Easter hampers are the best way to celebrate the bank holiday, so here are 19 to indulge in
Aside from the religious celebrations and traditions, Easter is typically associated with good food and sweet treats - so it makes sense that Easter hampers are top of everyone’s search history at the moment.
While luxury Easter eggs, beauty Easter eggs and, of course, all the chocolate gifts may be high up on your to-buy list before Good Friday swings around (which, by the way, is the 15th April this year), consider one of the best gift hampers as your one-stop shop if you’re looking to put the Easter bunny to shame.
Standard Easter food traditions include hot cross buns, simnel cake, roast lamb and so on, but an Easter hamper is a nice addition to either take with you to your family/friendship gathering or surprise your own guests with.
For a true confectionary-filled gift hamper that anyone with a sweet tooth will salivate over, turn to Cadbury’s Ultimate Easter Basket. Presented in a traditional, buckle-fastened picnic case, it includes everything from full-sized eggs to ones which are meant to be found on hunts.
If chocolate isn’t really your thing but you still want to indulge, Fortnum & Mason’s Easter Provisions Hamper is perfect for sharing with your loved ones one day over the weekend. What better way to celebrate the bank holiday than with a wicker basket packed with a spring selection of some of Fortnum’s favourite condiments, preserves, tea and savoury treats aplenty?
An Easter hamper needn’t cost you an arm and a leg either; there are loads available at a wide variety of price points. From luxurious Harrods Easter hampers that will make the holiday feel ultra special, to more affordable options from Hotel Chocolat, Marks & Spencer and more.
Shop our full round up of Easter hampers below.
Easter Hampers: Fortnum & Mason
The Easter Provisions Hamper, £175, Fortnum & Mason
What's inside: Waxed cheddar truckle, Fortnum's original cheese sables, all butter crackers, triple cream cheese, fig and fennel chutney, Easter tea loose leaf caddy, Fortnum's Pouilly-Fumé, six golden milk chocolate praline eggs, pistachio and clotted cream biscuits, pitted green olives in brine, Easter carrot sweets.
Alcohol Easter Hampers
Easter Beaulieu Hamper, £50, Marks & Spencer
What's inside: Easter Simnel Cake, Swiss Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs, 4 Luxury Fruited Hot Cross Buns, all butter Cornish cruncher biscuits, Collection Belgian Milk Chocolate Florentines, Cotes du Rhone La Grande Voute.
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Large Easter Hampers
Abundantly Easter Hamper, £150, Hotel Chocolat
What's inside: Extra-Thick Eggs, Soft Boiled Eggs, Eggs & Soldiers, City Bunnies, Bunny Selectors, Speckled Eggs, Elizapeck, Wooliam.
Easter Hampers: Selfridges
Easter Treats Hamper, £65, Selfridges
What's inside: Selfridges Selection pistachio and lemon white chocolate bar, traditional demerara shortbread, traditional English Breakfast 20 teabags, Easter chocolate brownie egglets, Easter Hot Cross Caramels.
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Easter Hampers: Cadbury
Ultimate Easter Basket, £75, Cadbury
What's inside: Creme Egg Gift Tin, Mini Eggs Gift Tin, Easter Egg Hunt Pack, Flake Gift Egg, Peter Rabbit with Soft Toy Egg, Dairy MIlk Luxury Egg, Bournville Medium Egg, Dairy Milk Buttons Egg, Mini Eggs Egg, Oreo Egg n Spoon, Spring Edition Bar, Mini Eggs Tube.
Easter Hampers: Harrods
Easter Celebration Hamper, £200, Harrods
What's inside: Cocoa Dusted Almonds, Raspberry White Chocolate Bar, Bunny Box Crunch Eggs, Easter Foiled Egg Stickpack, Passionfruit & Mango Truffles, Earl Grey tea, Knightsbridge Roast coffee, Hot Chocolate, Butter Biscuits Stem Ginger, Triple Chocolate Biscuits, Lemon Curd And Almond Biscuits, British Blackcurrant Jam, Sicilian Lemon Curd, Seville Marmalade Thin Cut, Parmesan And Poppy Seed Oat Biscuits, Simply Sea Salt Mixed Nuts, Gordal Pitted Olives, Cheddar Cheese Straws, Devonshire Ale & Apple Chutney.
Easter Hampers: Harvey Nichols
Eggs-Tremely Yummy Hamper, £110, Harvey Nichols
What's inside: Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore NV 750ml, Corbières Rosé 750ml, Shell We Have Another One? Four Dozen Chocolate Truffle Eggs, Get Cracking Mini Speckled Eggs, Really Chocolatey Biscuits, No.6 Rhubarb & Custard Fudge, Caramelised Cinnamon Almonds, 10 x Rose China Green Tea Teabags.
Easter Hampers: Cartwright & Butler
Cartwright & Butler Easter Box, £35, John Lewis
What's inside: Triple Chocolate Chunk Biscuits, Lemon Zest Shortbread Rounds, English Breakfast Teabags, Simmel Loaf Cake.
