{"id":12380,"date":"2007-04-10T04:43:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T04:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/2007\/04\/10\/pasqua-easter-and-more-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T04:43:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T04:43:39","slug":"pasqua-easter-and-more-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2007\/04\/10\/pasqua-easter-and-more-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasqua. Easter and more Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Chocolate Italian Easter Eggs<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>As Easter approaches images of the Easter Bunny, pastel colored chicks and duckies, and the marvelous Easter egg in all its&nbsp;glory pop up. As a symbol of fertility and rebirth, the egg has long been associated with the Easter holiday and the Christian celebration of Christ&#8217;s resurrection. The egg is also linked to Easter because people gave up animal products including dairy during Lent, the forty days before Easter. In order not to let all the eggs go to waste, they would be hard boiled&nbsp;in order to keep. <\/div>\n<div>I am used to the American tradition of&nbsp;dying hard boiled eggs&nbsp;in many different colors and hiding them for an <span id=lw_1176179983_0 style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Easter egg hunt<\/span>. But in <span id=lw_1176179983_1 style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Italy<\/span> it is not the egg that is hidden. Instead surprises are hidden within delicately prepared chocolate Easter eggs.&nbsp;The eggs range in size from very tiny ones that fit in the hand to large ones you could wrap your arms around. Almost all the eggs contain a surprise inside unless the egg is just too small.&nbsp;The surprises can range from little toys for children that are generically placed to special ordered eggs with personalized gifts inside. Extravagant gifts like car keys and engagement rings have been placed in chocolate eggs! The eggs are then decorated with icing or sugar on the outside, or they are wrapped in beautiful colored foil paper. What a delicacy! Pictures of these Italian treats alone are enough to justify a holiday in Venice for the Easter weekend. The joy of biting into my hollow chocolate Easter bunny this year will be a bit dampened as I know there will not be any lovely surprises inside.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Link to a picture of the chocolate easter eggs<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.limoncello.co.uk\/images\/m266bp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span id=lw_1176179983_2><font color=#003399>http:\/\/www.limoncello.co.uk\/images\/m266bp.jpg<\/font><\/span><\/a>https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"C:\\Documents and Settings\\maria liberati\\My Documents\\blogs\\egg_pic.jpg\" align=baseline border=0>Technorati Tags : <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Pasqua.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener\">Pasqua.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Easter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener\">Easter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener\">and<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener\">more<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Chocolate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener\">Chocolate<\/a><!-- End Technorati Tags --><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.adgenta.com\/ads\/ads.dll\/click?client=primamedia1&#038;GUID=Pasqua%2E+Easter+and+more+Chocol+%2804%2F10%2F07+06%3A43%3A22%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 4px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" height=75 alt=\"Ads by AdGenta.com\" isMap src=\"http:\/\/ads.adgenta.com\/ads\/ads.dll\/view?client=primamedia1&amp;GUID=Pasqua%2E+Easter+and+more+Chocol+%2804%2F10%2F07+06%3A43%3A22%29&amp;WIDTH=300&amp;HEIGHT=75&amp;keywords=chocolate\" width=300 border=0><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=right><font FACE=\"VERDANA\" COLOR=\"#000080\" size=1><i>Powered By <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Qumana<\/a><\/i><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate Italian Easter Eggs &nbsp; As Easter approaches images of the Easter Bunny, pastel colored chicks and duckies, and the marvelous Easter egg in all its&nbsp;glory pop up. 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