Mardi Gras: Celebrate with king cake and 16 additional recipes!

It's Fat Tuesday one last day to splurge before Lent! Celebrate with this decadent alternative to the traditional king cake!

The Pelicans–who just redesigned their primary mascot to make it less terrifying–have brought back King Cake Baby for Mardi Gras. Here's he/she/it at the Clippers game last night:

They make their own king cakes, as well as some of the other branded ones seen around town. It's day 56 in our 58 Days of King Cakes project. In this long Carnival season, the NOLA.com | Times-Picayune entertainment staff is reporting on one king cake

The Pelicans–who just redesigned their primary mascot to make it less terrifying–have brought back King Cake Baby for Mardi Gras. Here's he/she/it at the Clippers game last night:

The King Cake is a sacred confection eaten between Epiphany and Mardi Gras. In different parts of the world, there are different traditions for the type of cake, the filling, and the trinket that's hidden in the center. In the US, a