With Easter just a few weeks off, here’s our pick of the best vegan chocolate eggs and bunnies available this year.
Being vegan at Easter is a breeze these days, with plant-based chocolate eggs stocked in most supermarkets, and an even more impressive range available to order online. To help you get your vegan Easter sorted, hop into our guide to discover this year’s array of options.
Pana Organic
One bite of Pana chocolate, and there’s no looking back. This beloved Australian vegan brand (a repeat winner in the Nourish Vegan Awards, both for its chocolate and its ice cream) started with one store in Melbourne back in 2013, and is now widely stocked in mainstream and independent supermarkets.
This year for Easter, they’ve released a trio of 110g hollow chocolate eggs in Dark, Mylk, and Salted Caramel, made with their signature vegan, organic ingredients, free from refined sugar, and responsibly packaged in beautiful cardboard boxes – plastic free, and printed with vegetable inks.
NOMO
NOMO stands for ‘No Missing Out’, which is exactly the mission of this UK brand, dedicated to making ultra dreamy, creamy vegan and allergy-friendly chocolate that everyone can enjoy. This year, Aussies can choose from their 110g hollow eggs in Creamy Choc or Caramel and Sea Salt, or their adorable Cookie Dough Bunny bars made from plant-based milk chocolate, with a cookie dough flavour centre containing rice cereal and cocoa pieces. Find these goodies in select Woolies, Coles, Big W, Kmarts, and online via specialty retailers such as the Vegan Grocery Store.
Loving Earth
With their colourful eco-friendly packaging, you’d buy these beauties on appearance alone, but Loving Earth’s cashew mylk chocolate eggs filled with a soft caramel centre deliver on taste, too. Knowing that you’re buying from an all-vegan, organic certified brand with a commitment to sustainability makes these luscious treats all the sweeter. Find them in selected independent stockists and online.
Sweet William
Sweet William have been delivering the dairy-free milk chocolate goods since 1999 and, this Easter, they’re offering an indulgent 140g hollow egg, a 120g Easter bunny, and a 155g multipack of 12 solid bunnies, individually wrapped and ideal for Easter treasure hunts.
As well as being vegan, all Sweet William products are gluten free, nut free, low GI and free from anything artificial. Find them in Coles, Woolworths, Target, Big W and selected IGA stores, or online.
Medita
Medita’s glossy filled mini eggs make a beautiful Easter gift. Available in a variety of pack sizes from 4 to 25, these ganache-filled chocolate treats come in flavours such as salted caramel, Queensland passionfruit, crushed honeycomb, maple pecan praline and, possibly our favourite exotic chocolate flavour combo ever – raspberry lychee rose. Their Easter offering also includes a cute vegan honeycomb bunny made with 70% Zokoko chocolate and packed with nuggets of crunchy golden honeycomb.
As well as being completely vegan, Medita’s range is all gluten-free, soy-free and refined sugar-free, and crafted by a triple Michelin star trained pastry chef. These exquisite treats are available online for delivery Australia wide.
Cracking Good @ The Source
Bulk food stores are a fantastic way to avoid unwanted packaging – and Easter treats are no exception. AU and NZ bulk food chain The Source has a range of Cracking Good vegan Easter eggs made with a mylk chocolate shell and smooth crème filling in either hazelnut or raspberry varieties. These delectable treats are not only plant-based and unpackaged, but certified organic, responsibly traded, and gluten-free, too. The Cracking Good range also has a dark chocolate crème egg with all vegan ingredients, which is a slightly larger size and handmade with 66% cacao Belgian chocolate.
Organic Times
This Organic Aussie brand is widely stocked in independent and healthfood stores, and this year their Easter range includes a 130g vegan chocolate egg and cute Easter bunny in two sizes (70g or 200g). Crafted from decadent, smooth 55% dark chocolate, these treats are made in Australia using the finest organic and fair trade ingredients.
Koko Black
Koko Black have outdone themselves with their vegan range this Easter. Their luxe handcrafted vegan-friendly treats include dark chocolate Easter bunnies, hollow and filled eggs made from dark and mylk chocolate in a range of sizes, with sophisticated ingredients such as caramelised coconut, quinoa and goji berries, and a raspberry crunch powder filling with the texture of crushed corn flakes. Made with all-natural ingredients and no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, these treats are made with only the highest quality, sustainably sourced cocoa.
For those who live in or around Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth, you can find these goodies in store, with online delivery also available Australia-wide.
Lindt
The classic 60% dark choc hollow Easter bunny is back this year, in 100g or 200g sizes. These cuties come wrapped in gold foil complete with ribbon and bell, ideal for Easter egg hunts and gifts. Sourced from fully traced cocoa beans under the Lindt sustainability program, they are widely available in supermarkets and online.
Treat Dreams
Last but absolutely not least, is the show-stopping range of chocolate bunnies from Treat Dreams, the multi-award-winning Aussie vegan chocolate brand made with love and fairly traded cocoa in Sydney. If you can’t choose between the hazelnut praline ganache, milk choc, white choc, and cream ‘egg’ bunnies, there’s a gift box containing one of each – packed in an FSC certified cardboard box and printed with soy based inks. Find these delights in selected independent stores and online.
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For even more options, shop online for extended ranges via specialty retailers such as the Vegan Grocery Store, Vegan Perfection, Ethika Life, or Milo & Finch, who stock many of the brands listed above, plus a whole lot more.
