Delicious traditional sweets at Christmas time. #valletta #christmas #maltasweets #food

The figolla is a famous Maltese figurative shape of pastry, baked during the holy week for children to be eaten on Easter Sunday. It was made from flour pastry and decorated with an egg as a symbol of life for the family and friends. The eggs were tinted with bright peacock colours – blue, green, yellow, white, brown or reddish. The earliest recalled Maltese ‘figolli’ were made of different shapes – a horse, star, small figure of a moor or a female held an egg or more in thei