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Chef David Guas should be on your radar when it comes to king Cakes – a sweet bread-similar dessert often eaten during Mardi Gras celebrations.

The New Orleans native, who is owner of Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eating place in Arlington, Virginia, shares with Fox News Digital a little history on the beloved confection, plus why you'll find a plastic babe inside of rex cakes.

"Male monarch cake is to Mardi Gras as pumpkin pie is to Thanksgiving — without it, the holiday simply would not be the aforementioned! Every table in every abode, office, cafeteria and lounge will be graced by a king cake at some bespeak between Twelfth Nighttime on January. half-dozen, and Fat Tuesday, when Lent begins," said Guas, who is also writer of "Dam Expert Sugariness: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style.

"During this time, which can happily stretch for months depending on the calendar year, New Orleans is invaded with king cakes and parties," he added.

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Equally Guas explained, in that location is much lore about the origins of the king block ritual.

"One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever constitute a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the yr," he said. "Whether the story was true or what you believe, Christians have long served cakes containing coins or gilt beans for the Banquet of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, a commemoration of the visit of the three wise men—the Magi or Kings—to the infant Jesus 12 days after his nascence."

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As we celebrate Mardi Gras, David Guas, a New Orleans native and pastry chef, dishes on why King Cakes have a plastic baby inside of them.

As nosotros gloat Mardi Gras, David Guas, a New Orleans native and pastry chef, dishes on why Male monarch Cakes have a plastic baby inside of them. (iStock)

Shifting from coins and beans to plastic babies apparently took identify at the finish of the 19th century.

"Electric current king cake rituals in New Orleans evolved from the late 1800s when Mardi Gras Krewes (a term for parade and party organizing social club groups) used these cakes to cull queens and kings to preside over weekly balls, kickoff with the Twelfth Night Brawl," said Guas, noting that the rex cake tradition is thought to have been brought to New Orleans from France in 1870.

Guas said that afterward seven days, the person who finds the babe in their slice will bake the next one.

"With the edible bean now a infant and the ball a bacchanalian celebration, the cake remains a sweet way to break staff of life with your fellow revelers," he said.

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