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King Cake History

The kingcake of the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition comes in a number of styles. The most simple, said to be the most traditional, is a ring of twisted bread topped with icing or sugar, usually coloured purple, green, and gold (the traditional Carnival colors) with food colouring. Some varieties have filling inside, the most common being cream cheese followed by praline.

A king cake (sometimes rendered as kingcake) is a type of cake associated with Carnival traditions. It is popular in Carnival season in the area of France (galette des rois), Portugal (Bolo Rei), Spain (Roscón de Reyes) and Catalonia (tortell), Greece (vasilopita), Bulgary (banitsa) and also in the United States, which celebrates Carnival ranging from Mobile, Alabama to East Texas, centered on New Orleans. The cakes have a small trinket (usually a small plastic baby) inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations.

The season for king cakes extends from the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Twelfth Night and Epiphany Day), through to Mardi Gras Day. Some organizations or groups of friends may have "king cake parties" every week through the Carnival season.

The tradition was brought to the area by colonists from France and Spain. King cake parties in New Orleans are documented back to the eighteenth century.