Find out what it means if you’re the one who discovers the king cake baby in your Mardi Gras slice! Fact checked by Emily Estep Mardi Gras (a.k.a., Fat Tuesday) falls each year on the Tuesday ...

Then, someone excitedly waved around a tiny plastic baby plucked from their slice. Even though I didn’t have any previous knowledge of King Cake or its history, I could tell there was something ...

Andrew confessed he had never eaten king cake, so in the spirit of the season, we brought one to the studio for a taste test. “There’s a little plastic baby that’s hidden in the cake,” I ...