No longer religious so not celebrating myself now, but I do have fond memories of my Catholic family of origin having a three kings cake. For us the type of cake wasn't important, but there would be three dried beans randomly baked into the cake and whichever three people found the beans in their cake slices would be (paper) crowned the kings.

Yes, Happy Second Christmas™ everybody! Baltazar, Gaspar and Melchoir came by and left gifts. The camels nibbled the carrots and cookie plate. Ate some semi-frozen roscón de reyes for breakfast.

I got a slice of galette des rois at the coffee shop and it was lit, i think we may go for that next year instead.

We're from New Orleans. Can't wait for our annual King Cake to arrive from Randazzo's.

OP, your recipe sounds amazing.

Anonymous wrote:I surely could enjoy a big strawberry cream cheese King Cake right now. My family deserves it.

Louisiana king cake is based on the epiphany cake from the south of France - like a sweet brioche ring. The one pp describes is from the north.

My galette just came out of the oven. It is my absolute favorite French baked good and I wouldn’t miss it for anything. And now my kids count on it and humor me with the song. I stated using a chocolate chip for the fève.

We will celebrate, but nothing as delicious as described above!

I surely could enjoy a big strawberry cream cheese King Cake right now. My family deserves it.

French person here. I will make the galette des rois, the round puff pastry cake. It contains a little porcelain figure hidden inside, and the person who finds it in his or her portion of cake becomes king or queen for the day. The traditional version has frangipane, an almond filling, but one of my children is allergic to nuts, including almonds, so I'll probably do a creme patissiere filling, maybe with chocolate.

What are you doing?