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    "parsed_content": "New Orleanians Can\u2019t Agree on the Identity of the King Cake BabyDoes the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City\u2019s typical joie de vivre?Employees at Dong Phuong Bakery put the final touches on a quartet of king cakes. Tradition dictates that the baby will be hidden within the cake before it is served.New Orleanians Can\u2019t Agree on the Identity of the King Cake BabyDoes the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City\u2019s typical joie de vivre?Employees at Dong Phuong Bakery put the final touches on a quartet of king cakes. Tradition dictates that the baby will be hidden within the cake before it is served.Credit...Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTListen to this article \u00b7 5:45 min Learn moreShare full articleBy Matt HainesPhotographs by Annie FlanaganPublished Feb. 9, 2026Updated Feb. 10, 2026Between Three Kings\u2019 Day on Jan. 6 and Mardi Gras \u2014 celebrated this year on Feb. 17 \u2014 bakeries in New Orleans churn out hundreds of thousands of ring-shaped king cakes, filled with cinnamon and other flavors like cream cheese, drizzled with icing and dusted with purple, green and gold sugar. Almost always it is studded with a small plastic baby.\u201cDon\u2019t forget the baby,\u201d said Linh Tran Garza, the president of Dong Phuong Bakery, a Vietnamese American shop that has become one of the city\u2019s most popular purveyors of king cakes. \u201cPeople get really mad if you forget the baby.\u201dLocal tradition dictates that the baby be hidden somewhere inside the baked good. Whoever finds the figure is crowned queen or king of the party and tasked with providing the next king cake.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBut whom the baby symbolizes is far less definitive.\u201cMany here are certain the baby is meant to symbolize the baby Jesus, while others think that premise is ridiculous,\u201d said Liz Williams, the founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. \u201cIt\u2019s the kind of debate that can only happen in New Orleans.\u201dImageLoretta\u2019s Authentic Pralines puts a Black plastic baby into its praline cream cheese-filled king cakes. The owner Robert Harrison said they use this baby because his mother, Loretta, wanted \u201cthe world to know that this is a proud, Black-owned business.\u201dEveryone, from longtime local bakers to king cake-loving tourists, has an opinion \u2014 often a strong one \u2014 on the topic. For some, the meaning of the king cake baby is passed down from generation to generation, while others take a more history-minded view.The fact, for example, that the tradition of hiding an object, in this case a bean, inside a pastry can be traced to the Saturnalia festival in ancient Rome is all the proof some need that the baby doesn\u2019t represent Christ.\u201cThat bean obviously had nothing to do with Jesus because the bean predates him,\u201d said Kelly Jacques, a co-owner of Ayu Bakehouse in New Orleans. Her king cake features an edible bean-shaped charm instead of a baby, a homage to the original tradition and an effort to reduce the use of plastic.ImageA ceramic f\u00e8ve is often used by the French in galettes des rois. At Levee Baking Co. in New Orleans, each galette comes with a f\u00e8ve made by the ceramicist Jackie Brown.ImageAyu Bakehouse emulates the shape of a traditional bean with gum paste and fondant to pay homage to the ancient tradition and, the co-owner Kelly Jacques said, to reduce the use of plastic used to make king cake babies.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAs the Roman Empire spread across Europe, so did the tradition. Early Christians adopted the custom, incorporating it into the celebration of the Three Kings\u2019 Day and when the French arrived in New Orleans in the 18th century, so did their Three Kings\u2019 cake.Until the mid-20th century, New Orleans bakers placed beans, pecans or coins inside the cake. Then came the figurine: McKenzie\u2019s Pastry Shoppes began placing small porcelain dolls, sometimes known as frozen Charlottes, in its king cakes.