The Easter Bunny is hopping off with your bucks.
A typical Easter basket now costs $49.66 with the usual candy fixings and plastic eggs — up 34% from last year, according to CouponFollow, a digital coupon business.
Cadbury Creme Eggs saw the biggest spike of any items included in the company’s “Easter Basket Inflation Index,” up 57% to $5.49.
Taking a longer view, CouponFollow found the price of a complete basket up 71% compared to five years ago, with Cadbury’s super-sweet treats costing 120% more than they did in 2021.
The study conducted every two years tracked prices at Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons during the week before Easter, according to Clay Cary, senior trends analyst for CouponFollow.
“The increase in food prices versus a handful of years ago is staggering and continues to put significant pressure on consumer spending across all income levels,” Gordon Haskett retail analyst Chuck Grom told The Post on Friday.
Other Easter Basket goodies that saw price hikes included 3.5-oz. Lindt Gold Bunnies that cost $7.29 this week, compared to $5.49 at the same time last year.
A six-pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs jumped nearly 40%, to $5.99; a 14-oz. package of Starburst Jellybeans was up 46%, to $4.79; and a 10-pack of Peeps went up 21%, to $3.64, according to CouponFollow.
Meanwhile, CouponFollow said petroleum cost hikes helped the average price of a bag of 48 plastic eggs jump 52%, compared to 2021, to $3.
Part of the reason for candy price spikes is the soaring cost of sugar, which rose 50% over the past five years to $1.02 per pound, according to CouponFollow.
Overall, Easter candy is 73.5% more expensive this year than five years ago.
Chocolate Easter eggs have become both more expensive and shrunk in size over the past year, as The Post previously reported.
Chocolate prices have spiked due to difficulties sourcing cocoa, a big portion of which comes from West Africa where crops have been battered by too much rain, heat and crop disease — though conditions have improved recently.
It’s not just candy that will cost consumers over Easter.
Easter-related groceries — including ham, eggs and other kitchen staples like butter, milk, flour and sugar, along with Easter lilies – pushed the cost of Easter brunch up by 23.1% over the past five yeas to $37.36, according to CouponFollow.
