Happy Bretzel Day!

 Today is Bretzelsonndeg, or Pretzel Sunday! Celebrated today (4th Sunday of Lent), it's a romantic tradition combined with amazing pastry. On Bretzelsonndeg, a guy can give one of these beautiful almond pretzels to a girl he likes. If the feelings are mutual, she will give him an egg on Easter Sunday. if she rejects him, he gets an empty basket. The pretzel shape is supposed to represent a couple arm in arm. 

BUT on leap year- the girl gives the pretzels and the tradition is reversed! 

Someone had mentioned the pretzels last week, and I saw it on my Instagram feeds. It was on my list to get this Sunday, and when I got off the bus to church, it was directly in front of a bakery with a longgggg line! After the service, as the line was shorter, I stood and got one. 

I had the option of the traditional almond or one looking more like a cheese danish, and I took the regular. After carefully carrying it 30 minutes of a bus ride later, we finally arrived home and dug in. 

The texture is very much like a danish, except way lighter. There is a slightly sweet glaze on the top, and crushed almonds as well (though many pictures have a lot of glaze and sliced almonds). While it was a bit pricier than I had hoped, I'm glad to have tried this delightful pastry today!