Dec 8th 2017

Fastelavn is a Denmark traditional carnival. The festival is quite similar with Halloween costume party, but the thing that makes it difference is the event are meant for kids and there are also some games are being held in the festival. Usually, Fastelavn is held on Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent in Christianity), which celebration is based on Roman Catholic traditional celebration for pre-Easter days (Catholic and some Christians celebration for 40 days of Jesus sacrifice before his death and resurrection by praying, fasting, and getting closer with God). Therefore, basically Fastelavn is a party before the fasting (Lent), 40 days of pre-Easter started in Ash Wednesday and end in the Easter Day on Sunday. Fastelavn is also considered by some people as transition period from winter to spring.

The climax of Fastelavn is marked by the crushing of a big barrel with a cat picture on it. Inside the barrel, there are many snacks for kids, such as candy. The kid who can crush the barrel is called Fastelavn king or Fastelavn queen. Meanwhile, all the kids who attend the festival will always get some snacks for them. The cat symbol on it is had been there since medieval era, inspired by a tale of a cat which was put in a barrel, and the barrel was hit until it crushed apart, but the cat somehow got away. After that, the cat was hunted and if it’s not caught, many people believed that bad luck will come to the city.

Fastelavn itself etymologically came from ‘fastelaghen’, a word from ancient Denmark era, which means pre-Easter period. In Denmark, the baked food which is related with Fastelavn is fastelavnsbolle, a round-shape bread with sugar, chocolate, and whip cream on it.

Besides fastelavnsbolle, there are another foods, one example is biscuit. Since Fastelavn is a day to enjoy any kind of foods before fasting for 40 days, no wonder many kind of foods are served including biscuit.

One of the popular biscuit to be enjoyed during the Fastelavn is Danisa butter cookies. Danisa Butter Cookies is a world-renowned butter cookies brand and has many different flavors with unique combination of tastes and textures. Danisa butter cookies receives such a high demand of Danish butter cookies in the world, because Danisa is made from the original butter cookies recipe that originated from Denmark. In its own production process, Danisa butter cookies always puts forward high quality ingredients such as its selection of the best butter and milk and the authenticity of the recipe used.

Danisa butter cookies has 5 flavor variations, which are Traditional Butter Cookies, Choco Cashew Butter Cookies, Currant Butter Cookies, Choco Filled Butter Cookies, and Pineapple Filled Butter Cookies.