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Local Confectionery Shops and Kiosks: Traditional Maltese Easter Sweets - Figolli
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    It is customary for Maltese women (and some men :-) to make Figolli for Easter. If you visit Malta around this time of the year you will see them in colourful displays in shop windows.

    Don't be tempted to buy them from the first place you come across because you will be greatly disappointed. I usually make my own, but if I were to buy them I would go for the ones from Cafe Cordina (244 Republic Street, Valletta), Santa Lucia Confectionery (Old Railway Track, Attard) and Tivoli Confectionery (Manwel Magri Street, Hamrun).

    Figolli are almond pastries cut out to represent symbolic figures. The traditional shapes are men, women, fish and baskets. They are decorated with glace and royal icing and an Easter egg wrapped in colourful foil to finish off the decoration.


    What To Pay: EUR 6 to 8

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