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By and large persons relate Easter in Spain by way of the spiritual processions in the streets however, what about the Easter eggs? Let me to distinguish you about the Catalan story!

In Barcelona, the tradition says that Godparents have to award an Easter egg to their godson or goddaughter. And in Catalonia we strong-willed to make up this chocolate egg a bit further ‘exotic’-we call it ‘LA MONA’!

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La mona is a cake with a figure complete of chocolate on top, ordinarily a enormously giant shape with coloured feathers all around. For instance, while I used to be a child I got a giant football made of chocolate or a exceedingly big chicken with petite eggs around it!

The most renowned bakeries in Barcelona compete trying to do the largest ‘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 fashionable that even on the national TV news they talk about the largest and more unforeseen ones. I recollect last year how they talked about a mona that was 1 metre tall - it was the football player Eto’o!

Never let this Easter pass by without trying one of the delicious ‘Monas’! Nonetheless, in other districts of Spain they have other tiny cakes that could be found

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