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Week 9: Mardi Gras - Undecorated King Cake

 I had been excited to make kings cake ever since I saw we were doing Mardi Gras.  I found my recipe from "How to Bake Everything".  Kings cake I learned is really a bread.  The dough is similar to cinnamon roll dough.  I was watching YouTube videos and decided to check out some people making Kings Cake.  This is when the trouble started.  People were filling the Kings Cake.  That is not what my book said to do. Now I had to start reading about Kings Cake.  Does everyone fill it?  What kind of filling?  Maybe this is a regional thing and I don't have to fill mine.  Most people were not braiding their Kings Cake.  I was looking forward to braiding mine.  What makes a Kings Cake a Kings Cake?

Noooooo I wrote so much more and lost it somehow.  Well clearly save didn't work.  Ug.  Well, part of the point of this blog is that I am a mom and I don't have a lot of time.  My longer version is lost.  I made the King Cake.  It was good.  It is light and fluffy.  A good bread.
King Cake can be braided, twisted or neither.  It does not have to have filled.  It can have candied fruit on it or not.  In the USA just about all have the colored sugar.  King Cake is celebrated all over Europe.  It is to celebrate the day the Wise Men made it to Jesus.  
Here are two photos

   

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