Generally individuals associate Easter in Spain by way of the sacred processions in the streets on the contrary, what about the Easter eggs? Permit me to distinguish you about the Catalan story!
In Barcelona, the tradition claims that Godparents carry out to give away an Easter egg to their godson or goddaughter. And in Catalonia we strong-willed to make this chocolate egg a tad extra ‘exotic’-we label it ‘LA MONA’!
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La mona is a cake with a figure completed of chocolate on top, normally a especially giant figure with coloured feathers all around. E.g., while I used to be a teen I got a big football made of chocolate or a exceedingly gigantic chicken with modest eggs around it!
The most well-known bakeries in Barcelona compete trying to do the biggest ‘mona’ of all and the most shocking one. Can you imagine a cake/mona that is in fact Shrek’s fort?
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The ‘monas’ have become so admired that even on the nationwide TV news they talk about the largest and more shocking ones. I recollect last year how they talked about a mona that was one metre tall - it was the football player Eto’o!
Do not let this Easter pass by without trying one of the scrumptious ‘Monas’! On the other hand, in other districts of Spain they have other little cakes that may be found