Are M&S’s new ‘Easter eggs of the year’ actually worth £18 each?
Marks & Spencer’s Dippy Egg Cookie Cup took the internet by storm last week, but already there’s a new product going viral.
The retailer has been adding to its Easter range little by little, and the latest addition has already garnered a lot of hype. So much so that M&S has even gone as far as to proclaim these two items as ‘THE Easter eggs of 2026’.
Now, that’s a pretty bold statement, considering we’re still a month out from Easter itself, but shoppers seem to agree, with reviews on TikTok hailing the new Collection Filled Shell Easter Eggs as ‘the best Easter eggs ever’, ‘unreal’, and ‘fabulous’.
Naturally, after hearing this, I had to get my hands on them to see what all the fuss is about. So, here’s everything you need to know about the new products, as well as my honest verdict…
What’s in M&S’s new filled Easter eggs?
There are two brand new items in the collection: Collection Pistachio Filled Shell Milk Chocolate Egg and Collection Salted Caramel Filled Shell Milk Chocolate Egg.
The former features a Belgian milk chocolate outer layer dusted with a glimmer of gold, and filled with a layer of pistachio nut paste and white chocolate, with chopped roasted pistachio nuts.
While the latter is a lusted decorated Belgian milk chocolate egg with a salted caramel layered shell with sea salt flakes.
Both cost £18 each and are available to buy in M&S stores nationwide now, as well as online at Ocado.
What does Metro’s specialist food writer make of them?
Readers might recall I was rather disappointed with M&S’s last viral item, the Dippy Egg Cookie Cup. It just didn’t live up to my expectations for it, so I was definitely bracing myself for a letdown with these Easter eggs.
But, honestly, I needn’t have worried. When it comes to chocolate, M&S knows exactly what it’s doing, as is evident from the success of its Big Daddy chocolate bars and its recent victory in Metro’s blind chocolate biscuit taste test.
And these two new items are no exception.
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First impressions are that these are HEFTY Easter eggs. They’re very heavy, which I took as a good sign, as it most likely meant they weren’t scrimping on the filling.
The egg comes already separated into two halves, but this didn’t actually make them any easier to break into.
I started with the salted caramel egg, and was hoping for an aesthetic shot of the filling oozing out of the chocolate, but my first attempt was a real fail. I only managed to break off a piece from the side, and was confused to find there was nothing in it.
All of the filling is in the bottom of the egg, and once you manage to crack into it, it’s incredibly messy, but I’d argue that’s simply par for the course.
The chocolate shell is rich and creamy and is very clearly a good quality chocolate, while the filling is a wonderful mix of savoury-sweet, with buttery, almost nutty notes. The amount of salt seems to vary as you eat it, so it’s not the most consistent flavour, but I quite enjoyed that, as it made the experience of eating it a little more varied and interesting.
If you’ve ever had one of the Cadbury Caramel Cake bars from the supermarket, I’d say this is the closest flavour comparison I can make. It’s like that, only fancier and with a sprinkle of sea salt.
As for the pistachio egg, I was also pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the taste, as pistachio isn’t always a flavour I gravitate towards.
The outer chocolate shell is the same as the other egg, only this time it’s filled with a generously thick layer of pistachio and white chocolate paste filling. It’s velvety smooth and oh so addictive, and the chopped pistachio pieces add a satisfying crunch to the mix.
Which of the new M&S Easter eggs are you most excited to try?
So are these actually THE Easter eggs of the year, as M&S claims? I’d definitely say they’re up there as contenders, but I haven’t tried enough to say for certain. I imagine they’ll be pretty hard to beat, though.
But it has to be said that at £18 they certainly aren’t cheap, and we are in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
Now, I’m never going to encourage anyone to go out and spend that sort of money, especially if they don’t have it. However, if you do happen to have a spare £18 and this is what you want to use it for, I don’t think you’d regret it, because they’re damn good.
My top tip? These are so insanely filling that you really don’t need to eat much before it gets a bit sickly. So it could be worth splitting the £18 with friends or family, so you get to try it without it costing too much. I can easily see one of these being enough for three or four people, as my husband and I struggled to finish even half of the egg between us.
Though if you do decide you want to keep the whole thing to yourself, I promise I won’t judge.
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