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Easter Hampers: Hampers.com
Easter Treats Gift Basket, £75, Hampers.com
What's inside: A choice of luxury miniature eggs and foiled chocolate eggs from Laura's Confectionary, along with bars of honeycomb and milk chocolate. There are plenty of sweets to enjoy too, topped off with the fruit meringue 'kisses' from Flower & White.
Chocolate Easter Hampers
All Things Easter Hamper, £70, Hotel Chocolat
What's inside: City Bunnies, City Bunny Selectors, Happy Easter H-Box, Chocolate Spread Sandwich, Salted Caramel Hard Boiled Egg.
Fortnum & Mason Easter Hampers
The Easter Breakfast Box, £100, Fortnum & Mason
What's inside: Smoked Salmon, Cacklebean Eggs, Fortnum’s Salted Butter, Seeded Sourdough, Breakfast Blend Tea, Colombia El Jordan Estate Ground Coffee, Lemon Curd, Shropshire Creamed Honey, Raspberry Preserve, Easter Hunt Foiled Chocolate Eggs.
Luxury Easter Hampers: Harrods
Easter Feast Hamper, £500, Harrods
What's inside: Champagne Nv New, Pinot Grigio 2019, Rioja Crianza 2018, Cocoa Dusted Almonds, Raspberry White Chocolate Bar, Bunny Box Crunch Eggs, Easter Foiled Egg Stickpack, Salted Caramel Easter Egg, Blonde Biscuit Easter Egg, Cocoa-dusted Almond Easter Egg, Milk Chocolate Easter Egg, White Chocolate Easter Egg, English Breakfast tea bags, Earl Grey tea, Knightsbridge Roast coffee, Hot Chocolate, Green Tea, All-butter Shortbread Biscuits, Shortbread Chocolate Chip Biscuits, Butter Biscuits Stem Ginger, Triple Chocolate Biscuits, Lemon Curd And Almond Biscuits, British Strawberry Preserve, Sicilian Lemon Curd, British Cotswold Honey, Seville Marmalade Thin Cut, Parmesan And Poppy Seed Oat Biscuits, Simply Sea Salt Mixed Nuts, Gordal Pitted Olives, Cheddar Cheese Straws, Devonshire Ale & Apple Chutney.
Easter Hampers: Hotel Chocolat
Happy Bunnies Hamper, £30, Hotel Chocolat
What's inside: 16 40% milk chocolate City Bunnies, a Soft Boiled Easter Egg, two Tiddly Pots perfect for sharing, and Oranges & Lemons Bunny Selectors.
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Easter Egg Hampers
Easter Sharing Basket, £30, Cadbury
What's inside: Dairy Milk Egg, Dairy Milk Buttons Egg, Easter Egg Hunt Pack, Mini Eggs Bag, Creme Egg 5 Pack, Dairy Milk Peter Rabbit, Maynards Bassett's Jelly Babies Chick Bag, Dairy Milk Spring Edition Bar.
Hotel Chocolat Easter Hampers
The Ultimate Easter Hamper, £100, Hotel Chocolat
What's inside: You Crack Me Up Extra-Thick Egg, Brownie Hard Boiled Egg, Easter H-Box, Elizapeck Hollow, Tiddly Pot, Chocolate Spread Sandwich, Eggs & Soldiers.
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Easter Hampers: Marks & Spencer
Easter Windsor Hamper, £100, Marks & Spencer
What's inside: Hen Party, Single Origin 42% Milk Chocolate Egg with Truffles, Swiss Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs, 4 Luxury Fruited Hot Cross Buns, salt and pepper spiced nuts, all butter Cornish cruncher biscuits, Prosecco, Cotes du Rhone La Grande Voute.
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Fortnum's Easter Hampers
The Happy Easter Basket, £75, Fortnum & Mason
What's inside: Gluten free Easter simnel biscuits, nougat chocolate Easter eggs, milk chocolate matchbox bunnies, raspberry and rhubarb conserve, Easter carrot sweets, white chocolate carrot cake filled bar.
Harrods Easter Basket Hamper
Easter Spring Hamper, £100, Harrods
What's inside: English Breakfast tea bags, Blend 49 Omni-grind coffee, Blood Orange Marmalade, British Strawberry Preserve, Sicilian Lemon Curd, Cocoa Dusted Almonds, Milk Chocolate Raspberries, All-butter Shortbread Biscuits.
Luxury Easter Hampers: Fortnum & Mason
The Easter Hamper, £125, Fortnum & Mason
What's inside: Happy bunnies milk chocolate Easter egg, white chocolate carrot cake filled bar, Easter carrot sweets, Easter tea loose leaf caddy, gluten free Easter simnel biscuits, nougat chocolate Easter eggs, pistachio and clotted cream biscuits, sweet orange, bergamot and lemon marmalade.
