Easter special: CHOK A BLOK American Dreamcake Egg

The annual chocfest that is Easter has this year brought with it something rather special. It's a rather chunky-looking white chocolate egg from CHOK A BLOK. It's not a one-choc egg though - it's got a front of dark chocolate encasing various sweet treats, and goodies hidden away throughout the white chocolate shell.   

This egg definitely can't be broken by hand. Don't go thinking that a gentle tap from a spoon will coax it into releasing its treasures either. This beast needs a whack from a hefty spoon to crack it open. After that exertion of course, you deserve to gorge on chocolate. You've earned it.

I'm sure this shell could double up as a helmet of some kind.

The white chocolate is smooth and creamy without being sickly. It's when the chocolates collide though that this egg really comes into its own. I'm not usually a fan of combined chocolates as found in various gift box-type selections. I find that usually everything just blends into a generic sense of sweetness. This is different: the dark chocolate is a delicious bitter punctuation against the sweetness of the white. Then you start to discover pieces of biscuit, brownie and fudge. The crunch of the chocolate reveals a wealth of textures within and scoffing an Easter egg becomes a sensory delight.

The whole thing is a decadent symphony of gluttony. I laugh in the face of the packaging that tells me that 1 egg provides 6 portions. If Tesco are still flogging them today I suggest you grab one.

It's as if pieces of Humpty Dumpty were glued back together again using chocolate.