The egg, considered for centuries synonymous with fertility, hope and rebirth, for the first Christians in the world was taken as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
The exchange of chocolate Easter eggs is a widespread custom in European and American countries.
Its origin, in the Middle Ages, is related to Lent. For a long time, eggs were considered meat, and could not be eaten during those 46 days.
The hens and ducks continued to lay eggs, and to preserve them, they were cooked and eaten on Easter Sunday, the day the season ended. Lent. They were also decorated and given away, especially to children.
Soon the Catholic Church began to allow eggs to be eaten during these days, but this decision did not affect this tradition; and many ways to celebrate it arose, among them, with the creation of sweet eggs to give away.
When do you start giving away chocolate eggs for Easter?
Although there are references that countries like France and Germany had been making chocolate eggs since the beginning of the XNUMXth century, it is in the United Kingdom that the first one is made with molds to make holes and fill them.
And it is that after the Dutch chocolatier Conrad van Houten discovers how to extract almost all the cocoa butter from the ground cocoa beans, a by-product with which chocolate is finally molded, the British chocolate family Fry, creator of the first chocolate bar, makes her first chocolate egg for Easter as we know it today, in 1873.
Two years later, its first competitor, also a British chocolatier Cadbury, makes her first chocolate egg for Easter. These, which had a smooth surface, were made with dark chocolate and filled with sprinkles.
Since then, around this time, pastry shops have begun to decorate their showcases with colorful chocolate eggs.
