Easter 2027 Food: What People Eat and Where to Celebrate

Easter is Sunday 28 March 2027. Easter is the Christian feast of the resurrection, the end of Lent, and one of the biggest food occasions of the spring. Tables carry lamb, eggs and sweet breads that differ from country to country.

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Also known as Easter Sunday, Pascha, Pasqua, Ostern, Pascua, Paques, Wielkanoc, Pasen.

What people eat for Easter

Hot cross buns

United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

Spiced buns with small pieces of raisin, marked with a cross on top and traditionally eaten on Good Friday in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.

Source: Hot cross bun.

Simnel cake

United Kingdom and Ireland

A light fruitcake with a layer of marzipan baked into the middle and another on top, finished with eleven marzipan balls for the apostles. It is eaten in Britain and Ireland around Easter.

Source: Simnel cake.

Colomba di Pasqua

Italy, from Milan

Italy's Easter dove, the Easter counterpart of panettone and pandoro, shaped like a dove and topped with pearl sugar and almonds before baking.

Source: Colomba di Pasqua.

Pastiera napoletana

Naples, Italy

A Neapolitan tart of cooked wheat, eggs and ricotta scented with orange flower water, usually eaten at Easter.

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Dish guide: Pastiera Napoletana

Tsoureki (lampropsomo)

Greece

A sweet holiday bread of flour, milk, butter, eggs and sugar, commonly seasoned with lemon and orange zest, mastic or mahleb. At Greek Easter the braided lampropsomo version has whole dyed eggs pressed into the dough.

Source: Tsoureki.