LONDON LIFE

FORTNUM & MASON

Is this the best place in London to source your Easter treats?

There's no need to embark on a hunt for Easter treats, because some of London's top chocolatiers, including Fortnum & Mason, are delivering them direct to your doorstep. The first celebratory chocolate eggs appeared in France and Germany (where the crocodile-skin finish effect was also developed) in the 19th century. John Cadbury jumped on the bandwagon in 1875; his eggs were crafted in dark chocolate until Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate came along in 1905 and revolutionised the market. Fortnum & Mason caused its own splash when, in 2018, the store won the chocolate arms race to become the first in the UK to sell ruby chocolate. Their ruby-chocolate egg). Montezuma's Heather Hen will arrive in 100% recyclable packaging, protecting a clutch of peanut-butter mini eggs (£10, ). Melt London's grown-up Salvador Dalí egg-the artist famously loved the symbolism of eggs-cracks to reveal a blossoming daffodil (£109; ). Artisan du Chocolat's marbled-chocolate balloon egg comes attached to edible, sweet, lace strings, to create the illusion of a hot-air balloon (£25; ).