'Ethical' Easter egg taste test

Overall winner! Booja Booja, Large Champagne truffle Easter egg £19.99 for 150g or £8.99 for 35g Not a chocolate egg as such, but with a mark of 8.44/10 these beautifully presented champagne truffles from Booja Booja scored the most highly of all the products tasted, and the egg-shaped papier mache box is endlessly reusable. Our tasters said: "deliciously boozy and melts in the mouth", "whoosh, up the nose like a glass of Pommery" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk Triple winner! Divine 70% dark chocolate egg with dark chocolate covered Brazil nuts: 8.17/10 (1st out of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £5.00, 140g) Our tasters said: "stunning, rich, warm, grown-up" Milk chocolate egg with truffles: 7.25/10 (1st of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £5.00, 150g) Our tasters said: "super creamy", "yum yum" White chocolate Easter egg: 7.0/10 (1st of 3 white chocolate eggs, £3.00, 55g) Our tasters said: "very sweet but very delicious" Dubble milk chocolate egg: 6.33/10 (4th out of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £350, 110g) Our tasters said: "good quality kids' chocolate" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk Green & Black's Maya Gold thick shelled dark chocolate egg, 7.83/10 (2nd of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £4.99, 180g) Our tasters said: "gorgeous spicy flavour, not bitter", "nice and spicy" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk Waitrose Waitrose organic and fairtrade white chocolate egg: 5.5/10 (3rd of 3 white chocolate eggs, £12.99, 250g) Our tasters said: "sweet but not much else" Waitrose organic and fairtrade milk chocolate egg, 7.25/10 (2nd of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £12.99, 250g) Our tasters said: "nicest taste on first chew" Waitrose organic and fairtrade dark chocolate egg: 7.28/10 (3rd of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £12.99, 250g) Our tasters said: "bitter and rich" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk The Chocolate Alchemist Organic milk egg with fudge: 6.18/10 (5th place out of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £12.50, 350g) Our tasters said: "too sweet" Organic dark egg with ginger: 6.92/10 (4th place out of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £12.50, 350g) Our tasters said: "very chunky, ginger gives a brilliant kick" Organic Angus the cow egg, 6.0/10 (2nd place out of 3 white chocolate eggs, £6.50, 130g) Our tasters said: "huge nostalgia kick" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk Montezuma Milk egg with truffles: 6.67/10 (3rd out of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £16.99, 400g) Our tasters said: "sweet but cocoa-y too" Very dark free range Easter egg: 6.56/10 (6th out of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £6.67, 150g) Our tasters said: "not one you could eat in one sitting" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk The Co-operative Fairtrade milk Easter egg and truffles: 5.33/10 (6th out of 6 milk chocolate eggs, £6.00, 210g) Our tasters said: "smooth" Fairtrade Belgian dark chocolate Easter egg with chocolate truffles: 6.86/10 (5th out of 7 dark chocolate eggs, £6.00, 210g) Our tasters said: "OK, but not really bitter enough" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk Rococo Hand painted Japanese bird Easter egg with chocolates: 6.3/10 (7th out of 7 dark chocolate eggs, but undoubtedly the most beautiful to look at - £28.50, 200g) Our tasters said: "looks amazing", "nice enough but doesn't really justify the price tag" Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian Photograph: Frank Baron/guardian.co.uk