You’ve got one candy holiday left, sweeties. Then it’s a dry spell until Halloween. No joke: All the good eating holidays are between October and April. No one gives you candy on Memorial Day, Independence Day or Labor Day. That’s just how it is.
So, go big for Easter. Cadbury eggs are nice, but they’re small and pedestrian. You want something big, you want an Anthony Thomas Easter Egg that’s as big as your fist.
First, it’s local. Although it was officially established in 1952, Anthony Thomas has a century-old history in Columbus, and more than a dozen candy shops chock full of chocolate and other sweets. The confectioner is probably best known for its buckeyes, fund-raiser candy bars (premium chocolate and still only $1 each), and chocolate-covered strawberries on Valentine’s Day.
As you might expect, there’s a whole world of Easter wonder in its shops too, including chocolate rabbits posed in a paralyzing number of positions. But, for personal tastes, it’s too hard to eat an anthropomorphic chocolate that stares at you. In all seriousness, chocolate with eyes is not chocolate for eating. Even if you bite the head off first.
The aforementioned chocolate eggs don’t have eyes, though. The peanut butter one delivers all the joy of of a buckeye in a package that’s appropriate for Easter. It comes in a cute holiday box, and the fragrance of milk chocolate fairly hits you in the face when you open it. A sturdy milk chocolate shell holds a dense peanut butter filling that’s smooth enough to make you forget about both Cadbury and Reese’s eggs.
Not a peanut butter person? There’s still an egg for you. They come in lots of flavors, including buttercream, chocolate-chocolate, and there’s a tempting fruit and nut one that will be personally acquired en masse some time before the bunny makes its rounds.