There is no Easter without. What was once celebrated with a simple bun with a hard-boiled egg, has become a shot of chocolate in a tube, with the figures reigning in the windows of pastry shops for a few days. This weekend sales will already increase. Although tradition sets Monday as the day to take them, chocolate holds up well and you have to be proactive to find the one most desired by your godchildren. There is no better place to buy them than the neighborhood pastry shops and chocolate shops, each one having on their radar, to support local commerce in Barcelona.
Then there are the most recognized, which win contests while maintaining tradition, such as La Colmena, in Ciutat Vella (plaça de l’Àngel, 12), which took first prize in this year’s contest with Jack Sparrow’s industrious parrot; or (Carrer Viladomat, 140), which came second with a large white chocolate egg from which a salamander inspired by Gaudí emerged. The third winner is made in , a pastry shop in Sabadell.
For four years now, you can also buy the science monkey in the Gremio bakeries in Barcelona, which this year is a white chocolate astronomer who contemplates the universe from a telescope. This is a project with the University of Barcelona to promote scientific concerns among the smallest and youngest. The added value of this monkey is that it includes a QR code to access informative content and discover the research field of astronomy, from the solar system to the life of stars or the evolution of the universe.
modernist chocolate
To celebrate the centenary year of the death of the most representative architect of modernism, the Barcelona Pastry Guild has organized an exhibition in the Sala Hipòstila, which can be seen until April 9. Ten master chocolatiers thus celebrate the event and give visibility to Barcelona’s designation as . They are authentic filigrees that deserve a visit and you can leave your vote. The winner will be pardoned from being eaten and will be exhibited at the Museu de la Xocolata.
The figures have no competitor in spectacularity, but sometimes you want to taste a good chocolate with a simple egg or animal shape. In this case, you still have to go to two, because they make their own chocolate from start to finish, starting with the purchase of cocoa, which they transform in their workshops until they obtain the paste with which they will mold bars and other products, such as those for Easter. It is in Gràcia (Carrer Santa Eugènia, 29) and this year it presents a good assortment of eggs of different sizes and chocolate animal figures that taste like pure cocoa because it does not contain any additives or vanilla. Also the new store (Carrer Rocafort, 9) will have a cute brioche with chocolate egg these days bean to bar.
Workshops for everyone
If your thing is to put your hands in the dough, at Kina they offer several workshops to discover authentic chocolate and make your own bars and other products, as well as discover movement bean to bar, which is gaining fans in the city, which also has establishments to discover it such as (Bailèn, 43). In it you will also find workshops designed for the little ones to decorate their Easter eggs, which include a visit to this temple for those with a sweet tooth, where they can discover the entire history of chocolate.
