Ophélie Artaud 18:00 pm, April 07, 2023

This year again, for Easter, pastry chefs and chocolatiers have surpassed themselves to offer ever more original creations. If the traditional eggs and chickens are still popular with young and old, in 2023, animals from the jungle, the forest or flowers - always chocolate - will also hide in the gardens.

Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. This year again, for Easter, the greatest chocolatiers and pastry chefs have surpassed themselves to offer more original creations than each other. Real sweet works that they presented on their social networks. To taste with your eyes before perhaps having the chance to find them during the egg hunt this Sunday.

Europe 1 offers you a small non-exhaustive list of the most beautiful creations for Easter... All in chocolate of course!

The hens - and their eggs - by Cédric Grolet

On the networks, he is one of the most followed chocolatiers and each of his creations is liked by thousands of subscribers. Known especially for his fruit-shaped trompe-l'oeil, Cédric Grolet is also a chocolate lover. This year, he modernized the famous chocolate hen, filled with old-fashioned praline and gianduja eggs.

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The small animals of Cyril Lignac

The very famous chef Cyril Lignac presents this year a range of Easter chocolates on the theme of animals. Always "gourmet and crunchy", these little animals with dark, dulcey or dark chocolate are also available in marshmallow version.

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The egg conducive to Pierre Hermé's journey

For these Easter holidays, pastry chef Pierre Hermé plunges us into the world of pre-Columbian civilization with his creations composed of glyphs, these engravings inspired by the Mayans. Something to enjoy while traveling.

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The world of Alain Ducasse's farm

This year, chef Alain Ducasse offers a collection of Easter chocolates on the theme of the farm. Little roosters, rabbits, pigs or lambs straight out of the imagination of the head chocolatier of the manufacture Quentin Francis Gaigneux.

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The foxes of Yann Couvreur

Animals are definitely popular this year. Pastry chef Yann Couvreur was inspired by foxes for his Easter 2023 collection. In addition to the small chocolates in the shape of canids, there is also a flagship piece: the egg filled with hazelnut praline.

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Nicolas Cloiseau's bouquet of chocolate flowers

Chef of the Maison du Chocolat, the Meilleur ouvrier de France Chocolatier Nicolas Cloiseau created this year a collection entitled "Easter Flowers". In addition to cute little rabbits, boxes of real eggs topped with hazelnut almond praline or chicken, the house offers this year an impressive artistic piece of 6 kilos and 75 centimeters in height: a "bouquet egg". This sculpture in the shape of a bouquet of flowers is entirely handmade. Enough to impress his guests this Sunday.

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