You can bet your bottom dollar, I will participate in Carnival season with King Cake! Oh yes, the delicious once a year 'bread' that lasts for the whole of Mardi Gras--which means bakeries will be producing lots and lots of King Cakes until Fat Tuesday eve, February 25, 2020.
Here is a video on how to make your own King Cake--but, I'll be visiting many local bakeries to pick one up for our enjoyment. For our January Spin-in, the person who receives the baby is asked to bring King Cake the next day--as we meet for five days--we have lots of King Cake!!
"Epiphany" or twelfth night is known to Christians--the word comes from Greek that means "To show" just as Jesus showed himself to the three wise men and to the world on this day.
- The king cake is a tradition brought to New Orleans from France in 1870.
- It’s an oval shaped cake that tastes like a cross between a cinnamon roll and a french pastry.
- It is decorated in the colors green, gold and purple. Green is meant to symbolize faith, gold is power and purple which represents justice.
- It is supposed to represent the crown of the three wise men who visited Jesus.
- A plastic baby is hidden in the cake to represent the baby Jesus. Whoever finds the baby in their cake, is named “king for the day” and is supposed to host the party the next year.
Maybe, you'll have King Cake at your festivities this year!
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