The Easter pound cakes of the largest bakery “Franzeluta” will go on sale one week before Easter, not yet before they are blessed by His Holiness Vladimir, the Metropolitan Bishop of Chisinau and all Moldova. The bakery’s director Victor Cojocaru has told IPN that a new Easter bread and cakes line with a capacity of 16 tonnes a day will be put into operation.

The director said the line that cost €1 million consists of a stove with two ten-meter tunnels, which is an absolute novelty. The Easter offer of “Franzeluta” includes new products, but also an improved recipe for last year’s cakes. The new types of cakes, by the Panettone formula, will contain chocolate and citrus fruit. There will also be launched rolls of pound cake dough with plums and walnut kernel.

The prices of cakes will vary between 27 to 62 lei, of rolls will be around 35 lei, while of Panettone cakes – between 62 and 104 lei.

The bakery “Bon Appetit” will also put on sale a new type of cakes. The Easter products go on sale on April 7.