Mardi Gras Free Downloads and King Cake
Posted by Amy | Filed under Food, Free Downloads & Printables
Mardi Gras is February 24th. For those of you who live in the south, you know what a big deal it is around here. Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival. Learn more about it here.
I’ve found some fun downloads and a great King Cake recipe. If you are celebrating Mardi Gras, I hope you have a blast!!
Print and decorate your own Mardi Gras mask from Skip to My Lou
Children size printable Mardi Gras Masks from Gulf Shores Alabama Real Estate.
Check out these fun Cut-Out Crowns & Jewels downloads from Print Picnic:
New Orleans King Cake
Here is a yummy King Cake recipe from fabulousfoods.com made with a bread machine. (my kind of easy!)
The cake is made with a rich Danish dough, baked and covered with a sugar topping in Mardi Gras colors; purple representing justice, green representing faith, and gold representing power.
In the mid-1900s, a small plastic baby became the symbol of this Holy Day and was placed inside of each King Cake. The New Orleans tradition is that each person takes a piece of cake hoping to find the plastic baby inside. The recipient of the plastic baby is “crowned” King or Queen for the day and that person is obligated to host the following year’s party and supply the King Cake.
Do you celebrate Mardi Gras? If so, what do you do?
Tags: crowns, free dowloads, king cake, Mardi Gras, masks, new orleans, Recipe
February 18th, 2009 at 12:08 am
My family loves to celebrate Mardi Gras! I bake a Kings cake with a plastic baby inside (I put the baby in AFTER the cake is made!)
I made a minature float out of a shoebox one year; I think we will have a float contest this year.
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February 18th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Donna- Shoebox floats would be so fun to make!
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February 18th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Oh, i so remember the excitement of ‘who is going to get the baby’! I’m am really missing Mardi Gras!
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:22 am
These are too cute. Thanks for sharing.
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I just heard about the King Cake the other day watching a rerun of Semi-Homemade on the Food Channel.
We don’t really celebrate Mardi Gras, but I’d love to go down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras sometime!
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February 18th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Ooh, that King Cake looks so yummy!!
We don’t celebrate Mardi Gras, but we do own a condo in the French Quarter. One of these years, we’ll make it down for MG.
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February 18th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I have never celebrated Mardi Gras in my entire life! I guess we’re just to “northern” up here for it.
Looks like fun though.
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