The day marks the official end of Mardi Gras, but is still a day of celebration ... If you find a baby in your king cake, don't worry, you're in luck. The name of cake comes from a story in ...

Carnival is here and that means the season for king cake is wide open. Through Mardi Gras this season, we’re sampling far and wide around the king cake realm. Here’s today’s cake ...

Typically, most bakeries stop selling the famous king cake at the end of Carnival. In 2024, the last day of Carnival will be Tuesday, Feb. 13. It's also known as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday.

On the same day, The Hop Ice Cream will release its limited-edition king cake ice cream with real bites of king cake. Mardi Gras made its way from medieval Europe to the U.S. in the early 1700s ...

king cakes and beads of green, purple and gold. Celebrating Mardi Gras? Here's how the locals do it. While Mardi Gras technically refers to the specific day of Shrove Tuesday, it is often ...

Marking the onset of Lent, a 40-day period characterized by solemnity, Mardi Gras is a time of unrestrained behavior. King cake is one of the main foods of Mardi Gras. The cake dates way back to ...

“Mardi Gras is an imported Catholic custom, a religious tradition celebrating the last day of an indulgent Carnival season, preceding 40 days of penitential Lent,” history doctoral candidate ...

Jennifer Powell, an Asheville Mardi Gras board member and Candler Krewe member, said the season and parade day will have something ... the Queen and King of Asheville Mardi Gras.

It's time to let the good times roll at a Mardi Gras celebration ... events like king cake tastings and 5K runs start in January and keep rolling until the big day. There's a pub crawl and ...