Easter Chocolate Eggs from Bettys

Without chocolate eggs, our Easter would never complete. Finding fine chocolate eggs was an easy task in our town, Harrogate, more precisely at our favorite bakery, Bettys!

I was an Easter bunny who brought the treats home this year: Champagne Truffle Eggs (Swiss dark, milk and white chocolate eggs, hand-decorated with royal icing spring flowers and with a rich ganache filling made with Moët & Chandon and Marc de Champagne), Hand-Painted Ganache Eggs (Swiss milk and dark chocolate eggs with a hand-painted finish, filled with luxurious Venexuelan chocolate ganache), and colored-white chocolate animal trio with a milk chocolate base. 

The chocolate eggs were beautiful and delicious! Bettys founder, Fritz  Bützer, who was born in Switzerland in 1885 and went through a series of misfortune events in his childhood, "trained as an assistant baker and then travelled around Switzerland and France learning to be a confectioner and chocolatier. Then, in 1907 he decided to seek his fortune in England," according to Bettys. "He eventually settled in the spa town of Harrogate by which time he’d changed his name to Frederick Belmont and styled himself as a ‘Chocolate Specialist’." While he had skills of baker as well as confectioner, being a chocolatier was his own selling point at the beginning of his success story. I still see his confidence in those little sumptuous eggs.