Purple, green, and gold are the colors to look out for in bakery windows this afternoon if you want to score a piece of the traditional Mardi Gras treat, King Cake. The New Orleans delicacy is a ring-shaped cake covered in purple, green, and gold icing and twisted with anything from fruit to nuts to cinnamon to cream cheese. In every King Cake, however, there is always the legendary porcelain (or maybe just plastic) baby, whose implications range from the bearer being crowned king for the day to bearing the brunt of purchasing the next cake. The oldest myth is that whoever finds the baby in his slice will be crowned king for the year but will then be sacrificed in the following year.
To make sure that your King Cake is worth dying for, head to Mara’s Homemade, a Creole restaurant on East 6th Street. Tonight she’ll serve up traditional Creole festival fare as well as sell outstanding King Cakes in full or by the slice.
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