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Happy Mardi Gras! What better way to celebrate than with a traditional Mardi Gras King Cake?
Now I have to preface this post by saying I haven’t tasted king cake for about 8 years, so I didn’t really remember what a king cake was supposed to taste like. I perused a few recipes and came to the conclusion that king cake isn’t very cake-like, but more like a breakfast danish with either a cream cheese or pecan filling. I love pecan anything so I went with an adapted version of this Mardi Gras King Cake recipe.
I made this sans baby. You see, traditional king cake has a tiny, plastic baby hidden inside. Whoever has the good fortune of getting the baby in their piece is obligated to supply the king cake or host the king cake party the following year. I have issues with the little, plastic baby. It seems like a choking hazard and it looks like a prop the anti-choice movement might use. So for those reasons, there was no baby in this cake.