\u201cA salesman came in one day and said, \u2018Look at this cute little thing. It won\u2019t get lost like a pecan or a bean,\u2019\u201d Donald Entringer, Sr., the longtime owner of McKenzie\u2019s, recounted to the Times-Picayune in 1990. When replacing the dolls became cost prohibitive, McKenzie\u2019s switched to the less expensive plastic babies now used across New Orleans. \u201cWe were the first to use the babies,\u201d he said. By the mid-1970s, they were commonplace.ImageKing cake babies in packages of 100 at Dong Phuong Bakery.Credit...Annie Flanagan for The New York TimesImageThe bakery ordered 72,000 plastic babies this year, said Linh Tran Garza, the president of Dong Phuong.New Orleans doesn\u2019t have a corner on the baby market, however.Patricia L\u00f3pez Guti\u00e9rrez, a gastronomic researcher at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, said, beginning in the middle of the 20th century, Mexicans also began placing baby dolls in the rosca de reyes, their version of king cake.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cIn Mexico, there is no doubt the baby doll is Jesus,\u201d Ms. Guti\u00e9rrez said. \u201cWhoever gets the baby in the rosca on Jan. 6 must dress and care for the baby and bring it to Church on February 2. We call it the Ni\u00f1o Dios, or Child God.\u201dVincent Scelfo, the president of the family-owned Joe Gambino\u2019s Bakery in Metairie, La., which orders as many as one million babies at a time, agrees. \u201cMardi Gras is a Christian holiday and so is Twelfth Night,\u201d he said. \u201cTwelfth Night is the day that the three kings found baby Jesus, so wouldn\u2019t it make sense that the baby in the cake symbolizes Christ?\u201dImageThe baby rests in a slice of king cake from Joe Gambino\u2019s Bakery. Vincent Scelfo, the company\u2019s president, is part of a contingent of Louisianians who believe the king cake symbolizes the Christ Child.ImageA king cake boxed and ready for a customer at Loretta's Authentic Pralines.Sam Scelfo, Vincent\u2019s father, said that wasn\u2019t the thinking when he began working at the bakery in 1974. Rather, the elder Mr. Scelfo said, the baby seemed like an effective marketing tool to make king cakes more popular. \u201cIt\u2019s a great example of a story that has grown stronger in the telling.\u201dFor Robert Harrison, the owner of Loretta\u2019s Authentic Pralines, which places Black plastic babies in its decadent king cake filled with praline cream cheese, the doll has never represented Christ. It was always an ode to New Orleans\u2019s large Black community.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cTraditions like this can change over time and mean different things to different people,\u201d Mr. Harrison said. \u201cIf someone thinks it is Jesus, that is fine, but to us it definitely isn\u2019t.\u201d For his mother, Loretta, it was about wanting \u201cthe world to know that this is a proud, Black-owned business.\u201d\u201cKing cakes in New Orleans are a chance for a business to tell their story,\u201d he added, \u201cand that\u2019s what my mom did here.\u201dImageBakers at Loretta\u2019s Authentic Pralines add cinnamon and sugar to the king cakes before they are braided, baked and decorated.So, who is right? An examination of the archives of local newspapers shows that the idea that the plastic baby represented the Christ Child did not gain popularity until the early 1980s. In a 1984 Times-Picayune article, the reporter Millie Ball specifically referred to \u201ca porcelain baby symbolizing Jesus.\u201d But in this century, the paper ran an article by the food editor Judy Walker with the headline \u201cOh baby, baby; plastic infants aren\u2019t based on Baby Jesus.\u201dPerhaps it is fitting that Mr. Entringer, who popularized the custom, gets the last word in this debate. \u201cI\u2019ve heard people say it\u2019s supposed to represent the Christ Child,\u201d he told the Times-Picayune in the same 1990 interview, \u201cbut that\u2019s not true. Why we picked this, I don\u2019t know. It was cute. It was just a trinket that happened to be a baby.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFollow New York Times Cooking on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Pinterest. Get regular updates from New York Times Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice.A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 11, 2026, Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: New Orleans Embraces Its Plastic Babies. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | SubscribeShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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