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2. King cake - Wikipedia

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   A king cake, also known as a three kings cake or a baby cake, is a cake associated in many countries with Epiphany, the celebration of the Twelfth Night after Christmas. [1] Its form and ingredients are variable, but in most cases a fève (lit. ' fava bean ') such as a figurine representing the Christ Child, is hidden inside. [2]

3. What is king cake and why is there a plastic baby inside? - AOL

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   The popularity of king cakes in recent years has spawned a growing king cake industry — and most online king cake depots ship almost anywhere. Getting “the best” king cake is a different story.

4. Here's Everything You Need to Know About King Cakes - AOL

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   What's the meaning behind king cake? The cake got its start long, long ago. We're talking the Middle Ages! ... The plastic baby just makes eating king cake more fun. In fact, it kind of makes it a ...

5. What is a king cake? Follow the pastry's journey from ...

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   Plastic baby aside, eating a colorful king cake for Mardi Gras is a cinnamon-sugary tradition. (Photo: Getty Creative) (VeselovaElena via Getty Images) Fat Tuesday.

6. Fève - Wikipedia

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   In an American king cake – popularly eaten during Epiphanytide, as well as around Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast – the fève traditionally takes the form of a small plastic or porcelain baby, symbolizing baby Jesus. Fava beans were also used to represent Jesus. [2] [3] [4]

7. List of foods with religious symbolism - Wikipedia

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   King cake - a cake or bread served at Epiphany in many Christian countries, usually having a single bean baked inside it; as the Three Kings discovered the infant Jesus after following a guiding star, so the person discovering the bean (symbolic of a swaddled infant, and in modern times sometimes replaced by a small plastic baby) figuratively ...

8. What The Plastic Baby In Your King Cake Really Means - AOL

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   Find out the history of one of Mardi Gras's long-standing traditions: the Mardi Gras King Cake.

9. Biblical Magi - Wikipedia

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   In France and Belgium, a cake containing a small figure of the baby Jesus, known as the "broad bean", is shared within the family. Whoever gets the bean is crowned king for the remainder of the holiday and wears a cardboard crown purchased with the cake. A similar practice is common in many areas of Switzerland, but the figurine is a miniature ...