Mardi Gras season is here which means king cake season is here too. King cake is a sugary treat as synonymous with Mardi Gras as New Orleans and plastic beads. King cake is oval-shaped and is ...

Some associate it with Mardi Gras, others with a celebration known as Epiphany. King cake is eaten on January 6 in honor of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, which historically marks the arrival of the ...

You may not be able to get to New Orleans in the time between Epiphany and Mardi Gras, but if you still want to celebrate, there’s a sweet tradition you can eat anywhere: king cake. While king ...

The streets are lined with excitement, there are tons of Mardi Gras beads to be thrown about, and of course, there is the ...

Maybe we should be able to eat king cake before Jan. 6. Vinyl record scratches to a halt. Cat screeches. Baby cries. Window breaks. Ice cream scoop falls off the cone, thuds to the ground.

So it was only natural that customers began to ask about king cakes each winter. A child needed one to bring to school. A host wanted to serve one at a party. Dong Phuong, which opened in 1982 ...