But what exactly is king cake anyway, and why is there a "baby" inside? King cake is everywhere in Louisiana during Mardi Gras season. The carnival season starts on Three Kings Day and culminates ...

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 ...

1 / 30King Cake Baby, Pierre and Pelicans Dance Team members helped create a NBA All-Star King Cake with Haydel's Bakery on Wednesday, February 1. 1 / 30King Cake Baby, Pierre and Pelicans Dance ...

That has many people slicing into king cake for the first time and wondering, “What’s the deal with that baby inside?” The baby celebrates Christianity and symbolizes the baby Jesus ...

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 ...

“Everyone hoped they didn’t get the baby, because it meant you had to get the next king cake, and we were always broke,” a New Orleans native named Bryan Wilson told me. “When I share a ...

A tradition is to eat King Cake (with a tiny plastic baby Jesus as a prize). So, what is King Cake? It is an oval or ring-shaped sweet yeast bread that sometimes contains a filling and is ...