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HEY, IT'S---KING CAKE DAY!

010625 (NOLA) There is no better way to celebrate the Mardi Gras season then with the most decadent dessert of all-the King Cake! Today, Monday, January 6, officially kicks off the start of Carnival and the sale of King Cakes, one of Louisiana's most anticipated traditions. There is a long history of hiding trinkets inside the cakes. The modern tradition of placing a plastic baby in the cake started in New Orleans. A commercial bakery called McKenzie's popularized the baby trinket that was baked into cakes back in the 1950s; they were originally made of porcelain but later swapped out for an easier-to-find plastic version. These days the plastic baby figurine is typically sold along with the already-baked cake and hidden by the consumer, rather than coming baked inside.


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