Fastelavn Festival

Fastelavn - also known as Danish Halloween. Celebrated on the seventh week before Easter Sunday. Traditionally, there'd be an event where people beat on a wooden barrel full of candy that has an image of cat on it, superstitiously considered as a safeguard against evil. Kids will dressed up, knocking on their neighrbour's door and do the similar to Halloween 'trick or treating' stuff.

I do not know how the event evolves...don't see any 'mass celebration' around Denmark (for more info, check on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_Denmark) but I definitely enjoy the by-products of the festival -- Fastelavns Boller.

Sweet danish pastry filled with cream, enhanced with custard, fruit jam, chocolate, icing sugar etc, simply delicious. Here's how they look like:-

Absolutely delicious. Unfortunately only available around the festive time (typically a week before & a few days after). Definitely going to miss this one. Why can't they have these available all year round?? :s