But there are traditional Mardi Gras recipes, too—including king cake. We explain exactly what king cake is, why people hide a toy baby in it and how to make it yourself for a festive treat.

King cake is oval-shaped and is typically topped with icing and sugar or sprinkles colored with the traditional Mardi Gras yellow, green, and purple. And inside each cake? A plastic baby hiding in ...

Traditional king cakes are more like sweet brioche than cake, often with cinnamon rolled ... This year, I'm trying a recipe I found in "Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times ...

Whether iced or sugared, traditional or stuffed with any number of fillings, king cakes have become ... Here's a recipe for a frosted, traditional cake from Haydel's Bakery.

the traditional French-style king cake made with puff pastry. Both shared the same recipe with me, which is an old recipe from The Times-Picayune. The traditional galette des rois, which the Lowes ...

This Easy King Cake Recipe takes only a few minutes to put ... We had each ordered New Orleans Traditional King Cakes from Goldbelly, which arrived on the same day. You can imagine how confused ...

A quick online search will turn up numerous takes on a traditional king cake recipe, but most involve the usual suspects (flour, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, yeast and butter), filling and ...

While Andrés does have a recipe for the cake ... When do you eat king cake? The traditional treat of New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations In the U.S., king cake is closely associated with Mardi ...

King Cake is a traditional pastry with roots in France, brought to New Orleans in the 19th century. Its origins trace back to celebrations of the Christian Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, marking the ...

Melissa Martin’s version of the king cake was inspired by the one her mother used, from a well-worn bread recipe she kept ... it with sanding sugars in the traditional Mardi Gras colors: gold ...