It's King Cake Time!!!!
So, it is only fitting that we start our "Mardi Gras Mambo" giveaway series off with a King Cake Package from Randazzo's Camellia City Bakery!
Bridgette from The Not So Blog and I just love the sweet smell of King Cake! We knew that we must share this totally yummy tradition (and calories!) with our readers.
As a child, my favorite part of king cake season was always Friday afternoons, because this was when we would always get some KING CAKE. They made sure to do this on Friday afternoon so that they would not deal with all the children on their sugar highs. LOL
King's Day is celebrated as the date the gift-bearing Magi visited the baby Jesus. The King Cake is baked in honor of the three kings and the baby (plastic, porcelain or gold) placed inside the cake symbolizes the baby Jesus. Originally, these oval cakes were a simple ring of dough with a small amount of decoration. Today's King Cakes are much more festive! After the rich Danish dough is braided and baked, the "baby" is inserted. The top of the ring or oval cake is then covered with delicious sugar toppings in the traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple, green and gold.
In New Orleans, King Cake parties are held throughout the Carnival Season. The person who receives the slice of cake with the baby is asked to continue the festivities by hosting the next King Cake party. So always be careful which piece you take!!
The nice folks over at Randazzo's Camellia City Bakery have graciously offered one lucky reader
a medium traditional king cake package (including baby) baked to perfection! This package includes a unique Randazzo's Mardi Gras theme bag, stuffed with beads, doubloons,the history of Mardi Gras and the king cake, a 2009 commemorative 11x 16 color poster, and a beautiful feather mask.
Randazzo's Camellia City Bakery continues a long family tradition of handmade and braided king cakes and say with heartfelt sincerity that everything at Randazzo's is "made with love from beginning to end."
Randazzo's was even featured on the Food Network's popular program Unwrapped!
I see you drooling! You must want to win a King Cake! Lucky for you, we have one to give away!
Remember we are generously offering you an opportunity to DOUBLE your chances by registering here as well as at The Not So Blog.
How to enter:
1) Visit Randazzo's Camellia City Bakery and tell us which filling you would love to try.
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Contest ends at 11:59pmCST on February 16th. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.
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185 comments:
the flour de lis king cake looks cool
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this looks good and fun too.
The pecan praline filling looks yummy.
I think I'd like mine without a filling but cream cheese sounds good! utgal2004[at]yahoo[dot]com
I would choose either cream cheese or strawberry filling.
Growing up I would have chosen Pecan-Praline, but I'm allergic to pecans now, alas! I think I'd probably choose the mix of cream cheese and pineapple. Thank you for the fun giveaway!
turtle cheesecake, yum
I would love the cream cheese with strawberry.
Thanks so much. What a great tradition these are.
Thanks.
I would love to try the strawberry filling. Thank you for hosting this fun giveaway.
I'd love to try the Cream Cheese filling. Thanks for the review and giveaway!
I don't think I would get a filling-- I think it looks delicious on it's own. But, if push came to shove, I would probably do the pecan prailine.
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I would choose the strawberry filling.
Thanks for the giveaway :)
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Pecan and cream cheese filling--mmmmmm!
The Turtle filling please.
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Oh my the Turtle Cheesecake filling sounds divine.
I would love the pecan praline filling
I'd have to let you choose. It'd be between strawberry or cream cheese (or both?). Looks delicious.
I'm choosing pecan praline... it feels more like New Orleans to me than other fillings and I know it would taste incredible!
I'd love to try the Turtle Cheesecake King Cake, which has Pecan and cream cheese mix filling. asthenight at gmail dot com
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I'd love to try the Turtle Cheesecake King Cake, which has Pecan and cream cheese mix filling.
Thanks for the contest and hope to win. FJones@buckeye-express.com
I would love to try the Fleur de lys king cake with the Pecan praline filling. This is a great giveaway! I'm a french teacher and can't wait for mardi gras!
Pecan Cheesecake filling looks tasty. For the plain fillings...maybe cherry.
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It's a tough call. I would probably choose plain, but the strawberry and pecan praline fillings sound amazing as well!
