Availability is limited, so Lunds & Byerlys recommends calling the bakery at your nearest store to order ahead of time. King Cake, made with a rich, sweet dough filled with cinnamon and sprinkled with sugar in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, gold and green ($14.99, 20 ounces), is available March 1-5 at Lunds & Byerlys stores. Lunds & Byerlys (several Twin Cities locations ). Customers can call their closest store in advance to place their order or have one set aside for pickup. King Cake is served on a 9-by-13-inch sheet cake board ($11.99, serves 8 to 12) and is available in stores from March 3-5.
Kowalski’s Markets (several Twin Cities locations ). Available year-round by pre-ordering, which is recommended at least one day in advance. 28th St., Minneapolis 61 ): King Cake ($25.50, serves 8 to 12) with classic sweet dough is braided and topped with cream cheese frosting and decorated Mardi Gras style, including a plastic baby inside. Pre-orders are taken through March 5 at least one day in advance. Traditional cinnamon ($15.95, serves 8) is available through pre-orders. (17416 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka 95 ). To guarantee availability, customers are encouraged to order one to two days in advance by calling 65 or ordering online at. The bakery plans to make several hundred cakes a few days before and on Fat Tuesday, and they will be available at the bakery for walk-ins on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last. Currently Dorothy Ann is offering caramel pecan, raspberry cream cheese, cinnamon and lemon cream cheese fillings ($18.99, serves 10 to 12). For more than 20 years, Dorothy Ann has been serving, in a festive box, King Cakes with lots of filling, gooey icing and Mardi Gras-colored sugars.
(Courtesy of Dorothy Ann Bakery)ĭorothy Ann Bakery (710 Commerce Drive, Woodbury 65 ). King Cake from Dorothy Ann Bakery in Woodbury. Take note that some bakeries offer the cakes on a first-come, first-served basis. If you’re planning on March 5 to mark a New Orleans-style Fat Tuesday with friends and family, let them eat King Cake. In any case, we don’t put the proffered item inside the cake, but leave that up to the customer.” “Our original source for the ‘baby’ dried up and the next best thing (available) was so small it was a choking hazard. “The only significant change has been moving from offering a plastic baby - the age-old tradition - to our chocolate coin,” said Bonnie Alton, owner of Great Harvest Bread Co., the Cathedral Hill bakery that has been offering King Cakes since 2012. Other places are scrapping the practice altogether, while others offer a plastic baby, so be sure to ask, if it’s a must-have for you. Paul and Dorothy Ann Bakery in Woodbury, are opting to offer other trinkets, such as a gold coin, inside the cake. Traditionally, King Cakes are made with a plastic baby hidden inside - a symbol of good luck bestowed upon the recipient who scores the slice of cake containing it - but we found that some bakeries have made tweaks to this.īakeries, including Great Harvest Bread Co. The oval-shaped, bread-like Mardi Gras cakes come in a variety of fillings, are topped with frosting and then sprinkled with purple-, gold- and green-colored sugar. King Cake, the festive New Orleans-style sweet treat popular on Fat Tuesday, is making the rounds in the Twin Cities metro area.
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