To fill the egg, place the ganache in the chocolate egg half and coarsely chop the 2 dark chocolate blocks on top of the ganache. Add the chilled white brigadeiro and crumble the paçoca on top.

A lot of Easter traditions — including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday — stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist ...

Thirty years later, in 1873, Fry’s developed the first chocolate Easter egg as a luxury treat, merging the two gift-giving traditions. Chocolate eggs went mainstream in the 1960s.