Figolli

Figolli are traditional almond pastries baked for Easter. These consist of pastry figures filled with a ground almond mixture and covered with royal and glace icing. The traditional shapes are men, women, fish, lamb and baskets however nowadays you can also find heart shape, butterflies, bunnies and cars. The human shapes usually have paper faces stuck on to the icing. They're quite big about 8". Decoration consists of glace icing and royal icing and finished off with a chocolate egg stuck in the middle.

These are some of my Figolli made this year. I ended making 53 of them. This is surely a new record for me. I got creative and decorated them in a variety of patterns and colours. I also covered one of them with chocolate. Delicious too although I prefer glace icing. They surely get gobbled easily :)