The best Easter candy is festive! It’s cute and sweet and should look beautiful placed atop plastic grass in a basket. Both kids and adults should be thrilled to bite into it. The wrapper should be a rainbow of pastels. The candy itself should be shaped like an egg or a rabbit or a carrot. It should be fun!
We tried pretty much every Easter candy on the market and have narrowed it down to a top ten. This is the best Easter candy you can buy, so make sure the Easter Bunny sees this list.
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- Starburst Jelly Beans
For our money, this is the best jelly bean. Starburst Jelly Beans explode with delicious flavor. There’s something thrilling about the perfectly fruity taste and chewy texture. You can really shovel a load of Starburst Jelly Beans in your mouth like an overstuffed handful of popcorn. We love that. They also have a berry flavor and a jumbo jelly bean that rocks, too. Starburst is really crushing the jelly bean game. —Danny Palumbo
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- Russell Stover Milk Chocolate Bunny
The Russell Stover Milk Chocolate Bunny is the chocolate bunny to rule them all. This is really a lesson in not judging a book by its cover. The packaging looks cheap and corny, but the chocolate is world class. It’s not too sweet and it’s very creamy. It even has some deep notes that almost reminded us of coffee. Don’t worry, though. This bunny isn’t too sophisticated for younger palates. Everyone will love this Russell Stover chocolate bunny. —Jordan Myrick
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- Tony’s Chocolonely Great Big Chocolate Eggs
These shot up in the rankings as soon as we saw the package. Tony’s Chocolonely eggs completely nail the Easter aesthetic. These chocolate eggs come in a cute little egg carton and they come in five flavors: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate caramel sea salt, milk chocolate hazelnut, and dark chocolate almond sea salt. Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate is some of the best chocolate you can buy. It’s creamy and melts in your mouth; it has an intense chocolate flavor without being overloaded with sugar. Also, the outside of each egg has a scaly, lizard egg-like texture that’s pretty fun. Quite frankly, it obliterates anything Hershey’s has ever done. Good brand ethics, too. —Danny Palumbo
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- Russell Stover Milk Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Egg
I’ve seen these chocolate-coated marshmallow eggs on the shelves at CVS my entire life. Let’s be real: They look bad. The packaging seems tacky and cheap. We thought this would taste as bad as they look, but we were wrong. Sorry, Russell Stover! This marshmallow is fresh and fluffy. It tastes like a homemade marshmallow you’d get at a local candy shop. We adored these and will be buying them moving forward. —Jordan Myrick
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- Fruity Pebbles Cereal ‘N Candy Eggs
People, this is why we love Easter candy. These Fruity Pebbles Cereal ‘N Candy Eggs combine delicious and crunchy Fruity Pebbles with creamy white chocolate. Cereal and candy already make a ton of sense, but this really wowed the Sporked team. Everybody who tasted one immediately became sweet on these eggs. Easter candy is all about entertaining, delicious, candy-fied inventions. These are creamy, sugary, crunchy, fruity little nuggets of pure joy. They’re a wacky, nostalgic mashup we love. Dare we say that we’ve got a new Easter classic on our hands? —Danny Palumbo
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- Kit Kat Lemon Crisp
Lemon Crisp is the best alternative Kit Kat flavor to ever exist. Kit Kat has released a number of bad flavors in recent months, so we were skeptical (miss us with that Raspberry Creme). But these are incredible. They’re so nice and citrusy. They’re light. These are the limoncello of Kit Kats. If you want a little sweet treat that won’t weigh you down after a hearty meal, grab one of these. They taste like pure spring. —Jordan Myrick
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- Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
Yeah, it’s just a Reese’s Cup, but the ratio of peanut butter to chocolate here is what makes Reese’s Eggs not only an excellent Easter candy but also the best overall Reese’s product. There’s more peanut butter filling and thus less middle-of-the-road chocolate. The whole thing is round and smooth, giving it an intensely creamy texture—not like the ridged, somewhat hard texture of a classic Reese’s Cup. The softness is really what sells these. The first bite of a Reese’s Egg melts in your mouth, making you do that thing where your eyes roll back into your head and you completely forget for a second that people can see you. The King of Reese’s products. —Danny Palumbo
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- Kinder Bueno Eggs
Kinder Bueno is already elite, but these little eggs are the perfect size and texture. We like these more than the regular Kinder bar (and we like the regular Kinder bar quite a lot). The ratios make the filling really stand out. These are light and have the perfect crispy crunch. We are truly devastated that they are limited edition, but, hey, maybe if we email them enough they’ll keep them forever. —Jordan Myrick
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- Cadbury Creme Egg
Cadbury Creme Eggs would be number one for us, but they can be a little divisive. Some people find the sugary goo off-putting, but not us. A Cadbury Creme Egg is delightfully extravagant, the whole act of eating one feels joyous and theatrical. Exposing the creamy center is an event, and tasting it is a blast of gooey sweetness directly to the dome. This is a dessert made for royalty. It’s just a perfect candy invention that surprises every year. Its mere existence vaulted Easter candy to new, fanciful heights. —Danny Palumbo
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- Cadbury Mini Eggs
“This is just Easter,” said Sporked editor-in-chief Justine Sterling. The boss is right. Cadbury’s iconically creamy, candied mini eggs are synonymous with springtime. The milk chocolate is just so damn delightful. It’s otherworldly in comparison to other chocolate. The way the sugary shell cracks in your mouth is crunchy perfection, and there’s something milkier about Cadbury Mini Eggs that makes them hard to put down. Simply put, they are decadence in a bag. That might have something to do with the ingredients, which feature different milk products than your standard Hershey’s bar. Cadbury uses milk, milk fat, dried skim milk, and dried milk whey to make their eggs, while a Hershey’s bar simply uses milk and milk fat. Also, Cadbury is a British company. Accept it: They just do chocolate better than us. Take notes, all you middling chocolate-peddling schlubs. Praise be to Cadbury Mini Eggs. —Danny Palumbo
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I would not want to live in a world where I had to choose between Cadbury Mini Eggs and Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs! No way, Jose! So I agree with your ranking! I am sucker for good, old-fashioned jelly beans from Brach’s, picking out the licorice ones for my Mom.
