Chocolate easter egg
According to common knowledge, Easter is a Christian festival to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This celebration coincides with the beginning of the spring season. It is a widely celebrated holiday among the Christian, Jewish and also Pagan cultures to celebrate the spring season which signifies new life through new blooms. Easter Eggs are also considered to be the symbols of fertility and propagation of new life and a fitting tribute to the Easter holiday and celebrations hail the sunlight of spring with great enthusiasm. The celebrations include decorating the eggs, baking Easter breads and making Easter Chocolate Eggs.
The Easter Chocolate Eggs tops all the gifts as they steal the hearts of everyone with their fancy decorations. People from all parts of the world decorate eggs in simple or intricate ways with pastel or bright colors to celebrate Easter, the spring festival. Every year some new idea emerges and the eggs get newer designs and ways to look good and delightful. Painting the eggs and dipping colors are the common practice to make Easter decorations. The kids and all family members enjoy the fun activities to make the Easter eggs as colorful and attractive as possible and make lovely baskets for gifting. The hand made egg baskets are loved and cherished as memorable Easter gifts. The Easter egg tree decoration is an activity that involves all the members of the family with new and innovative ideas to decorate. This decoration is proudly displayed during celebrations and parties last a week during the Easter holidays.
History
Surprisingly, the origin of Easter eggs is not Christianity but the much earlier pagan culture used to perform the rites in celebration of the spring season. The most ancient cultures used to celebrate the spring season as they believed it to be the time for new birth and to appease the goddess of fertility. The egg has been the symbol of new life in most cultures in the prehistoric era. The pagans celebrated the Ostara festival to celebrate the new birth and spring season. The Saxon spring festival Eostre named after the goddess of fertility was later adopted by the Christians and the name was changed to Easter in modern English. Around the 5th Century AD they brought the custom to Britain. The rituals involving eggs, chicks and rabbits mainly depicted celebration of new life. The Saxons who converted to Christianity started celebrating Easter as the day of resurrection of Christ. The event was believed to represent new life and the victory of life over death. They also believed it to be the triumph of forgiveness over punishment which was taught by Christ himself through his life and death. The date of resurrection coincided with the pagan festival of Eostre according to the spring Equinox. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon following the spring Equinox. The Egyptian astronomers have evolved a formula to set the date of Easter in 235 AD and it coincided with the Jewish festival called Passover which also happened at the same time.
All these suggest that almost all cultures celebrated the spring season and new life with merriment through holidays. All these cultures celebrate the festival with equal aplomb with eggs playing a predominant part of the celebrations. The decorated eggs and gifted in beautifully set Easter baskets is the most coveted Easter gift looked forward to by one and all. The Easter lights in egg shape and cakes and chocolates in the shape of eggs complete the cheerful holiday scene at every home.
Celebrations and Easter Eggs
The egg symbolized the fertility in pagan celebrations while the Christians celebrated the resurrection of Christ on Easter. The Christians believed that the re-birth of Christ happened after crucifixion as the rolling away of the stone blocking the Sepulchre and the egg symbolized the stone. In the European countries, the eggs were painted along with hens and ducks. This practice is still prevalent in some parts of the world. Hollow eggs were used to decorate the Easter egg tree, a tree without leaves. During the last years of the 17th century artificial eggs were manufactured for use as Easter gifts. The Ester eggs continued to get newer looks and forms during the 18th and 19th centuries. A French jeweler Car Faberge made a fabulous Easter egg encrusted with jewels for the Czar of Russia as an Easter Gift. Such sumptuously decorated Easter eggs are made even today for being gifted, but they would be very expensive and cost runs into millions.
The Chocolate Easter egg
Easter Chocolate Eggs made their appearance in the early 1800s and slowly spread to other European countries and even outside. The early chocolate eggs were made as solid eggs and later on hollow eggs followed suit. These hollow eggs were made by a very difficult process using the roasted Cacao beans, since chocolates of today were not available then. The chocolate making was discovered in the early years of the 19th century and mass production caught on everywhere and this was conveniently used to make different attractive Easter Chocolate eggs. The chocolate eggs have evolved to many dimensions and are gifted as they are loved by everyone of all ages. They make perfect Easter gifts bringing joy to both the giver and the receiver.Handmade Chocolate Easter Eggs
In the UK, the hand molded Easter eggs are the hot favorites as gifts. They are individually hand molded using dark chocolate, double milk chocolate and white chocolate with cocoa butter. These special chocolate eggs are packed in special Gift boxes which are decorated tastefully and attractively. They are delivered free 1st Class post in the United Kingdom with the personal Easter messages from the sender. The gifts can be ordered on the Internet with specific instructions for the delivery date. This handmade Easter chocolate is an ultimate Easter gift everybody likes to receive. They available from a vast selection to choose from to suit varied requirements. The Easter Chocolate Eggs can be bought securely online even for International delivery.
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