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What is a king cake?


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Cake A king cake, aka Three Kings Cake, is a cake associated with the Christmas season and also the pre-Lenten celebration of Mardi Gras and is eaten world wide. The cake has a small trinket inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations. It can be baked, deep fried, topped with icing, or have jelly filling, but most all of them are brightly colored with purple, green, and gold sprinkles or icing.

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