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Along with Cadbury, I would have put Lindt at the top as well.
Fruity Pebbles eggs are insanely good to me. I impulse grabbed a bag at check out and I know I’m going to be sad when they can’t be found anymore.
right? truly think they’re here to stick around
My ultimate easter treat is Number 2. You just cant beat a Cadbury creme egg!
I think this site is great and I love most of the content but an article that correctly states the eggs are the best Reese’s ratio AND then teaches me of a new Fruity Pebbles candy is the pinnacle of what I’m looking for here. Thanks!
thanks for the article Danny. Thanks for getting me excited for the spirit of easter, which is the spirit of candy, identical to the spirit of Halloween and Crismus. Is it weird if I buy easter candy for myself and eat it out of a walmart sack instead of an easter basket? I am a married grown man with no children to buy candy for. please advise. I think the article should have dealt with the controversial nature of cadbury eggs more directly. Although I enjoy the first bite of the regular cadbury eggs, even the miniature eggs can be too rich and too much after one or two, and I’m a hardcore chocolate boy. I know many people that see that Cadbury brand and take a hard pass, but maybe its just too British for my southern brethren. In conclusion, thanks for the article.
I totally agree!! Those are really insightful opinions, and you write really well. Mythical should contract with you as a freelance writer on your snack reviews.
I think it was would MUCH weirder if you bought an easter basket for yourself. Keep using that Walmart bag, pal!
Ahhh, I think the richness of Cadbury is its strength. The decadence of Cadbury is why it has won over the hearts of so many Americans and candy enthusiasts. If it wasn’t rich, it’d just be another Hershey’s Bar. Sure, it can be a little off-putting to some, but overall, no company has snatched the candy crown of Easter quite like Cadbury.
There are 2 “Best Chocolate Egg” awards, was it a tie?
aha. fixed it. Tony’s was supposed to be “best chocolate.” The quality and variety of that little egg carton is incredible.
Thanks for catching that
The Key lime pie M&Ms look amazing! Does anyone know where they sell them? And will they be around after Easter?
they’re REALLY divisive.
I see them at Target quite often. They might stay on the shelves for another week or so after Easter. But, always available on Amazon I believe.
Target, by the way, carries most of these things. They seem to be leaning into the Easter Candy Aisle magic hard this year.
Thank you! I love most things white chocolate, so I’m running over to Target as we speak!
Like Danny, I am also from Pittsburgh and I agree with his list 100%. Yinzers for life
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My absolutely favorite chocolate of all time is Iddy Biddy Bunnies from Russell Stover. They don’t taste quite like the regular kinds of RS, and they’re tiny, so you can let one melt on your tongue or toss a whole handful into your mouth for those of us (me) who don’t have the self control to eat one.
Agree!! They’re like even better versions of little milk chocolate chips. Now I’m craving them. You have good taste, Robin! 🙂
Gotta say my favorite part about Easter is Cadbury mini eggs! Waiting a whole year for them to be in stores again is way too long!!
DEFINITELY Starburst jelly beans for the best bean.
The Russel Stover caramel filled egg is by far the best.
Ohhh boy, you guys have GOTTA try the ferrero rocher eggs 😩 they’re available in the US, quite literally the best thing ever. Like little mini ferrero rochers with an even smoother inner filling than their ball shaped predecessors. Incredible!
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the sugary shell cracks and the chocolate better and it is good.
The Russell Stover Milk Chocolate Bunny is the chocolate bunny to rule them all. This is really a lesson in not judging a book by its cover. The packaging looks cheap and corny, but the chocolate is world class. It’s not too sweet and it’s very creamy. It even has some deep notes that almost reminded us of coffee. Don’t worry, though. This bunny isn’t too sophisticated for younger palates. Everyone will love this Russell Stover chocolate bunny. —Jordan Myrick . I like it because it is so sweet my favorite chocolate bunny
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