King cake | Food, Tradition, New Orleans, Baby, Mardi Gras, & Facts

King cake is a sweet, ring-shaped pastry that is served from Epiphany through Shrove Tuesday in the Christian calendar. It is associated with Mardi Gras, the festive pre-Lenten season in the United States, and it is usually baked with a symbolic trinket hidden inside, often to represent the baby Jesus.

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