I would love to try the Lemon filling.
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pecan praline!!!
Pecan Cheesecake (cream cheese) filling looks tasty. For the plain fillings...maybe cherry.
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The turtle sounds yummy.
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Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake looks like a winner to me.
I'd like to try the Turtle Cheesecake one!
I actually wouldn't want any filling, but I'd probably try the cream cheese one.
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Praline Pecan or Cream Cheese/Lemon Mix........it looks luscious!!!
Cream cheese for me. Thanks for the giveaway!
The Turtle cream cheese sounds great.
strawberry sounds good
Oh man, danish with a turtle filling. My mind is ahead of us all, and I'm salivating as we speak. Yum!
The pecan praline filling
Turtle Cheesecake, filling sounds great. We used to live in MS, I miss the celebration of Mardi Gras and King Cakes.
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strawberry filling for me
cream cheese with strawberry sounds wonderful. Thanks for the chance.
Ooh, cream cheese sounds awesome, so does strawberry. Thanks!
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Cream cheese, Turtle Cheesecake, strawberry..oooo they all sound so good!
Pecan Praline sounds yummy. Thanks.
Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake
Pecan praline filling in the King Turtle
The turtle cheesecake King Cake sounds terribly decadent!
Turtle cheesecake sound yummy.
The pecan praline filling sound Tasty !!
strawberry filling
oh yum!
I'd love to try the pecan praline filling!
I am drooling... pecan-praline and cream cheese! Yummy
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the pecan prailine please!
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yum! i would choose the turtle kingcake with pecan praline filling.
The blueberry sounds great to me.
OMG! I want to win so bad.. I was lamenting not having a King Cake this year! Apple filling for me!! :9 Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! eyeslikesugar [at] gmail [dot] com
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Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake is my choice.
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Cream Cheese with Strawberry
Turtle Cheesecake Kingcake
Cream Cheese with Strawberry
I am having a mardigras party for my Red Hat group..what a fun idea! I would pick the pecan praline filling.
Lemon sounds good to me! This is really nostalgic... we used to eat these and have a party when I was in elementary school!
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strawberry!
I'd love to try the Pecan-Praline filling.
Turtle Kingcake
The turtle cheesecake king cake sounds amazing! What's not to love!
I'd probably go for the cream cheese filling.
I would like it either without filling or with cream cheese.
Probably cream cheese w/strawberry
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I would love to try the Cream Cheese filling. Yummy!
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Cream Cheese looks good, as do they all!!!!Thanks!
I would love the raspberry and cream cheese filling...great combination. Thanks for the chance :)
I'm stuck between strawberry and raspberry, both sound so good!
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I love the cream cheese flavor!!
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Apple filling, please!
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The cream cheese or the strawberry sound awesome
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I would like to try the raspberry filling!
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I'd love to try the Cream Cheese filling!
the turtle king cake sounds amazing.. it has a pecan praline filling
Too many I want to try! I think I would choose (don't hold me to this!) pecan-prailine. But, I see there is a half and half option! Thanks for the tasty giveaway!
I'd like to try Cherry.
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The cream cheese filling sounds delicious.
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Apple filling sounds wonderful!
pecan praline filling
The pecan praline filling
Pecan and cream cheese filling sounds scrumptious! thanks!
Pecan Praline for me! Thanks.
Okay, I grew up in the south and the pecan praline would be right up my alley!
Pecan and cream cheese filling
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I'm a cream cheese junkie. They sometimes put so much cream cheese on these that it seems like it's more cream than cake. YUMMY!
the pecan and cream cheese filling looks yummy
Maybe I'm a big dork and don't see it, but I don't see where they are doing fillings right now..le sigh...I love King Cake though
I can't find the fillings either. I tried Foxfire and IE. Reading others comments, I guess I would go with the Cream Cheese.
For some reason, the 'filling' option won't let you remove as 'no filling' selected so I am unable to browse what they have and offer, except for what has already been mentioned. Based on the previous comments I would be really interested in trying the cheese and pecans.
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Oh, I'd have to go with the strawberry filling. Thanks for this great giveaway.
