Wednesday, January 6, 2010

King Cakes and Mardi Gras


The holiday fog is starting to lift here at the bakery, and today we will be taking down the last remaining decorations. The timing is just about right, because we baked our first batch of King Cakes today!

Each year at Toni we love to keep the holiday season going by celebrating Mardi Gras.

We do this with traditional New Orleans-style King Cakes. Our King Cake is a light, buttery coffee cake that is accented with cinnamon-sugar, and decorated with purple, gold, and green sugar. We make it even more festive by including the .History of the King Cake beads and a plastic baby trinket, inside the cake itself.

Legend has it, whoever finds the baby trinket in their piece is crowned King for the day, AND gets to throw the next Mardi Gras party and provide the King Cake!

Join in on the New Orleans tradition and brighten up the dreary winter months by bringing one to parties in the office, school, or with family and friends thru February 16th.