In Barcelona, the tradition claims that Godparents have to offer an Easter egg to their godson or goddaughter. And in Catalonia we firm to formulate this chocolate egg a bit more ‘exotic’-we call it ‘LA MONA’!

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La mona is a cake with a shape made of chocolate on top, typically a awfully giant form with coloured feathers all around. For example, whilst I was a child I got a giant football made from chocolate or a dreadfully great chicken with minute eggs around it!

The most celebrated bakeries in Barcelona compete trying to do the largest ‘mona’ of all and the most stunning one. Can you visualize a cake/mona that is essentially Shrek’s castle?

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The ‘monas’ have become so well-liked that even on the countrywide TV news they talk about the leading and more unanticipated ones. I recollect last year how they talked about a mona that was 1 metre tall – it was the football player Eto’o!

Never permit this Easter pass by without trying one of the scrumptious ‘Monas’! On the other hand, in other regions of Spain they have other small cakes that can be found