King cake

A king cake (sometimes rendered as kingcake) is a type of cake associated with Carnival traditions. It is popular in Carnival season in the area of the United States which celebrates Carnival ranging from Mobile, Alabama to South-Western Louisiana, centered on New Orleans. The cakes have a small trinket inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations.

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The tradition was brought to the area by colonists from France and Spain.

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A related culinary tradition is the tortell of Catalonia.

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Cake: A cake is a form of food, usually sweet, often baked . Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), shortening (usually butter or margarine, although a fruit puree ca...

Carnival: : For more meanings, please reference Carnival (disambiguation)....

United States: :For other uses, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation)....

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