I don’t think there is a traditional Easter dessert in Denmark. We go big on Easter lunches, which are either (traditionally) similar to our Christmas’s lunch and involves rye bread, pickled herring and snaps or (slightly less traditional) some kind of lamb roast.
The traditional Easter lunch will ofthen end with cheese and crackers but not necessarily with a proper dessert.
Desserts? What are you talking about? There is no space left for that after 8 hours of eating open sandwiches (rye bread) with herring of different variations, liver paté, boiled eggs, tuna paté, sausages with remoulade or mustard, salmon on toasted sandwich bread, various cheese, tartlets with chicken and asparagus sauce, all served along with beer and schnapps…
Edit: Btw, you need to drink enough schnapps, during those 8 hours, to revive the herring, so you can feel it is swimming around in your stomach…
We don’t really have a traditional easter dessert. Instead we buy candy for nearly one billion SEK (nearly 91,5 million euro) where bulk confectionery is the most common type to buy.
Mämmi of course. Although, the traditional method requires you to start several days before Good Friday. Nowadays, most people just buy it ready-made with a “fast” recipe where sweetening is not done traditionally but by adding sugar syrup, so that the product has an intense sugar syrup taste.
The paska / kulych. Paska can come in two versions, one from cream cheese and another the baked thing with raisins or something inside. Kulych is only the baked thing.
Of course there are chocolate eggs, bunnies and so on, the kids get those, but it is not traditional. The traditional eggs are hard boiled and painted with vegetable or herbal juice, which can come out really colourful. In my family we did it with onion top pieces which made a red colour.
Portuguese guy here. In my family, we don’t really distinguish much the Christmas sweets from Easter ones. So, Easter sweets are basically a subset of the Christmas ones and include stuff like pão de ló (Portuguese sponge cake) or bolinhol (humid pão de ló with a sugar topping).
Torrijas. They are similar to “French Toast.” The preparation involves soaking slices of bread in milk, then dipping them in beaten eggs before frying. Once fried, they are sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
We don’t really do special desserts, unless you count the monthly special for a Mona pudding. The traditional sweet Easter food is a stol. It’s different from the stol we eat at Christmas. Sort of. It’s topped with almond shavings instead of powdered sugar and has candied fruit in it.
We don’t really have desserts, but we do have an easter breakfast. Something we eat most of the time with easter is a stol or an amandelstaaf. Of course we also eat eggs, nice breads with cheese and meat, jam and such. And orange juice.
That’s gonna be a kulich which roughly speaking is a big muffin with or without a filling like raisins or latest trendy stuff like ‘dubai chocolate’ and a sugary icing on top of it, they can be blessed by the church too but not always.
Folar. It’s a type of bread that can be either savoury or sweet, depending on the variant. I always considered it as more of a dessert due to Folar found in the Algarve. Over here it’s also not uncommon for giant Folar to be baked and consumed around Easter (in Olhão or Guia for example).
Pão de Ló is a type of sponge cake that’s also commonly associated with Easter.
Also, chocolate and/or sugar covered almonds are popular Easter treats.
Aside from Easter eggs, I really can’t think of any. We never really had any particular meal for Easter at home, so a special dessert wouldn’t be common either
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It’s a sweet bread basically. The classic version’s not my favourite, but I love the version with chocolate on the inside
Chocolate Easter eggs?
I don’t think there is a traditional Easter dessert in Denmark. We go big on Easter lunches, which are either (traditionally) similar to our Christmas’s lunch and involves rye bread, pickled herring and snaps or (slightly less traditional) some kind of lamb roast.
The traditional Easter lunch will ofthen end with cheese and crackers but not necessarily with a proper dessert.
In Sicily, the traditional one is the ‘Cassata Siciliana’.
Sicilian cassata is a very famous cake made of Pan di Spagna (sponge cake) filled with chocolate chips, ricotta cheese and covered with icing and candied fruit. https://www.giallozafferano.com/recipes/Sicilian-cassata.html
Most families in Palermo will eat this on Sunday, after lunch.
Desserts? What are you talking about? There is no space left for that after 8 hours of eating open sandwiches (rye bread) with herring of different variations, liver paté, boiled eggs, tuna paté, sausages with remoulade or mustard, salmon on toasted sandwich bread, various cheese, tartlets with chicken and asparagus sauce, all served along with beer and schnapps…
Edit: Btw, you need to drink enough schnapps, during those 8 hours, to revive the herring, so you can feel it is swimming around in your stomach…
I would say in Germany, Easter lamb (cake), carrot cake and yeast plait are quite common.
Kozunak. My girlfriend and I bake very tasty ones every year. Usually stuffed with only Turkish delight and walnuts or lemon zest and raisins.
