Over the past several days, we had started to notice that ALL of the bakeries in Paris were starting to display these beauties in their front windows: Isn't it glorious? Meet... la Galette des Rois. They come in various sizes of marvelousness, and are only sold in early January around epiphany, complete with a paper fleur-de-lis crown. The tradition holds that the galette is meant to "lure the kings" to epiphany. Sure, why not, it would work for me - they're delicious.
In the US - especially if you are from New Orleans - you will know the Galette des Rois as a King Cake, which is eaten a few months later in celebration of Mardi Gras. The NO version is a lot more colorful and sugary than the one you see above. Apparently, the galette they make in the South of France look quite similar to its US cousin. Another similarity between the transatlantic King Cakes is that they both hide a little plastic figurine (la fève) inside. Here, if you find the figurine in your piece of cake, you are made king for the day and on goes the paper crown. Huzzah!! In the US, they bake a baby Jesus into the cake, and if you're Michael, you collect as many baby Jesi as possible and hide them surreptitiously in drinks throughout the evening. You have all been duly warned if you happen to visit us next January :)
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