Making an honorary birthday cake for Jesus is a beloved, albeit lesser-known tradition that some families repeat year after year. The concept is primarily centered on celebrating the birth of ...

Entringer began baking the porcelain dolls into his king cakes to symbolize baby Jesus and the tradition was born. When he ran out of ceramic babies, he followed the lead of his fellow New Orleans ...

A: In the Christian tradition, king cakes celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem who brought gifts to Jesus on the Twelfth Night. The baby hidden inside represents Jesus.