What Does The Mardi Gras King Cake Mean
What Does The Mardi Gras King Cake Mean. Even the colors of the icing (and royal colors of Mardi Gras) have a deeper meaning. Mardi Gras isn't subtle, and neither is this rainbow-colored confection.
After the cake is cut, whoever gets the fève wins a prize.
Often a King Cake has three colors, gold, green and purple, which are the colors often associated with Mardi Gras.
King Cake: is a festive cake made of Danish dough, cinnamon, glaze topping, colorful sprinkles, complete with a plastic baby figurine. Today in New Orleans, the King Cake is an oval-shaped braided cake similar to a coffee cake which has cinnamon within the braids and is decorated with icing and sugar the colors of gold (God's power), green (faith in Christ), and purple (Justice of God) - and contains a tiny plastic baby symbolic of the Baby Jesus usually baked within but sometimes placed within the cake. Find out what a king cake is—and why there's a baby hidden inside.