King cake, étouffée recipes to help celebrate Mardi Gras By Addie Broyles, Austin American-Statesman
Published: February 10, 2021, 6:05am
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With Lent comes Mardi Gras, and with Fat Tuesday comes all those little plastic babies tucked away in king cakes.
If you want to make your own king cake Mardi Gras falls on Feb. 16 this year let’s turn to Ann Maloney, the former food editor at the Times-Picayune who now works as the recipes editor at the Washington Post. She suggests buying plastic king cake babies and the purple, green and gold sanding sugars online, but you can also find them at party supply and specialty baking stores.