What Does A Mardi Gras King Cake Look Like
What Does A Mardi Gras King Cake Look Like. Find out what a king cake is—and why there's a baby hidden inside. It can be made with the consistency of bread, or more along the lines of an actual cake and will have icing and colored sprinkles covering the outer layers.
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Modern King Cakes have a plastic baby hidden inside and the tradition is that the person who gets the baby in their slice is declared King for the day and is responsible for hosting next year's Mardi Gras party and providing the King Cake.
In France, the cake is called Galette des Rois or Gâteau des Rois and in Spain and Latin America, it's Roscón or Rosca de Reyes (King's Ring). Like the biblical story, the "search for the baby" adds excitement, as each person waits to see in whose slice of cake the baby will be discovered. Like with most of my seasonal/Holiday posts, if you want to make this cake, you have like, a day.