Here’s a sample of what are favorite chocolatiers are featuring this Easter. The candies are all natural (no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives) and handmade in small batches. All are beautifully packaged. Each company has other Easter choices as well.

Since they don’t contain preservatives, artisan chocolates should be eaten within 10 days of receipt. (That’s not a tall order!)

BURDICK CHOCOLATE:
SIGNATURE BUNNY BOX

This keepsake wooden box contains our favorite Burdick Easter candies, embellished with a gold wax seal and a beautiful ribbon. It includes:

 
The Signature Bunny Box is $26.00 at BurdickChocolate.com.
 
CHARLES CHOCOLATES:
EDIBLE CHOCOLATE BOX OF BONBONS

A signature item at Charles Chocolates, the Easter Edible Chocolate Box has a white chocolate lid with a smiling Easter bunny. The bottom of the box is dark chocolate. Yes, it’s 100% edible.

Inside the box are the chocolatier’s chocolate-enrobed caramels—Classic Fleur de Sel and Bittersweet Chocolate Fleur de Sel Caramels—with chick and bunny designs. The total weight of the box and contents is 17 ounces.

The Easter Collection Edible Chocolate Box is $65.00 at CharlesChocolates.com.

 
JOHN & KIRA’S:
CHOCOLATE COTTONTAILS

You’ll have to provide your own grass, because these adorable Chocolate Cottontails arrive in a charming keepsake box made of heavy pink paper. The label is removable so the box can be repurposed as you like.

Three of the Cottontails are filled with peanut butter praline, three with coconut ganache and three with salted honey caramel. The outer shell is white chocolate, with a dark chocolate shell underneath.

The box of 9 bonbons is $29.95 JohnandKiras.com.

Top: Signature Bunny Box from Burdick Chocolate. Center: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates. Bottom: Chocolate Cottontails from John&Kira’s.

Top: Recchiuti’s Easter Eggs are filled with burnt caramel and chocolate ganache. Center: Speckled Robin’s Eggs from Woodhouse Chocolate are filled with brown butter ganache. Bottom: Classic French pralines in a mahogany box from Z Chocolat.

RECCHIUTI CHOCOLATE:
CARAMEL & CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGS

This special box of chocolate Easter eggs divides the treasure between Recchiuti’s beloved Burnt Caramel in milk chocolate shells and his Force Noir Ganache (dark chocolate laced with vanilla) in dark chocolate shells.

The Combo Egg Box, 28 pieces (10.75 ounces of chocolate), is $45.00 at Recchiuti.com. Note that the eggs are halves (the backs are flat).
 
WOODHOUSE CHOCOLATE:
SPECKLED BROWN BUTTER GANACHE CHOCOLATE EGGS

These beautiful Speckled Robin’s Eggs are delicately hand colored in pastels and filled with Woodhouse’s signature Brown Butter Ganache. The box can be given as is, or added to an Easter basket.

A box of six pastel eggs is $15 at WoodhouseChocolate.com.

 
Z CHOCOLAT:
EASTER PRALINES

How about an elegant gift sent directly from France? Virtually no one will have received such a special box of chocolate.

Z Chocolat, known for its elegant packaging, offers its Easter pralines—miniature chicks, bunnies, and other critters—in stunning black boxes.

But even more stunning are the two fine wood boxes: the Easter Diamond box, handcrafted mahogany that’s embellished with an artistic egg motif and a gold metal latch; and the white basswood box.

No matter which box you choose, it’s filled with pralines and solid chocolates in dark, milk and white.

 
Prices were converted to dollars from Euros at a $1.13/euro conversion rate.

Head to ZChocolat.com.