This day of pastries is celebrated on the Monday before Ash Wednesday. This this the day when the Icelandic nation consumes copious amounts of cream-filled buns, made of choux pastry with toppings like chocolate, caramel glaze, and many other varieties as well like pastry buns, filled with cream and jam, and topped with chocolate icing. For bakeries, this is the busiest day of the year, bake buns by the tens of thousands and there are lines to form in front of every bakery. Instead of buying the buns filled, many choose to fill them themselves with cream and jam at home and top them with melted chocolate.
Children either get or make their own “bolluvöndur”, a wooden stick with paper decoration on one end, which they use to spank their parents and demand buns by shouting: “bolla, bolla, bolla”.
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