Easter cake

Easter cakes are cakes, usually decorated with Easter motifs like the Easter bunny and Easter eggs, that are prepared especially for the Easter season.

Types

Babka
Main article: Babka
Easter babaka cake

Easter babka (baba wielkanocna) is a yeast cake that is part of Poland's Easter traditions.[1] Made with raisins, and other dried and candied fruits, the cake is soaked in rum syrup before it's served.[2]

Bunny cakes
A decorated Easter bunny cake

Bunny cakes are Easter bunny shaped cakes, usually decorated with shredded coconut. They can be made with a special pan mold, but it's not necessary to use one.[3]

Easter egg nest cake
An Easter egg nest cake

Easter egg nest cake is a chocolate flourless cake filled with chocolate cream and decorated with small candy-coated Easter eggs.[4] Another version of this cake, made with regular chocolate cake, involves decorating the cake with chocolate "twigs" arranged to create a nest appearance with candy-coated Easter eggs placed in the center of the cake.[5]

Kulich
A plate of frosted kulich cakes

In Russia kulich is baked on Holy Thursday. Holy Saturday is strictly a fast day; nothing is eaten and there is a church service at midnight and Easter Mass at dawn. The kulich is blessed and it is taken home and eaten with paskha and other foods for a big breakfast with the family.[6]

Lamala

Lamala is an Alsatian paschal lamb cake that is a traditional Easter cake of the Alsace region of France. It is made using a special mold.[7]

Mazurek
Main article: Mazurek (cake)
Egg-shaped mazurek cake

Mazurek is a Polish easter cake made with short pastry with butter cake "glued" together with a layer of marmalade.[8]

Literary mentions

Anton Chekov's The Cossack is a story about a newly married couple and a blessed loaf Easter cake.

See also

References
  1. Sohn, Mark F. Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture and Recipes. University Press of Kentucky.
  2. "Polish Babka".
  3. "How to Make the Cutest Easter Bunny Cake Ever".
  4. "Easter egg nest cake".
  5. "Easter Nest Torte".
  6. The Britannica Guide to Russia.
  7. "Lamala or Easter sheep".
  8. Konarzewska, Małgorzata (2011). "3.14. Mazurki". Technologia gastronomiczna z towaroznawstwem: podręcznik do nauki zawodu kucharz w technikum i szkole policealnej. Tom 2 (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. pp. 144–146.
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