[youtube]PsGioqndeeo[/youtube] Famous Fat Dave: Mardi Gras King Cake Mardi Gras’ king cake looks exactly like what you’d expect a Mardi Gras’ premier dessert to look like: big with loud, unnatural colors and a lot of sparkles.
In terms of shape, the king cake looks like a bloated doughnut. Try not to think about the calories. There’s also a small prize baked into the cake—typically a tiny, plastic figurine of the baby Jesus, so don’t eat the cake too quickly.
Mardi Gras, today, comes the day before Lent, which generally involves living a more austere lifestyle for 40 days and includes fasting and repenting. With this, people take the opportunity on Mardi Gras (also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday) to indulge in the sugars, lards, eggs, and flour that they won’t be using for the next few weeks.
Tim Carman from the Washington City Paper goes into further detail about the cake, writing “Some are bread-like, with drizzled icing and colorful sugars sprinkled on top. Others are squat and stuffed with sweet things, whether a cream cheese mixture or canned apple pie filling.”
“There are fudge-covered ‘Zulu’ king cakes dusted with toasted coconut shavings,“ Carman continues. ”There are king cupcakes (of course). There are even ‘queen’ cakes,“ which food writer Sara Roahen describes as ”a wreath of open-face jelly doughnuts, a jewel of different filling embedded into every couple inches of pastry.”
Mardi Gras is almost over, so finish eating up and feasting on good memories!
In terms of shape, the king cake looks like a bloated doughnut. Try not to think about the calories. There’s also a small prize baked into the cake—typically a tiny, plastic figurine of the baby Jesus, so don’t eat the cake too quickly.
Mardi Gras, today, comes the day before Lent, which generally involves living a more austere lifestyle for 40 days and includes fasting and repenting. With this, people take the opportunity on Mardi Gras (also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday) to indulge in the sugars, lards, eggs, and flour that they won’t be using for the next few weeks.
Tim Carman from the Washington City Paper goes into further detail about the cake, writing “Some are bread-like, with drizzled icing and colorful sugars sprinkled on top. Others are squat and stuffed with sweet things, whether a cream cheese mixture or canned apple pie filling.”
“There are fudge-covered ‘Zulu’ king cakes dusted with toasted coconut shavings,“ Carman continues. ”There are king cupcakes (of course). There are even ‘queen’ cakes,“ which food writer Sara Roahen describes as ”a wreath of open-face jelly doughnuts, a jewel of different filling embedded into every couple inches of pastry.”
Mardi Gras is almost over, so finish eating up and feasting on good memories!
