(ostensibly) first added the babies to the cake in the late 1940s, it wasn't a nod to Three Kings Day and infant Jesus; rather, it was a happy coincidence. The baker wanted to load his king cakes ...

The King Cakes, twisted into rings and covered ... Hidden inside the cake is a small plastic baby. If the baby is found in your slice of cake, you are then crowned king or queen for the day.

King cakes, those brightly colored seasonal ... Others say it means you’re expected to buy the next king cake! Interestingly, it wasn’t always a plastic baby inside… Food historian Liz ...

(Preorder full king cakes for $35 ... and you can sample mini versions of the traditional king cake, complete with a cute gold baby trinket, at Café NOMA in the New Orleans Museum of Art ...

At a king cake party, the cake still contains a traditional trinket—usually a small baby, which some say represents ... they inserted them into the cakes in place of the usual bean or small ...

Traditionally, the person who finds the baby is responsible for buying next year's King Cake.Heitzman Bakery will sell an estimated 2,500 King Cakes over the next couple of weeks, but as Osting ...