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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Smorgasbord Happy Mardi Gras!
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Our staff at Creative Loafing celebrated Fat Tuesday with a cake with a baby baked inside. No, not a real baby – we're crazy, but not that crazy.
Yep ... it was a king cake for Mardi Gras, which is today, February 16. The traditional yeasted cake decorated with green, yellow, and purple icing and sugar is known for containing a little trinket somewhere inside (it's usually a baby). Custom says whoever gets the slice of cake with the baby in it must buy the next king cake or throw the next party.
Here's our baby:
Kinda creepy, eh?
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