If Mardi Gras season is the biggest party of the year, then Fat Tuesday is the ultimate final bash before the solemn Lenten ...

King cake — a colorful brioche cake with a good luck plastic baby inside — is eaten around Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras but can ...

Here's a list of seven bakeries where you can order King Cakes, which are traditionally eaten between the Christian feast of Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.

The name “King Cake” is a reference to the Biblical story of the three kings or wisemen who brought gifts when Jesus was born ...

Here's what you need to know about Mardi Gras in Mississippi, where to find family fun events around the state during Carnival, when to get king cake.

Food historian Liz Williams told the Associated Press last year that the roots of king cake culture date to Saturnalia ...

Plan your parade strategy early, grab a king cake to celebrate the season and ... (40 days of Lent and seven Sundays). The day after Fat Tuesday is Ash Wednesday, which kicks off 40s days of ...

If you're looking for a place to order a king cake this season, the Jackson area has options. Most shops stop selling king ...

King cake is also a staple during the Mardi Gras season, which begins Jan. 6 and ends the day before Lent on Fat Tuesday ... is a small figurine of a baby, or another symbolic trinket, that ...

(The plastic baby hidden inside king cakes today is a nod to this story.) King cake also appears on tables throughout the Carnival season, which runs from Epiphany to Fat Tuesday (the day before ...

Mardi Gras, also known as "Fat Tuesday ... is the king cake. This sweet, ring-shaped pastry is typically decorated with purple, green, and gold sugar and hides a small plastic baby inside.

Check back as Mardi Gras progresses; it doesn’t end until Fat Tuesday, which is March 4 this year. Remember, each cake has a plastic baby hidden somewhere within its dough. If you find it ...