Cross your teacakes
The origin of the crossed bun is still a little vague. Most believe that Christians ate these buns on Good Friday – the cross symbolizing the crucifixion. However, some believe that crossed buns were eaten in ancient times by the Saxons to honour the goddess Eostre. [The name "Easter" is said to originate from Eostre, goddess of fertility, whose name was derived from the ancient word for "spring" - eastre]. Although food history has always intrigued me, I shan’t delve further into this particular one relating to religion and teeming with pagan symbolism, for fear of sounding too much like a character from a Dan Brown novel.
The Holy Week leading up to Good Friday usually meant that my home would be filled with scents of raisins, cinnamon and warm bread as my Mom rolled out tray after tray of Hot Cross Buns from the oven. She makes them the traditional way of course, perhaps with just a few tweaks to the recipe to suit our tastes. I only enjoy eating them at this time of year simply because we baked them only around this time of year. So this year, being away from home, and with a sudden craving for chocolate, I produced my version of something hot, crossed, and almost sacrilegious. [Some believe that chocolate is so 'heavenly' that if it's not the "food of the gods", it must be the devil's doing].
I can’t give you a proper recipe since I’m not the professional chef in this household. I simply mixed Pilsbury’s dark chocolate cake mix with water+vegetable oil+eggs=cupcakes. Topped with cooking chocolate melted with butter (and some leftover chocolates from Christmas). Finally, Milo (powdered chocolate) sprinkled over a makeshift X-stencil.
Santa’s really in the soup now
The Easter bunny had better not overstay its welcome too or we’ll have a similar post about chocolate covered fruit cake for Christmas.
HAPPY EASTER!
Fruit Cakes are quite addictive and my mom always bake them every month.:’”
Hi Taylor ..
You betcha ! I really love a well baked fruit cake (did that just sound weird?? .. anyways ) mom would use to soak the dried fruits with brandy like forever … the end result is truly phenomenal … thanks for checking in ! Happy Fooding !!!
Fruit Cakes are the specialty of my grandmother, she bakes lots of fruit cakes.’”-
Hi Elizabeth .. yeah when I was young, baking fruitcakes was a Christmas activity where my grandma, mum and the all the aunts would gather together to bake ! Most be something with grandmas and mothers baking fruitcakes .. lol thanks for reading !
my sister always bake fruit cakes coz we always love to much them at night-:~
this december, fruit cakes are becoming more common in our local supermarket. i love fruit cakes –: