King cake is so named for the story of the three kings in the Bible, who brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Classic versions of the dessert start with a batter that's halfway between that of a coffee ...

After the parade-watching, bead-catching, mask-wearing festivities in Louisiana this season, you may want to sneak away a treat or two back home. But, bringing your favorite slice of king cake with ...

This is a short Carnival season, which means it’s a short king cake season, too. We’re already roughly a quarter of the way to Mardi Gras day, when king cake falls back out of culturally sanctioned ...

For those who celebrate the Epiphany — the celebration of the Twelfth Night after Christmas — on Jan. 6, you may look forward to putting your shoes outside your door for gifts, watching annual parades ...

Between Epiphany and Mardi Gras, people all over the world eat King Cake. Whether simply because it tastes good or because people love holiday traditions, the King Cake is beloved. Before Lent starts ...

The Lafayette bakery’s popular gingerbread twins and naturally colored King Cakes are uniting the community during Mardi Gras season. LAFAYETTE PARISH — What started as a playful gingerbread cookie ...

Denae Reddick (center) and Leslie Jarreau, instructors at New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute, divide king cake dough for students on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. It’s a Saturday in January, ...

Elsewhere around our country, sensible people are putting away holiday décor and perhaps battening down for a long, productive winter. Not here. Carnival begins Jan. 6 with parades and parties, and of ...

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Ian McNulty, a food culture writer for nola.com about Mardi Gras cakes and the first Mardi Gras king cake bracket. Time to get into the Mardi Gras spirit in this final ...

If you consider yourself a baker and you celebrate Mardi Gras, making a king cake is a rite of passage. Aubri Juhasz of member station WWNO in New Orleans joined culinary students for their very first ...