A few weeks ago I had an irresistible desire to eat King Cake. As I don't celebrate many Christian holidays, I found convinced my friends N&S that I should make a cake that I could share with their family. Luckily, this was an easy sell, and everyone loved it. In researching recipes, I learned a lot. This cake is eaten any time between Epiphany and Lent and it can be a plain brioche or filled. Receiving the piece with the Baby Jesus usually means that you are "king" for the day, or that you have to bring the cake next year.
I chose to make a braided brioche version, with a cinnamon-nut filling in the middle of each strand. It was insanely sweet (not a problem for the under-ten crowd, of course) but delicious. I have been eating it all week. A co-worker did hint that if I was going to bring such nice breakfasts to our meetings perhaps I need to bring enough for everyone...
5 comments:
What a lovely idea to share with your friends and colleagues. I've never heard of King Cake.
Did you tell said colleague that the minute they did so for everyone, you would?
Who was made King for the day?
I was just thinking about a tarte aux rois! The bake on that looks excellent by the way. Glad it was a hit!
In the end, we didn't have a king, because I didn't have something the right size and inedibility to insert into the cake. No one much cared, though, because just getting cake on a random Tuesday night was a treat.
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