It is New Orleans traditions that in fact hundreds of king cakes are eaten during Mardi Gras every single year.
is a kind of a cake that associated in many of countries with the festival at the end of the Christmas season, the festival is named Epiphany. In other place, the cake also associated with the pre-Lenten celebration that known as Mardi Gras party.
According to history, roughly 300 years ago, as a dry French bread- the King Cake is a type of the dough with sugar on the top and a bean inside is now a sweet, sugary and iced. The King Cake are made of a cinnamon-filled dough with the hollow circle shape. The cake is also glazed topping and sprinkled with colored sugar. In New Orleans, Hundreds of thousands of King Cake are eaten during the Carnival season.
The cake has its history, traditionally, a small plastic or porcelain baby is hidden inside the king cake. It is usually gold, purple or green to represent the colors of the holiday. Originally, the plastic baby was placed into the cake to symbolized baby Jesus. The Fava beans or the Vicia beans were also use to represent Jesus.
But nowadays, the baby symbolized the prosperity and luck to whoever finds the baby in her/his slice of the cake. In some tradition, someone who finds the baby will be crowned as the “king” or the “queen” for the evening. Which that person is also has responsible to buy the cake in the next celebration in new year, or throwing for the next Mardi Gras party.
Many bakers is now placing the plastic baby doll outside the cake and not hiding the cake from the customer anymore. Cause, if they place the doll inside the cake there’s a potential of customers choking or swallowing the baby, and the bakers want to stay clean they also don’t want to put their customer on danger. The king cake has many variation but today we’re going to make the king cake with the original recipe from the New Orleans. And here’s the recipe.
Now, the king cake is ready to be served. With this special and original recipe of the King Cake you can bring some Mardi Gras party euphoria to your home. And just enjoy every slice of the special king cake.
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