What do you do when you find the baby in the king cake?!
We always ask the person to go get another,how about you!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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If you find the doll baby in your piece of king cake, you have to go tell anyone you know to pass on good luckWww@FoodAQ@Com
It's not edible, so don't eat it (regardless of who tells you its ok)!. It means you have good luck for the new year - and more!.
The king cake (sometimes rendered as kingcake or kings' cake) is a type of cake associated with the festival of Epiphany in the Christmas season in a number of countries, and in other places with Mardi Gras and Carnival!. It is popular in Christmas season in France, Belgium and Switzerland (galette/gateau des Rois), Portugal (Bolo Rei), Spain (Roscón de Reyes and in Catalonia called tortell), Greece and Cyprus (vasilopita) and Bulgaria (banitsa)!. In the United States, which celebrates Carnival ranging from Pensacola, Florida to East Texas, centered on New Orleans it is associated instead with Mardi Gras season traditions!.
The "king cake" takes its name from the Biblical three kings!. Catholic tradition states that their journey to Bethlehem took twelve days (the Twelve Days of Christmas), and that they arrived to honor the Christ child on Epiphany!. The season for king cake 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!.
Related culinary traditions are the tortell of Catalonia, the gateau des Rois in Provence or the galette des Rois in the northern half of France, and the Greek and Cypriot vasilopita!. The galette des Rois is made with puff pastry and frangipane (while the gateau des Rois is made with brioche and candied fruits)!. A little bean was traditionally hidden in it, a custom taken from the Saturnalia in the Roman Empire: the one who stumbled upon the bean was called "king of the feast!." In the galette des Rois, since 1870 the beans have been replaced first by porcelain and, now by plastic figurines; while the gateau des Rois often contains both a bean and a figurine!.
Samuel Pepys (whose wife was French) recorded a party in London on Epiphany night, 6 January 1659/1660: "!.!.!.to my cosen Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr!. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr!. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr!. Stradwick was King!. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost!."[1]
The choosing of King and Queen from the pie, usually by the inclusion of a bean and a pea, was a traditional English Twelfth Night festivity (see there for other early English references)!.
In southern U!.S!.A!., 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!.
The king cake 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 similar to that used in brioche, also similar to the American cinnamon roll, 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!. Popular bakeries such as Gambino's, Haydel, and Randazzo, feature original recipes and types of king cakes!.
The traditional trinket in the cake is a bean, still seen in some European traditions but rare in U!.S!. king cakes!. It is echoed, however, in some krewes' use of a gilded bean trinket!.
In the US Gulf Coast since the 1950s, the most common trinket has been a small plastic baby!. Many people say this represents the baby Jesus, tied in to the connection with Epiphany!. Many people attach no particular religious significance to the cake or trinket!. The "baby in the king cake" was said to have become common after a New Orleans area bakery chain got a large shipment of such plastic baby dolls from Hong Kong very cheaply in the 1950s, and some people say there is little further significance to the baby, but earlier ceramic baby dolls as trinkets are documented in New Orleans back to the 1930s!. A trinket representing a king wearing a crown is the next most common design of trinket!. Trinkets in the form of other figures have also been seen historically, and starting in the 1990s again became more common in the more expensive "gourmet" varieties of king cake!. The common plastic baby of today is usually colored pink, brown, white or gold!. Due to the choking hazard posed by small trinkets, some bakeries opt to include the "plastic baby" separately from the pastry!. The plastic babies are most often found separately in cakes from stores not native to New Orleans such as Sav-A-Center, whereas local bakeries are more likely to sell cakes with babies already inside!. Usually when kingcakes are ordered to be shipped out of New Orleans the cake and trinket are packaged separately so that the plastic baby will not pose a choking threat to kingcake noviceWww@FoodAQ@Com
The king cake (sometimes rendered as kingcake or kings' cake) is a type of cake associated with the festival of Epiphany in the Christmas season in a number of countries, and in other places with Mardi Gras and Carnival!. It is popular in Christmas season in France, Belgium and Switzerland (galette/gateau des Rois), Portugal (Bolo Rei), Spain (Roscón de Reyes and in Catalonia called tortell), Greece and Cyprus (vasilopita) and Bulgaria (banitsa)!. In the United States, which celebrates Carnival ranging from Pensacola, Florida to East Texas, centered on New Orleans it is associated instead with Mardi Gras season traditions!.
