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 ...

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

traditional Mardi Gras colors representing justice, faith and power. One other unusual surprise? There's often a plastic baby hidden inside. "If you're slicing your king cake and you get the baby ...

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

Beads are typically plastic but remain popular during Mardi Gras. A king cake is a pastry with a tiny figurine of a baby baked into the dough to be revealed in a slice or bite of the bread ...

Now, Williams said, Mardi Gras season means almost daily king cake consumption for some. “People will pick up a king cake and take it to work, and whoever gets the baby has to bring one the next ...

Until Mardi Gras, we're sampling far and wide around ... The king cake comes in a box with a féve. The little baby féve in the cake I bought was floating around in a matcha frosting puddle.

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Mardi Gras is all about excess, so it only makes sense that yes, you can have your king cake and drink it too. Or you can forgo the cake altogether and just order the King Cake Latte that you’ll ...