{"id":5096,"date":"2024-09-06T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catalanfood.us\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:04:26","slug":"la-mona-de-pasqua","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/catalanfood.com\/middleast\/recipe\/la-mona-de-pasqua\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Mona Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subtitulo\">La Mona de Pasqua<\/span><br \/>\nTraditional Catalan Easter mones\u2014ring-shaped, made of bread dough, and decorated with hard boiled eggs\u2014were first prepared in farmhouse kitchens, then taken to the village oven to be baked. The village baker would also fashion his own versions, giving the mones different shapes according to the number of eggs used , including that of a bird, a chicken, or, if using twelve eggs, a boat. More modern mones started appearing in pastry shops around the second half of the nineteenth century, wiping out traditional bread monas in favor of cakes. Some took the shape of a bouquet with figurines on top, but at first, the figures were often monkeys, which only strengthened the meaning behind the sweet\u2019s name (\u201cmono\u201d means \u201cmonkey\u201d). The cake, however, appears to get its name from the Arabic term \u201cmona,\u201d referring to a gift or present, which was carried over into Latin as \u201cmonus,\u201d and then transformed into a pastry or coca that symbolized a present and entered Catalan households as a Christian custom. Nowadays, patisserie chefs often make the Easter cakes that grace Catalan tables, and there\u2019s no shortage of variety. The chocolate figures on top often represent popular characters of the moment, but classic versions with chocolate eggs and colored feathers are still available.<\/p>\n<h3>TRADITIONS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>MONES, GODPARENTS, AND GODCHILDREN<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to Catalan tradition, godparents give their godchild a mona with as many eggs as the child is old, from their second birthday until their twelfth, when they celebrate their First Communion.<br \/>\nOn Easter Sunday, godchildren dress up in their best Sunday clothes and go to their godparents\u2019 house to receive their cakes. In the past, when the children arrived, they would sing: \u201cDe\u0301u vos guard, padri\u0301; la Pasqua ha vingut; doneu-me la mona, i De\u0301u us do\u0300 salut\u201d (May God keep you, godparent; Easter has arrived; give me my mona, and God will give you a long life). Children without godparents still take part in the fun, as their aunts, uncles, or parents purchase them Easter cakes instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5153,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-5096","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Easter Mona Cake | Catalan Food Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catalanfood.com\/middleast\/recipe\/la-mona-de-pasqua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Easter Mona Cake | Catalan Food Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Traditional Catalan 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