I want to make a King Cake and have a little Mardi Gras dinner for my family. I know it is really more of a yeast type of bread more than cake. Just wondered if anyone had made one before?
well, I don't have a recipe for you, and for that i'm sorry but i'm sure you can find one online.... I work in a grocery store, and we get just about everything already started... it tastes like a sweet dough, and it's rolled out thin, topped with cinnamon and then twisted and turned into a oval. Once it's baked, we dip them in white icing and sprinkle with yellow, green and purple sugar.. After that, it's traditional to hide a small baby toy in the cake, but for the fact that there are stupid people in the world 
, we are not allowed to put the babies under the bread, only on top. 
I hope that with a recipe found online, and this description you can make this treat. We always deliver fastnachts and king cakes to the radio station, and I usually end up on the air for my 30 seconds of fame per year.
Thank you so much for taking time to help me. I found a reciepe and since it is for my family, I think I will hide the baby. Do you put it in after you baked the cake, say from the bottom?
Thank you again for your help.
If the bread is rolled loosely, there may be pockets you can jam the baby in before you ice it... but if not, just stick him under the cake, maybe even cut a chunk of the cake out so it still sit's flat with the baby there....
Good luck and enjoy!
Ok the heading on this caught my eye.... being from the West coast I really know nothing about Mari Gras other then lots of jewery... please enlighten me on what ya'll are talking about? What kind of cake? Like balls? A baby? I'm assuming that's not the real thing
Do you mold them out of something?
Thanks for sharing!
I just found out when my father passed away that my Grandmother was a Creole Woman and that he was born in New Orleans. It also explains a lot about my life and it could explain my "draw" to New Orleans and LA (I am a "Calif Girl") and my wanting to learn more and more of my heritage.
One basic story, there are other interpretations, is that the King Cake represents the end of the 12 Days of Christmas, honoring the birth of Jesus. Hence the "baby" in the cake. It is the last day of feast before Lent. Some Traditions say who ever gets the baby is the Queen or King for the Day and some Krewes (groups that have parades in New Orleans) use getting the baby to designate who will be the King for their Mardi Gras Parade. The baby is just a tiny little plastic doll 1" or so, usually the kind that we use at baby showers. Some cultures use beans as the trinket. The colors of Mardi Gras represent: Purple=Justice, Green=Faith, Gold=Wealth.
Sorry for the thread hijack...this is just a new part of my life I am glad to share.
I am going to try to make a king cake for the first time this year. The best recipe I found was on Emeril.com.
http://www.emerils.com/recipes/by_name/king_cake.html
It's also got instructions like when to put in the baby, etc.
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