With Easter just around the corner, our team decided to answer an important question – what’s the best Easter egg you can buy for under £5? Judged on taste, value, size and design, our experts tasted a bunch of popular budget Easter eggs to help you find out!
Best Budget Easter Eggs Under £5: Summary
- Terry’s Chocolate Orange Exploding Candy Easter Egg (297g) – Best overall
- Cadbury Creme Egg Easter Egg (255g) – Joint-best size (with Terry’s) & look/design
- Galaxy Milk Chocolate Extra Large Easter Egg (210g) – Misleading size but great, milky taste
1st Place: Terry’s Chocolate Orange Exploding Candy Easter Egg (297g)
Our team’s clear winner was the Terry’s Chocolate Orange Exploding Candy Easter Egg. A smooth, creamy hollow milk chocolate orange flavoured egg with a full-size exploding candy chocolate orange inside.
Scoring the highest on taste, value and joint-first on size, Terry came out on top.
- Taste: 8.3
- Value: 8
- Size: 8.5
- Look/Design: 6.6
- Cost: £4.50
- Overall Score: 7.85/10
Comments from our egg panel:
“Can never go wrong, it’s not Terry’s, it’s mine!”
2nd Place: Cadbury Creme Egg Easter Egg (255g)
Another fan favourite was the Cadbury Creme Egg Easter Egg. A large hollow Cadbury milk chocolate egg, complete with 2 full-size Creme Eggs.
Winning us over on look and design, and scoring a 6.6 out of 10 on taste, this one didn’t just look the part – it tasted good too!
- Taste: 6.6
- Value: 7
- Size: 8.5
- Look/Design: 7.8
- Cost: £4.50
- Overall Score: 7.47/10
Comments from our egg panel:
“Great design and always my go-to egg.”
3rd Place: Galaxy Milk Chocolate Extra Large Easter Egg (210g)
Last but not least, the Galaxy Milk Chocolate Extra Large Easter Egg takes third spot. A smooth, creamy hollow milk chocolate egg, paired with 2 full Galaxy chocolate bars (one normal & one caramel!).
This one was loved for its creamy, sweet taste, but the ‘extra large’ claim was a little generous!
- Taste: 7
- Value: 6.6
- Size: 6.5
- Look/Design: 7
- Cost: £4.50
- Overall Score: 6.7/10
Comments from our egg panel:
“Really nice, milky taste”
“False advertising – not extra large!”
The Final Verdict
While Terry came out on top, the real takeaway from this taste test was: you don’t need to spend more than £5 to get a good Easter egg.
Honourable Mentions (How the Rest of the Eggs Stacked Up)
- Cadbury Twirl Easter Egg (171g) – £4.50 (6.45/10)
- Celebrations Easter Egg (189g) – £4.50 (6.2/10)
- Cadbury Caramel Nibbles Egg (95g) – £1.65 (5.4/10)
- Cadbury Mini Egg Easter Egg (95g) – £1.40 (5.3/10)
- Yorkie Milk Chocolate Easter Egg (196g) – £2.32 (4.9/10)
