Easter eggs now come in unicorn form because the world is a magical place
A simple, good ol' fashioned hollow chocolate egg just won't cut it anymore at Easter. No, if you really want to treat your loved ones, then you'll need to up your game. Big time.
Manchester-based chocolatier Slattery's has granted every unicorn lover's wish by creating a unicorn Easter egg, complete with magical horn and magical glitter. And, it's basically knocked every other Easter egg into a cocked hat.
The chocolatiers use a mould to create the egg in two halves. They then place rainbow chocolate drops inside the egg before sealing it. Once the egg is formed, the surface of the chocolate is rubbed to create a rougher finish so the edible pearlised spray sticks to the egg.
Oh, and the eggs happen to come in either white and milk chocolate.
Ears and horns are then handmade and painted gold and eyelashes are added. The chocolatiers then add a final flourish with a multicoloured royal icing mane and a generous dusting of unicorn sparkle dust.
Sadly, the eggs -- priced at £12.50 ($15.58) can't be shipped as they're too fragile -- they have to be collected in person from the Manchester store.
Better book ourselves a train ticket, I suppose!
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
