Louisiana native Alison Adams is sharing her Cajun culture and traditions of Mardi Gras with an installation at the Beet ...

Food historian Liz Williams told the Associated Press last year that the roots of king cake culture date to Saturnalia ...

If you find the baby in your slice of king cake, congratulations! You get to be "king" or "queen" for the day. But you also ...

Beads are typically plastic but remain popular during Mardi Gras. Julie Anne's Bakery King Cakes with over 28 different flavors. A king cake is a pastry with a tiny figurine of a baby baked into ...

Interestingly, it wasn’t always a plastic baby inside… Food historian Liz ... pre-Lenten festivals that evolved into the modern Mardi Gras traditions. The evolution hasn’t stopped, according ...

Mardi Gras is fast approaching and if you celebrate ... Buried inside is a tiny, plastic baby figurine. If your slice has the baby, it is supposed to bring you good luck.

It's time to let the good times roll at a Mardi Gras celebration near you ... Each pastry comes with a bean or plastic baby. If you get the baby, you have to supply the next cake.

Mardi Gras is fast approaching and if you celebrate ... Buried inside is a tiny, plastic baby figurine. If your slice has the baby, it is supposed to bring you good luck. In 2021, Lee Kresovsky ...

Through Mardi Gras this season ... keeping it secured for the drive home. And a plastic baby is propped atop the cake.

With Mardi Gras right around the corner — March 4 ... hence the obligatory plastic baby placed inside each king cake. The dessert, traditionally made with cinnamon and sometimes cream cheese ...