“A business.” this is how he describes pastry chef Lluís Pérez the process of making one Hundreds of Easter cakes that he and his team prepared these days to celebrate their anniversary. Easter week. Preparing the chocolate, shaping it, gluing its different parts, painting it… Each step takes time for the figure to reach the perfect hands of the little ones, who are then the main addressees of these sweet works of art.
As every year, when Easter arrives, bakeries tap into creativity and showcase the most classic of figurines and decorated chocolate eggs.
Matias MirallesPastry chef from Es Forn del Pla de na Tesa, created monas with Animal forms of Iaia Corema, as well as minor Demogorgons Inspired by the monsters from the Stranger Things series. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate and a little bit of white are the three types of these smurfs.
It’s almost time to celebrate Easter and monkey purchases have been going on for days. “A lot of people call to order,” says Miralles, who says she doesn’t refuse to make a different dessert if “inspiration” comes in. created last year thetamundiBased on the sculpture created by Marina Salazar for the staging of the song. oh mom He has received commissions by Rigoberta Bandini and from outside the island.
They also distribute their chicken-shaped monkeys in Lluís Pérez’s workshop. There are two models, the one they usually make every year, and the most abstract one that resembles a surrogate (in fact, they were actually decorated that way). The pastry chef says that this year the colors were inspired by the works of Joan Miró and they are all made of milk chocolate because it is what children love most. They have now produced about 200 of them in different sizes and he estimates they will make a hundred more.
Thinking that the smallest of the family would eat the most, he dyed them with natural dyes derived from other foods such as paprika or other foods such as spirulina, a type of algae.
In Forn Fund They prepared eggs, figurines, up to 30 varieties and Easter cookies in different sizes and decorations. He explains that Converse sneakers, heels, Paw Patrol, Baby Shark, PJ Masks, and Lego, among others, inspired monkeys. Neus Llull, who is in charge with his brother Pau. This year they made chocolate eggs with orchids for older customers and will receive a traditional mona cake on Easter day.