Karen Gros
King Cake is a southern Louisiana tradition that happens as soon as the countdown starts for Mardi Gras. The tradition was brought over to the New World from France in the late 1800’s. The season for King Cakes starts on the Twelfth Night following Christmas. This was the night that the three Wise Men arrived and brought gifts to baby Jesus.
The three traditional colors of King Cakes are purple which stands for justice, green for faith and yellow for power. King Cake is basically a big coffee cake but modern bakeries have made them so much better by adding cream cheese fillings, and fruit fillings and topped off with chopped pecans. A small baby is inserted into the cake from the bottom of the cake and the person who gets the baby in their slice of cake gets to be a “King” for the day. They also get to bring the next King Cake.
King Cakes are available through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), which falls the day before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins. Sweets are normally not served during Lent.
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I love the idea of it but that looks way too sweet for me.
I agree. I usually scrape all the sugar coating on top off.
The cake looks so delicious. I would love to taste it.
They are and come in an array of flavors!
King cake is quite good, we usually eat it during Christmas.
What is your favorite flavor? I love the cream cheese and also strawberry! Pralines and cream is also good!!
Thanks for this post. So I can learn something new.
You are very welcome and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Great idea for a challenge and very tasty.
Yes they are very tasty. The flavors are endless. Thank you for stopping by!
You’re welcome, Karen 😊
Sounds like a lovely tradition. I love every occasion to eat cake, hehe.
I’m with you on that one! I love cake and pastries.
Oh my gosh, that looks tasty, and super pretty!
They are very yummy and so many variations that you don’t get tired of them during Mardi Gras season.
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You know around here they don’t do much for Mardi Gras, which is so odd to me. Anyway, feel free to send that cake to me! 😉
It looks appetizing. I saw a video on how to prepare it.
That’s one thing about them, you can make them with just cinnamon or go all out! They are not hard at all to make!
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i remember having King Cake when we had a group event just before Mardi Gras.
(Fat Tuesday) it was so beautiful some of us wanted to keep it and not serve it!
Some of the bakeries really go all out with the decorations these days. We used to bring them to work and everyone looked forward to King Cake day!
it was so beautiful, but we cut it and ate it. Then our host said we were supposed to put something in the cake for the king. So we got another one!
And the person who gets to be King gets to buy the next cake. But, they get to pick out the flavor too, so it is a WIN!
sadly that crew was not together the next year and I don’t remember who was king after the second one. But it was a great cake!
What a decorative cake. You must have worked hard over it
I didn’t make that one, but they are easy to make! I sure could have eaten a piece of one this morning with coffee!
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