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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Contest ends at 11:59pmCST on February 16th. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.
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Pecan Praline sounds yummy. Thanks.
Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake
Pecan praline filling in the King Turtle
The turtle cheesecake King Cake sounds terribly decadent!
Turtle cheesecake sound yummy.
The pecan praline filling sound Tasty !!
strawberry filling
oh yum!
I’d love to try the pecan praline filling!
I am drooling… pecan-praline and cream cheese! Yummy
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Sarah
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the pecan prailine please!
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yum! i would choose the turtle kingcake with pecan praline filling.
The blueberry sounds great to me.
OMG! I want to win so bad.. I was lamenting not having a King Cake this year! Apple filling for me!! :9 Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! eyeslikesugar [at] gmail [dot] com
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Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake is my choice.
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Cream Cheese with Strawberry
Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake
Cream Cheese with Strawberry
I am having a mardigras party for my Red Hat group..what a fun idea! I would pick the pecan praline filling.
Lemon sounds good to me! This is really nostalgic… we used to eat these and have a party when I was in elementary school!
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strawberry!
I’d love to try the Pecan-Praline filling.
Turtle Kingcake
The turtle cheesecake king cake sounds amazing! What’s not to love!
I’d probably go for the cream cheese filling.
I would like it either without filling or with cream cheese.
Probably cream cheese w/strawberry
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I would love to try the Cream Cheese filling. Yummy!
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Cream Cheese looks good, as do they all!!!!Thanks!
I would love the raspberry and cream cheese filling…great combination. Thanks for the chance :)
I’m stuck between strawberry and raspberry, both sound so good!
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I love the cream cheese flavor!!
I subscribed.
Apple filling, please!
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The cream cheese or the strawberry sound awesome
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I would like to try the raspberry filling!
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I’d love to try the Cream Cheese filling!
the turtle king cake sounds amazing.. it has a pecan praline filling
Too many I want to try! I think I would choose (don’t hold me to this!) pecan-prailine. But, I see there is a half and half option! Thanks for the tasty giveaway!
I’d like to try Cherry.
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The cream cheese filling sounds delicious.
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Apple filling sounds wonderful!
pecan praline filling