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The heavenly treat of New Orleans, king cakes pack flavor and Carnival history all in one delicious bite. Dive into Mardi Gras king cake tradition with New Orleans & Company.
2 lut 2024 · Why no king cake recipe is complete without a plastic baby and where to get the best king cakes in New Orleans and beyond.
7 lut 2023 · You may not be able to get to New Orleans in the time between Epiphany and Mardi Gras, but if you still want to celebrate, there’s a sweet tradition you can eat anywhere: king cake.
4 lut 2024 · France brought the king cake tradition to New Orleans in the 1870s. Since then, New Orleans' bakeries have created various samples of this historic treat, filled with cream cheese, cinnamon, chocolate, and fruit.
28 lut 2022 · In 2021, Brennan’s introduced its first-ever king cakes, in traditional, chocolate, and strawberry cream cheese flavors. Just a year later, the restaurant is baking nearly 600 cakes per day, delivering a taste of New Orleans—and a bit of European history—to the contiguous 48 states.
19 gru 2022 · King cakes remained traditional during Carnival for decades after, usually in the form of sweet, round, soft braids of cinnamon-swirled yeasted dough with tiny baby figurines inside, topped...
6 sty 2021 · King cake is one of New Orleans' local delicacies, an oval braided confection smothered with white icing and sugar sprinkles that salute the official colors of Mardi Gras: Green for faith, purple for justice, and gold for power. There's a trinket, usually a plastic baby, hidden inside each one.
