If your local Trader Joe’s isn’t totally bombarded with people trying to get their hands on a small, pastel tote bag they plan to resell on eBay, it’s worth stopping in, because spring has done sprung. The aisles are packed with all sorts of Easter goodies—in fact, my store had a full Easter display. Helpful!
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“Vinz, didn’t we already see Trader Joe’s Easter offerings over on Sporked’s YouTube channel?” You did, but the team was only trying new Easter candy. What we have here is a more complete roundup of the chocolate eggs, festive cookies, and spring-y gummies that you’re gonna want in your basket this year.
Trader Joe’s Milk Chocolate Bunny Bar
A milk chocolate bunny with every square inch covered in with non-pareils, candy gems, specks of caramel, and a white chocolate drizzle. Enough sugar to last a lifetime (or at least until May)
Speckled Egg Milk Chocolate Bars
Twin bars with five candy-coated milk chocolate eggs in each bar. Basically, an Easterified Twix chocolate bar.
Italian Chocolate Eggs
At $10 a box, this is probably the priciest Easter candy that Trader Joe’s sells. You get a lot of variety in one box, though: milk chocolate shells filled with white chocolate and coffee filling, dark chocolate shells with dark chocolate filling, milk chocolate shells with milk chocolate filling, and milk chocolate shells with hazelnut filling. They’re really nice to look at, too.
Candy Coated Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds
Almonds covered with a bit of dark chocolate and a candy coating to keep your hands clean. Now you just need to figure out how to get that food coloring off of them from the egg dyeing!
Springle Jangle
A spring-themed, reskinned version of Trader Joe’s popular Jingle Jangle sweet snack mix. You get most of the same flavors with a bit of a brighter theme.
Sour Jelly Beans
Why have regular jelly beans when you could have SOUR jelly beans. These are small, colorful, and genuinely tart. If you’re packing a basket for someone with a less adventurous palate, they have regular jelly beans, too.
Milk Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears
If you can never choose between chocolate candy and fruity, chewy candy, hey look! You don’t have to! These little chocolate-coated gummy bears are GOOD, too.
Spring Gummies
These are a perennial fave. They come in bird, daisy, bumble bee, tulip, and butterfly shapes with bright spring colors and fruity flavors (pineapple, apple, and strawberry, to be exact).
Easter Joe-Joe’s
Though they may seem a bit too gaudy to be good, Sporked’s Gwynedd Stuart assures us they are actually worth your time.
Thoughts? Questions? Complete disagreement? Leave a comment!