Sanni’s Project 365 » 23-365: La Galette des Rois

[ One of the reasons I loved the job at the catering company I worked for ages ago so much was I learned a lot about traditions from foreign countries near and far. Nico, one of the French cooks, introduced "galette de rois" to us. Every year around Epiphany he baked the famous king cake using his mom's secret recipe. The delicious cake is made of puff pastry and frangipane. A single bean or figurine gets baked inside the cake. Whoever stumbles upon the figurine / bean will be crowned king for the remaining holiday. The king also holds the next "Three Kings Party".

While he shared the tradition with us, Nico never revealed the recipe - and ended up baking at least 4 or 5 king cakes during January.

I bet you can imagine I was so thrilled to read a post over at my friend Claudie's blog about my beloved king cake. Besides explaining the tradition, Claudie also shared a surprisingly easy to bake recipe for galette des rois and some funny facts.

We baked our very first home-made king cake today. So much fun. Of course Luis couldn't wait. He crowned himself before the cake was placed inside the oven. His enthronement was well deserved - he also found the trinket in his piece of cake.

The whole family is in king cake heaven - thank you so much, Claudie! ]

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Lifecruiser Travel Blog (10 comments.) at 25.01.10 | 10:12

Oh - you did it! Fabulous!!!!!! YUM!!!!! Ha ha…. I can see and hear Luis being the King…. Too cute.

Nice snowing. I’m waiting to turn on my snowing on the blog again. They predict Wednesday-Thursday we will have heavy snowing again.

Sanni (24 comments.) at 25.01.10 | 18:03

Captain Lifecruiser - We had so much fun making and baking the cake. Above all it tasted sooooo de-li-cio-us!

Snow is caused by the “Let it Snow” plug-in, not my fault

Although I’m not a huge fan of the darkness I will never forget how beautiful Stockholm looks covered with snow. It will always be one fo my favorite places on earth, no matter which season. I’m pretty sure you both are dressed warmly already - but don’t forget to get some Glögg *hicc*. Keeping my fingers crossed for a liveable amount of snow…

claudie (1 comments.) at 31.01.10 | 21:25: I enjoy to read your post!!! Nice to learn you had so much fun to cook, eat and find the figurine with la galette des rois!!!!
I can hear your little guy just reading your post!!!
Some parents who have their kid in my class did the recipe at home and enjoyed to eat it and found it much better than those they buy at the supermarket!
Now comes the time of the pancakes!
we will cook them on thursday with the pupils.
I think I will buy some nutella. It’s delicious with the pancakes!