It’s King Cake Time!!!!
So, it is only fitting that we start our “Mardi Gras Mambo” giveaway series off with a King Cake Package from Randazzo’s Camellia City Bakery!
Bridgette from The Not So Blog and I just love the sweet smell of King Cake! We knew that we must share this totally yummy tradition (and calories!) with our readers.
As a child, my favorite part of king cake season was always Friday afternoons, because this was when we would always get some KING CAKE. They made sure to do this on Friday afternoon so that they would not deal with all the children on their sugar highs. LOL
King’s Day is celebrated as the date the gift-bearing Magi visited the baby Jesus. The King Cake is baked in honor of the three kings and the baby (plastic, porcelain or gold) placed inside the cake symbolizes the baby Jesus. Originally, these oval cakes were a simple ring of dough with a small amount of decoration. Today’s King Cakes are much more festive! After the rich Danish dough is braided and baked, the “baby” is inserted. The top of the ring or oval cake is then covered with delicious sugar toppings in the traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple, green and gold.
In New Orleans, King Cake parties are held throughout the Carnival Season. The person who receives the slice of cake with the baby is asked to continue the festivities by hosting the next King Cake party. So always be careful which piece you take!!
The nice folks over at Randazzo’s Camellia City Bakery have graciously offered one lucky reader
a medium traditional king cake package (including baby) baked to perfection! This package includes a unique Randazzo’s Mardi Gras theme bag, stuffed with beads, doubloons,the history of Mardi Gras and the king cake, a 2009 commemorative 11x 16 color poster, and a beautiful feather mask.
Randazzo’s Camellia City Bakery continues a long family tradition of handmade and braided king cakes and say with heartfelt sincerity that everything at Randazzo’s is “made with love from beginning to end.”
Randazzo’s was even featured on the Food Network’s popular program Unwrapped!
I see you drooling! You must want to win a King Cake! Lucky for you, we have one to give away!
Remember we are generously offering you an opportunity to DOUBLE your chances by registering here as well as at The Not So Blog.
How to enter:
1) Visit Randazzo’s Camellia City Bakery and tell us which filling you would love to try.
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the flour de lis king cake looks cool
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this looks good and fun too.
The pecan praline filling looks yummy.
I think I’d like mine without a filling but cream cheese sounds good! utgal2004[at]yahoo[dot]com
I would choose either cream cheese or strawberry filling.
Growing up I would have chosen Pecan-Praline, but I’m allergic to pecans now, alas! I think I’d probably choose the mix of cream cheese and pineapple. Thank you for the fun giveaway!
turtle cheesecake, yum
Wow, how can you top Pecan and cream cheese mix filling!
I would love the cream cheese with strawberry.
Thanks so much. What a great tradition these are.
Thanks.
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I would love to try the strawberry filling. Thank you for hosting this fun giveaway.
I’d love to try the Cream Cheese filling. Thanks for the review and giveaway!
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I don’t think I would get a filling– I think it looks delicious on it’s own. But, if push came to shove, I would probably do the pecan prailine.
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I would choose the strawberry filling.
Thanks for the giveaway :)
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Pecan and cream cheese filling–mmmmmm!
The Turtle filling please.
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Oh my the Turtle Cheesecake filling sounds divine.
I would love the pecan praline filling
I’d have to let you choose. It’d be between strawberry or cream cheese (or both?). Looks delicious.
I’m choosing pecan praline… it feels more like New Orleans to me than other fillings and I know it would taste incredible!
I’d love to try the Turtle Cheesecake King Cake, which has Pecan and cream cheese mix filling. asthenight at gmail dot com
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I’d love to try the Turtle Cheesecake King Cake, which has Pecan and cream cheese mix filling.
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I would love to try the Fleur de lys king cake with the Pecan praline filling. This is a great giveaway! I’m a french teacher and can’t wait for mardi gras!
Pecan Cheesecake filling looks tasty. For the plain fillings…maybe cherry.
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It’s a tough call. I would probably choose plain, but the strawberry and pecan praline fillings sound amazing as well!
I would love to try the Lemon filling.
Thanks
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pecan praline!!!
Pecan Cheesecake (cream cheese) filling looks tasty. For the plain fillings…maybe cherry.
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The turtle sounds yummy.
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Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake looks like a winner to me.
I’d like to try the Turtle Cheesecake one!
I actually wouldn’t want any filling, but I’d probably try the cream cheese one.
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Praline Pecan or Cream Cheese/Lemon Mix……..it looks luscious!!!
Cream cheese for me. Thanks for the giveaway!
The Turtle cream cheese sounds great.
strawberry sounds good
Oh man, danish with a turtle filling. My mind is ahead of us all, and I’m salivating as we speak. Yum!
The pecan praline filling
Turtle Cheesecake, filling sounds great. We used to live in MS, I miss the celebration of Mardi Gras and King Cakes.
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strawberry filling for me
cream cheese with strawberry sounds wonderful. Thanks for the chance.
Ooh, cream cheese sounds awesome, so does strawberry. Thanks!
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Cream cheese, Turtle Cheesecake, strawberry..oooo they all sound so good!