Ayu Bakehouse in the Marigny sells their king cake with a golden bean instead of a baby. The bakery, which opened in 2022, won The Times-Picayune's 2024 king cake bracket.

(The plastic baby hidden inside king cakes today is a nod to this story.) King cake also appears on tables throughout the Carnival season, which runs from Epiphany to Fat Tuesday (the day before ...

The culture in New Orleans during Mardi Gras is rich, with no shortage of traditions, including the king cake, the secretly placed baby inside the sweet pastry, and the many facets of symbolism ...

Across all these traditions, the common denominator is a small figurine of a baby, or another symbolic trinket, that is hidden inside the cake. The person who nearly consumes the figurine in their ...

Woman Invited Her Boyfriend's Ex-Wife to Sex Reveal Party — and Her Message to the Baby Goes Viral ... worker double-checked the cake flavor, which made the inside blue.

As for the person who finds the baby Jesus in their slice of bread king cake, it looks like they will be in charge of hosting a feast and providing tamales, or other traditional dishes ...