Easter Desserts
By Anna
@LadyDuck (458230)
Switzerland
April 18, 2019 9:25am CST
Christians around the world are ready to celebrate Easter. Most countries have a traditional dessert for that special holiday.
Those listed are some that I have tasted.
Russia and Ukraine - Pashka
A sweet cheese pudding, made with a blend of farmer's cheese, eggs, sugar, fruit and nuts.
Spain - La Mona de Pascua
It is the official cake of the Holy Week. Yellow cake filled with apricot jam and colorfully decorated.
Italy - Colomba di Pasqua (Easter Dove)
It is a sweet bread made with eggs, butter, flour, orange and lemon zests. The dough is fashioned into a dove shape and topped with pearl sugar and almonds.
Malta - Figolli cookies
These traditional Easter cookies are filled with Marzipan.
Do you have a special Easter dessert in your country, other than the chocolate eggs?
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
18 Apr 19
Good morning Anna.They all looks great.We are going to our neighbors house for Easter.
Not sure what we are having.This is the first time that she is putting out an Easter dinner.
Tradition will not be like ours.None of them are Italian or Greek
They just plain people and will tell you more on Sunday night or Monday.
I like the sweet bread.Wait I liked them all.lol
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@Marilynda1225 (79769)
• United States
18 Apr 19
I usually make a coconut cake in the shape of a lamb. It's a basic pound cake inside then frosted and covered in coconut. My aunt started this tradition when I was young and I got her cake mold when she passed away. The lamb cake is a traditional family dessert in our family.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
18 Apr 19
They all look delicous....
We don't have any traditional Easter desserts, but we usually eat some kind of cake for dessert. It could be one of our local cakes or a recipe from another country. On a local recipe site I saw a picture of a nice Easter cake. It was decorated with small chocolate eggs.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
18 Apr 19
@LadyDuck I like carrot cakes. My mother makes a very nice carrot cake, but she can't cook at the moment. I saw a cake with an Easter bunny picture. I would like to make that one, but I don't think that I will have time the next couple of days. I might save it and make it next year instead.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
19 Apr 19
@Porcospino I also like carrot cakes, I also make carrot muffins for the breakfast. I have only one carrot in the refrigerator, I buy more tomorrow morning at Aldi.
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@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Apr 19
I don't know if we have an official traditional dessert for Easter here 
. I almost feel like here it's all about the Easter candies - the array of chocolates, marshmallow Peeps, hard and soft candies - shaped in bunnies, chicks, eggs - but all that isn't really "dessert". I do have these little Easter egg spring pans . . . perhaps I should do something with them 
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. I almost feel like here it's all about the Easter candies - the array of chocolates, marshmallow Peeps, hard and soft candies - shaped in bunnies, chicks, eggs - but all that isn't really "dessert". I do have these little Easter egg spring pans . . . perhaps I should do something with them .4 people like this
@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Apr 19
@LadyDuck Today I saw the Lindt stuff . . . oh it was too tempting. We got a bunch of other chocolates so my daughter could fill plastic eggs for the family. Wow, did you buy up a lot of chocolates? I don't like to store chocolate in summer either . . . leaving it out, it will melt . . . and then to put them in the fridge, it doesn't seem to keep well (becomes lighter and a strange texture). I don't know if I will have time to bake 
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You surely should do something. This is the first year that I do not buy Lindt chocolate eggs. have enough chocolate bars at home for the next 4 months. I do not want to store chocolate in summer.@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
19 Apr 19
@much2say I try to avoid to buy too much chocolate, my husband does, every time there are sales he buys. The reason is because he loves chocolate mousse. Chocolate must never be stored in the refrigerator. I keep the bars in our "Atomic Shelter" (that I use as a pantry/cellar), that is always pretty cold even in summer. I made a chocolate mousse yesterday. May be I am going to make a chocolate cake for Easter.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
19 Apr 19
They all look so inviting Nothing special for Easter. We do that for Christmas.
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@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
18 Apr 19
Well we do not celebrate Easter here. But good to know all these sweet things.
What is the main Easter specialty in Switzerland?
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
18 Apr 19
@responsiveme They are very good, a semi soft dough and a delicious filling.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
18 Apr 19
I had forgot about this cute cake that I surely had more than one time in Monaco. I was searching the name of the best "Chocolatier" in Monte Carlo and I found that his son now is in Nice. I cannot believe his son is 37, he was a kid yesterday.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
10 Aug 19
I don't think we do unless it's something I don't know about. Those desserts look delicious. I have a very sweet tooth.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
10 Aug 19
@LadyDuck I'm very fond of cheesecake so if I could choose one it would be that!
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
10 Aug 19
@sprite1950 I often make a no bake cheesecake in summer, it's good, it's fresh it is not too sweet.
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@DeborahDiane (40056)
• Laguna Woods, California
7 Jun 19
@LadyDuck - Ooohh! Those deserts look wonderful! Thanks for sharing the pictures, as well as the descriptions of them. I can see I need to try some new foods next Easter!
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
8 Jun 19
@DeborahDiane This kind of cake/bread is not sold in bakeries, but in pastry shops even in Italy. I tried to make it once, but it takes too long and my oven is not good enough for this kind of pastries.
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@DeborahDiane (40056)
• Laguna Woods, California
8 Jun 19
@LadyDuck - It sounds very yummy! We have some French bakeries here in Southern California, but I do not know of any Italian bakeries. I will have to look for one!
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@Bensen32 (27519)
• United States
18 Apr 19
I don't celebrate Easter so not really sure what the dessert would be other than chocolate everything, at least that is what I see in the stores. Your four examples just reminded me that I really liked Pashka the one time I had it, that really brought back memories, thank you.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Apr 19
Great images and I have never tried the Mona de Pasqua as to yet.
I will try and get some though because I love Apricot taste.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Apr 19
@LadyDuck
Does not matter I have not been able to find any fresh apricots this year at all as to yet.
I suppose that they will be hard fo find good quality ones I mean.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
20 Apr 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I have a small apricot tree in the garden, last year we almost had no apricots at all.
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@ShyBear88 (59283)
• Sterling, Virginia
18 Apr 19
The US doesn’t have a traditional Easter treat but my husbands dad side makes a bunny cake for the kids each year. I’m not sure about this year as we have a child with a gluten allergy as
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@ShyBear88 (59283)
• Sterling, Virginia
19 Apr 19
@LadyDuck I know that, but we don’t make a big cake for hims we just pick up cup cakes as need for smaller parties. I make his own cake for his birthday with gluten free flour. I also are sure it’s not almonds flour as he is allergic to nuts as well.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
19 Apr 19
@ShyBear88 Poor kid, I know how dangerous it could be to eat nuts if you are allergic. I am allergic to peanuts.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
21 Oct 19
Some desert I just watched a lady making a luscious lemon meringue pie.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60355)
• Perth, Australia
29 Aug 22
@LadyDuck Oh my goodness! I want to reach out to that picture and just try them all! The art and decoration is just amazing!
I don't believe we have anything special. And if we do, I've never seen anything as special as that before!
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
31 Aug 22
@VivaLaDani13 - The days are getting shorter and the temperature cooler during the night. Summer is finally over here.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60355)
• Perth, Australia
30 Aug 22
@LadyDuck No worries. I try hard to be updated with favourite MyLotters. So way behind. 
But trying over time!
I have a sweet tooth too. 
But trying over time!
I have a sweet tooth too. 1 person likes this