The "king cake" takes its name from the Biblical three kings!. Catholic tradition states that their journey to Bethlehem took twelve days (the Twelve Days of Christmas), and that they arrived to honor the Christ child on Epiphany!. The season for king cake 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!.
Related culinary traditions are the tortell of Catalonia, the gateau des Rois in Provence or the galette des Rois in the northern half of France, and the Greek and Cypriot vasilopita!. The galette des Rois is made with puff pastry and frangipane (while the gateau des Rois is made with brioche and candied fruits)!. A little bean was traditionally hidden in it, a custom taken from the Saturnalia in the Roman Empire: the one who stumbled upon the bean was called "king of the feast!." In the galette des Rois, since 1870 the beans have been replaced first by porcelain and, now by plastic figurines; while the gateau des Rois often contains both a bean and a figurine!.
Samuel Pepys (whose wife was French) recorded a party in London on Epiphany night, 6 January 1659/1660: "!.!.!.to my cosen Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr!. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr!. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr!. Stradwick was King!. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost!."[1]
The choosing of King and Queen from the pie, usually by the inclusion of a bean and a pea, was a traditional English Twelfth Night festivity (see there for other early English references)!.
In southern U!.S!.A!., 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!.
The king cake 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 similar to that used in brioche, also similar to the American cinnamon roll, 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!. Popular bakeries such as Gambino's, Haydel, and Randazzo, feature original recipes and types of king cakes!.
The traditional trinket in the cake is a bean, still seen in some European traditions but rare in U!.S!. king cakes!. It is echoed, however, in some krewes' use of a gilded bean trinket!.
In the US Gulf Coast since the 1950s, the most common trinket has been a small plastic baby!. Many people say this represents the baby Jesus, tied in to the connection with Epiphany!. Many people attach no particular religious significance to the cake or trinket!. The "baby in the king cake" was said to have become common after a New Orleans area bakery chain got a large shipment of such plastic baby dolls from Hong Kong very cheaply in the 1950s, and some people say there is little further significance to the baby, but earlier ceramic baby dolls as trinkets are documented in New Orleans back to the 1930s!. A trinket representing a king wearing a crown is the next most common design of trinket!. Trinkets in the form of other figures have also been seen historically, and starting in the 1990s again became more common in the more expensive "gourmet" varieties of king cake!. The common plastic baby of today is usually colored pink, brown, white or gold!. Due to the choking hazard posed by small trinkets, some bakeries opt to include the "plastic baby" separately from the pastry!. The plastic babies are most often found separately in cakes from stores not native to New Orleans such as Sav-A-Center, whereas local bakeries are more likely to sell cakes with babies already inside!. Usually when kingcakes are ordered to be shipped out of New Orleans the cake and trinket are packaged separately so that the plastic baby will not pose a choking threat to kingcake noviceWww@FoodAQ@Com
If you find the baby in your piece of King Cake you will have good luck for the next year!.!.!. lol
King cakes aren't that popular here in the midwest, so asking them to go get another could take a couple days!.!.!. lolWww@FoodAQ@Com
King cakes aren't that popular here in the midwest, so asking them to go get another could take a couple days!.!.!. lolWww@FoodAQ@Com
if this is for french class, you get teh baby, and you make a cake and bring it back, with the baby in the cake!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Tell the person who found it they have to throw a party for everyone else!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Make a wish!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I tell it to GET IN MAH BELLY!Www@FoodAQ@Com
aw heck!.!.!. it's all eatableWww@FoodAQ@Com
whaaaat!?!!?!!?!!!?!!!?!!?!!?!?!!?!!?!!?!!?!!?!!?
a baby in a piece of cake!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
a baby in a piece of cake!?Www@FoodAQ@Com