The first week of January starts the king cake season.

The "king cake" takes its name from the biblical three kings.

Some organizations or groups of friends may have "king cake parties" every week through the Carnival season.

The person who finds the doll (or bean) must provide the next king cake.

In 1997 a new addition was added to the festivities, the baking of the world's largest king cake.

Dorigniac's has a large bakery at the front of the store and offers King cakes.

The king cake of the Louisiana tradition comes in a number of styles.

Another traditional cake is the king cake served on Epiphany.

She produced a plateful of very rich-loo king cake lets.

If you find a charm in your slice of King Cake, then you'll have good luck.

In some places, it replaces the King cake.

A special cake, the king cake, was also baked then for Epiphany.

This is similar to the tradition of king cake at the festival of Epiphany.

They also have a Kosher bakery, whose king cakes feature baby Moses.

And the season's wreath-shaped king cakes hiding a plastic baby grow more sumptuous by the batch.

The children have king cake parties.

This later version is also common to Spain and very similar to New-Orleans king cake.

This is a kind of king cake, with a trinket (usually a porcelain figurine) or a bean hidden inside.

Some krewes select their monarchs via king cake.

Lundi Gras is also a day for king cake parties and other family get-togethers in Mobile.

Other figures have been seen historically, and starting in the 1990s again became more common in the more expensive "gourmet" varieties of king cake.

You may catch Mr. Cadiou mixing almond cream for king cakes, traditional in early winter.

They drove past the Dollar Mart and the bakery that sold King Cakes.

It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties.

The traditional King cake is a coffee cake, and is oblong and braided.