invites chocolate lovers to enjoy an egg with a cement tile motif, in milk or dark chocolate, topped with dry fritures, directly inspired by the decor of their historic boutique.
- Price: from €21 per 145 g
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- À la Mère de Famille
Patrick Roger's smooth eggs at Sceaux
Patrick Roger has designed smooth eggs marked with a colored line, using the chocolate subject as a painting canvas. Available in dark or milk chocolate, the egg is topped with almond and hazelnut praline fritters.
- Price: from €22
- Where to buy Available in stores
- Patrick Roger
Edwart Chocolatier animals in Paris
Edwart Chocolatier's animals: a look that makes you smile, a filling that will delight your taste buds: Jean de la Souris with toasted vanilla and dark chocolate, Francis Bacon with sesame and dark chocolate and Vincent Van Boeuf with feuilletine praline.
- Price: from €32 for 160 g
- Where to buy Available in boutiques
- Edwart Chocolatier
Homemade eggs from La Maison du Chocolat in Paris
Nicolas Cloiseau of La Maison du Chocolat invites gourmets to enjoy a chocolate egg, rabbit or crocodile. Textured, faceted chocolate moldings, filled with dark and milk chocolate dry fritures, imagined with animal sculptor Jacques Owczarek.
- Price: from €28 per 110 g piece
- Where to buy Available in stores and online
- La Maison du Chocolat
Le Caboussin by Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse in Paris
Available in 75% blended dark chocolate or 45% Madagascar milk chocolate, this creation imagined by the teams of chef chocolatier Francis-Gaigneux and designed by Pierre Tachon takes up the emblematic lines of the cabosse that encloses the cocoa beans. Half pod, half chick, you'll find praline, coconut, Sicilian almonds and Piedmont hazelnuts in its heart.
- Price: from €5 per 25 g piece
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Alain Ducasse Chocolate
Pascaline the dreamy owl from Jean-Paul Hévin in Paris
for Easter, Jean-Paul Hévin is making cocoa lovers dream with its Chouette rêveuse in dark cocoa Grand Cru du Cameroun 70% sustainable cocoa chocolate, topped with dry fritures and filled with dark and milk chocolate.
- Price: €45 per 165 g
- Where to buy Available online and in stores
- Jean-Paul Hévin
Dans le mille" egg, by Pierre Hermé in Paris
An egg with the look of a dartboard, to amuse even the most playful. Developed in Pierre Hermé's workshops, this egg is available in milk chocolate or blond chocolate caramelized with fleur de sel.
- Price: €39 per 250 g
- Where to buy Available online and in stores
- www.pierreherme.com
Maïwenn La Poule and Maël Le Lapin by Maison Le Roux, Quiberon
Two chocolate animals with a pop appeal: Maïwenn la Poule and Maël le Lapin, designed by Meilleur Ouvrier de France glacier 2004, David Wesmaël. Dressed in a colorful veil, these moldings with floral and velvety cocoa notes are topped with generous fritures, and accompanied by three pink pebbles, in white chocolate delicately tinted with beet plant extract.
- Price: €30 per 160 g
- Where to buy Available in store only
- Henri Le Roux
Owls by Chocolaterie Hirsinger in Arbois
Although Chocolaterie Hirsinger doesn't have a special Easter collection, it does offer an assortment of moldings and fillings by the piece.Like theowls, available in dark or milk chocolate, in which you'll find chocolate eggs, fondant eggs and marzipan eggs.
- Price: from €17.50
- Where to buy Available in boutiques
- Hirsinger
Più Più le Poussin by Fabrice Gillotte in Dijon
Discover Più Più le poussin, a creation by Fabrice Gillotte, Meilleur ouvrier de France chocolatier-confiseur (1991). available in milk or dark chocolate, topped with an Easter assortment of fried and chocolate eggs.
- Price: from €25.5 per 160 g piece
- Where to buy Available in boutiques
- Fabrice Gillotte
Poupoule impériale by Maison Caffet, Troyes
Made by the Maison Caffet workshop, the elegant Poupoule impériale, with its pearly silhouette, reveals a heart of roasted Piedmont hazelnut praline, under a fine layer of milk chocolate.
- Price: €39 per 190 g
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Maison Caffet
Soft-boiled egg by Franck Kestener in Sarreguemines
Franck Kestener, MOF chocolatier and confectioner 2003, offers a soft-boiled egg filled with marshmallow and raspberry jelly. A regressive egg with a comforting heart, coated in 70% Madagascar dark chocolate.
- Price: €4 per 40 g
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Franck Kestener
Flowers Bleu egg by Capkao in Nantes
This flowery egg with its incredible blue color, designed by chocolatier Maxence in Capkao's Nantes workshops, features a dark chocolate shell and a buckwheat praline filling.
- Price: from €28 per 240 g piece
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Capkao
L'Ourson by Pascal Lac, Nice
The teddy bear, imagined by the Pascal Lac workshops, comes in three different chocolates: blond, milk 40% minimum or dark 70% minimum. inside the milk teddy bear: homemade plain frying, praline, gianduja and popcorn in dark, milk, white and blond chocolate. Dark moldings are filled with plain homemade friture, praline, gianduja and dark, milk and blond chocolate popcorn.
- Price: from €14.60 per 100g piece
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- Pâtisserie Lac
The original egg from Sébastien Papion in Orléans
An egg made in a nod to the 20 years of the Papion house, marked by mold imprints as imagined by Monsieur Papion. available in Dominican Republic dark chocolate, with spicy, fruity notes, or Madagascar milk chocolate, milky and tangy.
- Price: from €30 per 150 g piece
- Where to buy Available in stores and online
- Sébastien Papion
Les Poules folles by Christian Camprini in Valbonne
An eccentric creation, made in the workshops of Meilleur Ouvrier de France chocolatier et confiseur (2004) Christian Camprini. Les Poules Folles are hand-crafted from exceptional chocolate, selected for its aromatic purity.
- Price: NC
- Where to buy Available in boutiques
- Christian Camprini
Le Cacaotier, Hubert Masse, Rouen
A chocolate-covered Œuf Rocher, sprinkled with chopped and roasted almonds and garnished with praline eggs. Available in 66% intense dark chocolate for a full-bodied experience, or 41% milk chocolate for a melt-in-your-mouth gourmet experience.
- Price: €45.00 per 370 g piece
- Where to buy Available online or in store
- Le Cacaotier
Ballotin trésors pralinés by Weiss, Saint-Étienne
inside this ballotin, imagined in the Weiss artisan workshops and illustrated by Céline Dessine n'importe quoi, you'll find an assortment of dark, milk and white chocolate bunnies and bells, topped with a praline heart of Valencia almonds from Spain and Roman hazelnuts from Italy.
- Price: €29 per 260 g box
- Where? Available online or in store
- www.chocolat-weiss.fr
Easter whales from La Baleine à Cabosse, Marseille
Discover the Easter whales from La Baleine à Cabosse's bean-to-bar workshops: in 65% dark chocolate, filled with pistachio praline, hazelnut, almond and blueberry, or milk chocolate and Piedmont almond and hazelnut praline.
- Price: from €21 per 110 g piece
- Where to buy Available online and in store
- www.labaleineacabosse.com
The hanging nest by Quentin Bailly, Lille
Imagined by world pastry champion (2013) Quentin Bailly, the suspended bird's nest in 66% cocoa dark chocolate is nestled on a tray topped with almond, hazelnut and chestnut praline eggs.
- Price: €37.00 per 150 g piece
- Where to buy Available in stores
- Chocolaterie Quentin Bailly
