Here's today's cake: King cake commands compulsive attention ... I took a gentler route by cutting a slice into smaller pieces to engineer a bit of each element in one bite — cake, filling ...

Every king cake decision you make until then matters more ... and it gave a gratifying crunching sound as I cut in, a prelude to the light, airy texture within. The interior is sandy colored ...

The weeks are marked by parties, by parades, and by pastry, most specifically king cake: a wreath-shaped confection made with a yeasted dough—the kind you’d use for brioche or sticky buns ...

A tradition is to eat King Cake (with a tiny plastic baby Jesus as a prize). So, what is King Cake? It is an oval or ring-shaped sweet yeast bread that sometimes contains a filling and is ...

and as soon as I cut into that first slice, it’s like I’m back home. Of course, eating King cake outside of Louisiana also means explaining it to everyone around me. Up here, Mardi Gras isn ...