My King Cake

 Here it is. 

A King Cake is made to celebrate holidays in many cultures.  In the USA, the city of New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras the day before Ash Wednesday.  The original idea was to party and use up all the sweets in the house because on the next day Lent begins--Ash Wednesday.

Some people put a nut in the center of the cake and bake it.  Whoever finds the nut in their piece will have luck for a year, or something else significant.  Some people have the person who found the nut become responsible for providing the King Cake the next year.

It's called "King Cake" because our king, Jesus Christ is in the center.  My little figure of Jesus is plastic so I'm not baking it in a cake.  I placed it in the middle after the cake was made.  Colored sugar was sprinkled over the cake in Mardi Gras colors.