la mona

EASTER celebration!

We call the Easter “Pasqua” and the Easter holidays “Setmana Santa”.

Setmana Santa is one of the most important festivals. All over Spain you can find

processions, beginning with Palm Sunday the week before Easter, followed by those

on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

EASTER CAKE : LA MONA

One of the Easter traditions just done in Catalonia is that on Easter Sunday the

Godfather gives his Godchild "La Mona”.

Most of the Easter cakes are decorated with coloured feathers, chocolate eggs and

fluffy chicks.Each year about 500,000 "monas"are eaten

in Catalonia.

Recipie of the MONA!INGREDIENTS:1. For the bread biscuit:- 4 eggs- 150 g of sugar- 150 g of flour- 20 g of almond flour- 5g of yeast- 2 beaten egg whites- 50 g of butter

2. For the filling:- 300 g of apricot jam (or your favourite jam)

3. Decorations:- 250 g of dark chocolate- 125 g of butter

STEPS:1. Beat the eggs and sugar together in a bowl.

2. Mix the flour and yeast together in a separate bowl.

3. Gradually pass the mixture of flour and yeast through a sieve and add it to the egg and sugar mixture.

4. Stir constantly while adding the almond flour.

5. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they form peaks.

6. Once they are half whisked, add blend in with the flour and egg mixture.

7. Turn the final mix out into greased and flour sprinkled mould.

8. Place in the oven 180 ºC for about 40-45 minutes.

9. Remove the sponge, allow to cool, cut in half and spread with the jam filling.

10. Finally, stir and melt the chocolate and butter together, cover the sponge with the chocolate and allow to cool.

11. Decorate the cake with eggs, feathers or chicks.

EASTER : In Vall de Palau School

We did a GIANT MONA! All our students and parents participated in doing this big

MONA!

This year the MONA is called:

The sweetest train! Can you guess?? How many wagons are in

the MONA? Check the pictures!

Each student created a wagon! Each class used different candy, sweets, cakes or cookies!

So… when the wagons were ready!We put all of them together and….

Look it’s a long and long train!

Parents and families also participated in the MONA!

After that, our students visited the train! It was a big surprise as they didn’t except such a long train! There were more than 450 wagons!

Parents and families also were invited to visit the GIANT MONA!

Easter Activities:LA MONA “Comenius Project” 2014