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?
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2010.
That freaked me out a little.
Naw!! That’s what you’re supposed to do and whoever gets the baby buys the next king cake. So, who’s getting the next one? We had king cupcakes here at Charlotte Parent. Wore my beads and listened to WWOZ over the net. Next best thing to being there!
Our listings editor got the baby in her slice. Guess she’s buying the next cake! 😀