By james art 
It’s time. We are a week of what will probably be our last King Cake bites for the year.
The long carnival season means that we had about three weeks long to indulge in last year. Our team accepts an inventory, cataloging what we have tried and what we still hope to get in before the last beads are thrown.
And although we may not be quite at the level of Matt Hinese-with its 100-Plus royal cake table and everyone we love lately.
Poupart
Get on: Local independent supermarkets. Bet-R-Grocery stocks Galette des Rois side by side with the more familiar brioche rings.
“The first and last royal cake I buy every year is the traditional French royal cake of Poupart, made with a dough stuffed with a thin layer of Fragipan. Follow the instructions and heat them in the oven before serving. Payment is a delicious layers of delicate butter dough dotted with soft and sweet almond paste. Like the more common royal cakes, they also have a baby. If you like almond croissants, you should try one. “
—Maggie Heyn Richardson, 225 Includes a writer
Eloise Market and Cakery
Get on: 320 Lee Drive, Suite D
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“This cake with a king is mentioned because I had a hand in doing it! I participated in one of the Eloise Market and Cakery Cake Cakes in this carnival season and I would recommend it to everyone. There are a few spots left, so pick up your tickets quickly! I am a very beginner bakery, but the founder of Eloise and the owner MJ Schmidt Burr has translated us every step of making his own carnival creation – from adding the filling to decoration of the top in purple, gold and green – with such confidence and ease. It was a super fun evening and I loved to learn something new. Our cakes were not as complicated as some of Eloise’s leveled versions, but they were still quite tasty. And you have to try slices straight from the oven, which unlocked even more new King cake knowledge about this almost Lifelong Louisianan. Scientific Lesson: A cake with a hot king is somehow about 10 times better than the king’s cake in the room. “
–Laura Furr Mericas, 225 Manager
Brennan
Get on: Robért Fresh Market (7355 Highland Road) and total wine and more (7074 Siegen Lane)
“From King’s cakes, I was able to try this season at Mardi Gras, The Pink Parade King Cake from the classic of New Orleans Brennan ran the most. Perhaps this is because the neon pink cake cannot be ignored in composition, or maybe it is because of the bits of cheese from the inside and preserved strawberry strawberry ponchatoula from the Johnsdale farm. Either way, it’s sweet as it can be, and I liked it. The cakes are created with brioche dough and are glazed with pink cocoa butter and strawberry glaze. Sparks and pink and white sugar pebbles on top really sell it for me. It’s just charming! I’m all about aesthetics. If it is nice, it is safe to assume that I will love him. But this royal cake is not just gorgeous – strawberry stuffing is so sweet and rich, and the aroma penetrates the whole cake. Pink Parade is the season cake for me, both for visual attractiveness and for taste. “
–Gracelyn Farrar, 225 Contributing writer
Nona Randaco Bakery
Get on: Robért Fresh Market (7355 Highland Road)
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“Yes, this is the same bakery I chose last year. So, what? I am proud to be a staple for my hometown cake (the only one I ever remember I grew up), and I think someone would be after having a slice. Now I do not know if I tried every single bakery of the Randato family to see if one makes the family recipe a little better than the others. But I know that Nonna randazzo has the traditional pastry pat. I can’t go to a carnival season without taking a trip to Covington’s place to pour a cake. My favorite is strawberry and cream-gray, but at the moment my boyfriend and I quickly make our way through Bavarian cream. And although Nonna randazzo boasts tons of fillings and scents, you don’t sleep on the traditional. Each cake starts super fresh with the most perfect and full of cinnamon bready braids, covered with a sticky sweet cherry and stumbles into festive non-monilers. Well, all this conversations makes me travel to my kitchen to take another slice. Believe me this: you have to try Randatso’s cake once in your life. If you can’t get one locally, the Covington location is only about an hour away. Go! “
—In’s deffes, 225 Digital editor
Rouses markets