Pecan praline for me--Yum
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Cream Cheese for me!! Yummy! I have to order from this site soon :o) Thanks!!
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I would like to try the cream cheese and strawberry filling!
Cream cheese and strawberry filling looks A M A Z I N G. Yum!!
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I don't see the fillings either but based on previous posts I will say cream cheese. Thanks!
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I don't see any fillings! Under mardi gras cakes, it only shows one option of "no filling".
Looking over some of the postings, I think the cream cheese sounds good!
Lemon & Cream Cheese for me, please. Yummy!
I would pick the cream cheese filling
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I would love to try the cream cheese filling. Yummy!
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Well, i am copying off the previous posters. I couldn't find the fillings on the site. I'd do the pecan praline. I didn't know you could specify fillings for a king cake.
Fillings aren't showing up on the site now, maybe it's too late to order with filling with the rush coming. From the list here, I'd pick the pecan one.
Definitely cream cheese. YUM!!!
Strawberry. Yummy!
I would love to try the strawberry filling and I miss king cake since we moved away from se Texas.
I would love the pecan praline. We lived in New Orleans about twenty years ago and I don't remember so many yummy fillings available. I loved King Cakes!
would love the strawberry filling
turtle cheesecake please!
I've never had a king cake, but they sound delicious! The Turtle Cheesecake King Cake sounds fabulous and that's the filling I'd like to try... first, because I'd like to try all of them!!
These sound so delicious. I would love to try one with Strawberry filling! Thanks!
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The pecan Praline filling sounds great.
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Filling? Talk about gilding the lily! However, I think cream cheese would make a lovely addition, a nice counterpoint to the sweetness of the cinnamon and icing. Boy, doesn't that look good!
I've never had King Cake. I think this would be an excellent time to start! Thank you for an awesome giveaway.
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Strawberry!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
The pecan praline...or the Turtle Cheesecake...there's so many how can I be expected to choose only one? lol
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pecan praline sounds yummy
Turtle cheesecake sounds great!
I think that Strawberry and Cream Cheese filling would be perfect:)
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Oooh I love King Cakes! I usually make a couple for Mardi Gras, but they're a fair amount of work. I'd like someone else to make one for me!
I'm missing something because I can't find a place on their website to pick the filling... there's only a 'no filling' button when I check out the king cakes! Which is perfectly ok - they're delicious without! But I know that cream cheese is a common filling that would be delicious.
the Turtle cheesecake for sure!
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The pecan praline filling makes my mouth water!
Cream CHeese for me, Strawberry for the hub.
Thank you!
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Cream cheese filling but I like more than that, that you offer. skyxsky27(at)gmail.com
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Strawberry would be great.
Pecan & Cream Cheese sounds spot on.
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The Turtle Cheesecake King Cake reads as if its more than yummy !
I would choose the pecan and cream cheese, yum.
If ou make the French style I would like that, but the New Orleans traditional style filled with goodness and a baby is ok also.
Turtle cheesecake sounds like heaven! thanks, justicecw@hotmail.com
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This is probably one of the things I miss most about not living in Louisiana any more.
Cream cheese is my fave filling.
I would like to try Apple Filling.
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Unfortunately I could find no filling option on your website! But after reading through the posts I find I'm torn between the sinful Turtle Cheesecake and the luscious Cream Cheese and Strawberry or Cherry filling! I've always hear about your King Cakes - but never had divine pleasure of savoring one!
Pecan praline sounds wonderful. garrettsambo@aol.com
i have always wanted a king cake
im sorry i searched the site over and over and i didnt find any fillings :(
The pecan praline sounds like the one for me.
pecan
Turtle Cheesecake sounds delicious!
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I am a cream cheese kind of girl!
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turtle cheesecake
I would get the pecan prailine filling. Mmmmmm!
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pecan praline
The cream cheese filling sounds yummy!!
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The Pecan-Praline sounds wonderful.
Turtle cheesecake for me!! Thanks!
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The cream cheese filling is what I would get, Thanks, Godesseablu@msn.com
Pecan praline please.
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The pecan praline filling looks good.
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pecan praline or the cream cheese filling please
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