Poland:
Plus a plethora of cheesecakes, short bread biscuits, buns and whatnot.
Cozonaci și pască! 🤤
Cozonac with walnuts recipe
Pască with orange zest and raisins recipe
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We don’t really have a traditional easter dessert. Instead we buy candy for nearly one billion SEK (nearly 91,5 million euro) where bulk confectionery is the most common type to buy.
Folar
https://www.pingodoce.pt/receitas/folar-de-ovos/
Wikipedia tells me that the recipe is different depending on the region of Portugal. The one above is what I eat in Lisbon.
Torrijas, the Spanish version of French toast.
Specifically associated with Easter:
Tsouréki – Easter sweet bread (similar to brioche. There’s the classic plain version, and some witt jam or chocolate.)
Koulourákia – Easter cookies Traditionally, they’re glazed with egg wash, but I love powdered-sugar glaze on these.
Melitínia – little cheese cakes These are regional to the Cyclades. They’re little cheesecakes.
Mämmi of course. Although, the traditional method requires you to start several days before Good Friday. Nowadays, most people just buy it ready-made with a “fast” recipe where sweetening is not done traditionally but by adding sugar syrup, so that the product has an intense sugar syrup taste.
The paska / kulych. Paska can come in two versions, one from cream cheese and another the baked thing with raisins or something inside. Kulych is only the baked thing.
Of course there are chocolate eggs, bunnies and so on, the kids get those, but it is not traditional. The traditional eggs are hard boiled and painted with vegetable or herbal juice, which can come out really colourful. In my family we did it with onion top pieces which made a red colour.
Portuguese guy here. In my family, we don’t really distinguish much the Christmas sweets from Easter ones. So, Easter sweets are basically a subset of the Christmas ones and include stuff like pão de ló (Portuguese sponge cake) or bolinhol (humid pão de ló with a sugar topping).
Hot cross buns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hotcrossbuns_397
Simnel cake
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/simnelcake_792
Less traditional but very popular, especially with children, Easter egg nests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eastereggnests_93841
Torrijas. They are similar to “French Toast.” The preparation involves soaking slices of bread in milk, then dipping them in beaten eggs before frying. Once fried, they are sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
We don’t really do special desserts, unless you count the monthly special for a Mona pudding. The traditional sweet Easter food is a stol. It’s different from the stol we eat at Christmas. Sort of. It’s topped with almond shavings instead of powdered sugar and has candied fruit in it.
Finland takes the victory for the most disgusting-looking Easter dessert. We eat mämmi, a rye pudding that literally looks like shit.😅
Mämmi is eaten cold, paired with sugar and milk/cream, or with vanilla sauce. It’s sweet but has strong taste of malt from the rye.
Mämmi, pasha and the best chocolate eggs
We don’t really have desserts, but we do have an easter breakfast. Something we eat most of the time with easter is a stol or an amandelstaaf. Of course we also eat eggs, nice breads with cheese and meat, jam and such. And orange juice.
When we lived in Germany, the neighbors sent their kids over on Easter morning with a special loaf of bread.
People decorate the outdoor trees with colorful eggs and it’s amazing.
That’s gonna be a kulich which roughly speaking is a big muffin with or without a filling like raisins or latest trendy stuff like ‘dubai chocolate’ and a sugary icing on top of it, they can be blessed by the church too but not always.
Chocolate shaped like eggs, chickens and bunnies. Also not a dessert but painted eggs get sold too, or you paint them yourself
We don’t have a true nation wide traditional Easter dessert.
Colomba pasquale is a sort of national dessert for easter, but it’s a cake that has been launched for a century or so.
Most regions will have their own traditional easter dessert.
My mother’s family is from Sicily, so Cassata, cannoli,cuddura cu l’ova and the easter lamb made with almonds.
In Naples it’s Pastiera
In Liguria, it’s Pandolce genovese, etc
Folar. It’s a type of bread that can be either savoury or sweet, depending on the variant. I always considered it as more of a dessert due to Folar found in the Algarve. Over here it’s also not uncommon for giant Folar to be baked and consumed around Easter (in Olhão or Guia for example).
Pão de Ló is a type of sponge cake that’s also commonly associated with Easter.
Also, chocolate and/or sugar covered almonds are popular Easter treats.
Aside from Easter eggs, I really can’t think of any. We never really had any particular meal for Easter at home, so a special dessert wouldn’t be common either
Hot Cross Buns – spicy (mixed spice) fruity bun type thing
i honestly didn’t know there are so many specifically Easter desserts, we just eat a ton of eggs and that’s about it.
Hot Cross Buns
Simnel Cake (a fruit and Marzipan cake traditionally eaten at this time of year)
Mini eggs from Cadbury’s