Get on: Different places
“As a new resident of Baton Rouge, who has never had a king cake until he moved to Louisiana, my knowledge is understandably limited. What me have However, we can quickly understand that the choice of King cake can be controversial. This was said that everything I tried in the area of Capitol so far is always back to blond. Call me a traditionalist, but I love a simple cake with a king without filling or extra flavors. I appreciate when the cake for the king is more than the cinnamon side, not the side of the cake. I think Rouses makes it good at an affordable price. It takes the cake for me designed for pun. “
-Ban white, 225 Contributing writer and photographer
Dong Foung Vietnamese bakery
Get on: Authorized distributors such as Sweet Society, Saigon Hong Kong Seafood Market, Pho Café, Bao Asian Market and A & J Bean
“Working in the media, I’m tired of King Cake Way Tall Rany. Each colleague wears some version of the classic dessert weeks or even months before fat on Tuesday. A colleague brought a variety that I had never had before: a coveted cake with a King of Dong Foung Vietnam Bakery. One slice and I was hooked. Only the view of this attracted me, the creamy glaze did not look like your usual king cake. What started as a “only taste” on the way home from work ended in “I wish I had more.” I only later learned about the frost of the butter and the brioche used to prepare the cake. Needless to say, I don’t think I will get tired of King’s cakes this year. At least after Mardi Grass. “
– Oscar tickling, 225 Multimedia
Bakery ragweed
Get on: 8546 Siegen Lane
“Maybe one day I will try another aroma of ragweed. But for me, it is not the Mardi Gras season if I didn’t have at least one slice of my Zulu King cake, reduced with chocolate glaze and coconut slices and cream cheese stuffed. I’m just a chocolate girl through and through. I also appreciate that you can generally stop at the showcase and take one-big panic at the last moment before Parade Day. “
“Jennifer Hamo Alvarez, 225 editor -in -chief
French Celtica bakery
Get on: 218 Robert E. Lee in New Orleans or try a similar version from Poupart Bakery by Grocers Capital Region as Bet-R Grocery
“Around the middle of last week, I admitted to my husband that I (unfortunately) felt a little burned on King’s cake. I blame the longer season and that we worked 225February issue of months, which excited me too early this season. No A professional move on my part. But on Saturday, as I caught parades in New Orleans, I was familiar with the Galette des Rois of French French Bakery – everything changed. This French cake in the style of a pastry chef was a great change in the pace from Bready, Iced and sprinkled versions I loaded. The crunchy, butter -butter dough and delicate almond filling were so light and delicious, and the magnificent golden, folded vortices on top were almost too much to cut. Still, this cake didn’t have minutes. It is safe to say that my passion for King’s cake reigns. I was so lucky to see that my neighborhood market, Bet-R Grochery, also sold a similar version from Poupart Bakery. The popular traditional French cake for the Lafayette Bakery King hit all such notes as Crescent City cousin, but with a little more crunch. I will grab at least one more before the end of the week. Or maybe I will pierce by making this similar recipe from our archives! “
–Laura Furr Mericas, 225 Manager
Kalando Supermarket
Get on: 4142 Government
“Kalando has been a staple for groceries over the years and I turn there during Mardi Grass. There are tons of scents on King cake, but I always go for the old casual cheese. While his other scents are delicious, there is simply nothing to hit a place more for me than the cake with cream cheese during Grass Mardi. “
– Madison Cooper, 225 Contributing writer
“I’ll say something radically. I like a simple cake with a king. Even against the backdrop of today’s endless choice of aroma-maybe because of them-I have an unfilled cake with ordinary Jane King by Calandro’s to make my current favorite. Maybe this is the overload of sugar from a long carnival season, or maybe I just like the harvest. But the classic plain of Kalando’s government won me with its gentle brios, surrounded by cinnamon and frosting enough. I’m as boring as someone who requires a pizza with cheese? Oh well. A wonderful ordinary royal cake, just for me. “
—Maggie Heyn Richardson, 225 Includes a writer