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King cake is a traditional Mardi Gras dessert. Cakes are baked with a toy baby inside—according to tradition, whoever finds it is blessed with good luck.
In Christian tradition the cake commemorates the witness of the "Three Kings". [9] [10] The tradition of the Mardi Gras king cake did not become established until the 20th-century, although the ubiquitous gold, purple and green sprinkles have been standard decoration since 1872. The cake is usually purchased at a shop.
The king cake is a sweet pastry now synonymous with Mardi Gras, but it's taken on various forms over its hundreds of years in existence. Stuffed with a surprise trinket hidden within, king cake's ...
Find out the history of one of Mardi Gras's long-standing traditions: the Mardi Gras King Cake.
King cake is a sweet cinnamon pastry shaped into a ring and decorated with icing and sanding sugar in the official Mardi Gras colors — green for faith, purple for justice and gold for power.
Randazzo King Cakes won best traditional king cake in the annual King Cake Snob competition, in 2017 [2] and 2019. [3] Their king cake has been named one of the best in New Orleans by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate food critic Ian McNulty and one of the best in the country by Food & Wine .