Children in Sicily enjoy traditional Easter sweets like sugar sheep, chocolate eggs, and doves. One favorite is cuddura, boiled eggs wrapped in sweet donut dough that is launched into the air and eaten after breaking. Semolina and wheat flour are used to make lavureddu, seedlings decorated on church altars on Holy Thursday that symbolize the resurrection of Christ.

2. ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO «G.L.RADICE»
SIRACUSA
Easter time is full of traditions
in every Italian region.
Here are some that come from
Sicily…

3. EASTER SWEETS
Sheep of sugar
Chocolate egg
Dove
Cuddura

4. Cooking workshop at school
On Easter Sundays,
after the sound of GLORIA,
children pull in air
crowns sweet «cuddure»
with boiled eggs.
The donuts are launched into the air, and only when
they are broken, you can eat them!
The sweets have different shapes: heart, basket, bag,
doll, cock, scarf, bell etc.

5. I N G R E D I E N T S

6. Form a mountain with semolina flour
and 00 flour

7. EASTER «’u lavureddu»
On the evening of Thursday, preceding Easter
Sunday, people visit Churches where you can
see the Lord’s Supper.
The altars are decorated with flowers and
«lavureddi», seedlings from the typical white
color obtained from germinated wheat or lentil
seeds in the dark.