Creative packaging design: Easter eggs

Ballotoeuf nutpaste Easter eggHames Bronze range - luxury milk and white chocolate Easter egg - gin and tonicLoveCocoa Salted caramel milk chocolate Easter egg

Today, we begin a new series, ‘Creative packaging design’. Each time, we’ll concentrate on a different home, household or food product and showcase the best in the range when it comes to presentation. We’ll pay no heed to taste, quality, price or value for money – we’re judging the book by its cover, so to speak.

As we’re so close to the end of Lent, we’re going to start by shining our spotlight on Easter eggs. In doing or research, we realised what a saturated market it has become – but that a good thing for us consumers, we’re spoilt for choice; dark, milk, dark, vegan, fair trade, big small.

Some we’ve chosen on their dazzling good looks, others on their quirkiness. In some of the cases, it’s a double packaging affair; the outer, ‘non-food’ packaging as well as the design of the inner packaging… the egg itself.

I think the egg in the form of a boiled egg sandwich, complete with triangular take-away box, is so novel. I also think that the F&M drawer of 132 mini eggs is superb – like a Victorian collector’s specimen cabinet. The most attractive, in my opinion, is the exquisite, hand painted, papier-mâché Booja – Booja egg. What do you think? Do you have a favourite?

Chococo Giant milk chocolate honeycombe Easter eggCaramayo chocolate Easter sandwichVegan Iconic Easter egg

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Chococo Giant milk chocolate honeycombe Easter egg

Caramayo chocolate Easter sandwich

Kakoa vegan Iconic Easter egg

Fortnum & Mason Ultimate praline ganache Easter egg selection boxLoveCocoa Salted caramel milk chocolate Easter eggBooja - Booja hazelnut crunch chocolates truffles in decorative Easter egg

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Fortnum & Mason Ultimate praline ganache Easter egg selection box

LoveCocoa Salted caramel milk chocolate Easter egg

Booja – Booja hazelnut crunch chocolates truffles in decorative Easter egg

The Great Egg hazelnut and sourdough ganache Easter eggMelt Chocolate vegan strawberry Easter eggBallotoeuf nutpaste Easter egg

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Selfridges The Great Egg hazelnut and sourdough ganache Easter egg

Melt Chocolate vegan strawberry Easter egg

Ballotoeuf nutpaste Easter egg

Hames Bronze range - luxury milk and white chocolate Easter egg - gin and tonicSolid Chocolate Colombian single origin dark chocolate eggChocoviar Stracciatella egg

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Hames Bronze range – luxury milk and white chocolate Easter egg – gin and tonic

Solid Chocolate Colombian single origin dark chocolate egg

Chocoviar Stracciatella egg

Etsy List: Easter egg hunt

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'Easter egg hunt' Etsy List curated by H is for Home

The days are getting longer, spring lambs are appearing in the fields near our house and bulbs are flowering in the garden – Easter is on the way!

Easter is all about birth and rebirth… the egg is the quintessential symbol of the time. Here’s our own little egg hunt – an internet hunt! We’ve done the searching so you can simply click & view.

Perhaps even multi-task a bit – one hand for the keyboard, one hand for chocolate!

Easter egg hunt
Curated by H is for Home