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Family Friendly Mardi Gras Guide – Baton Rouge and Beyond

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Contrary to popular belief, Mardi Gras can be a Family Friendly Mardi Gras, especially in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. The festival seems like it was made for children, with creative floats, costumes and masks, bold colors, and joyous music. Not to mention, the beads, doubloons, and other treats thrown to the crowds from the floats are a child’s delight. Sadly, due to COVID, this year’s parades have been canceled, but there’s still plenty of Mardi Gras goodness to be had! Below you’ll find a round-up of our most popular Mardi Gras themed posts. 

Family Friendly Mardi Gras

 

Family-Friendly Mardi Gras Parades Canceled for 2021

Family Friendly Mardi Gras

 

Your guide to King Cakes in Baton Rouge & Beyond

 

Mardi Gras Activity Book – Free Printable 

Mardi Gras Activity Book

 

Top 5 Baton Rouge King Cakes

Your guide to King Chakes in Baton Rouge

 

Floats in the Oaks – Drive-thru Carnival attraction in City Park

Floats in the Oaks

 

Mardi Gras Mask Craft 

More Mardi Gras Articles: 

Gluten-Free King Cake Recipe – Baton Rouge Family Fun

Easy Boudin King Cake – Mardi Gras Recipe (Video)

Shannon’s Sugah Shack – Mardi Gras Family Pack Giveaway

Holly Clegg’s Kid-Friendly Easy Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe

 

Holly Clegg’s Kid-Friendly Easy Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe

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Holly Clegg was one of our greatest supporters. She shared many recipes and resources with Baton Rouge Family Fun. We hope they will continue to be enjoyed by families in Baton Rouge and beyond for years to come. Below is one of her posts from 2018, it’s a community favorite and it’s so darn good!! We hope you enjoy it. 

 Even if you’re limited on time, I promise my crescent roll Kid-Friendly Easy Mardi Gras King Cake recipe will be worth the 15 minutes it takes to make it.  No time-consuming yeast dough but all the richness of the best king cake you have ever put in your mouth!

I know I made an impression with this easy king cake recipe when my five-year-old grandson gave me a stack of cut out king cake newspaper ads and told me he knew I would want them.  You probably have seen, Clegg, on my Facebook Live videos cooking with me. I realized cooking with him has become a teaching moment too.  

Who doesn’t like king cakes?  We are so fortunate in Baton Rouge to have some of the best king cakes but I have been told my crescent roll king cake recipe is “just as good (if not better) than at the bakeries!” With reduced-fat crescent rolls, reduced-fat cream cheese, cinnamon and sugar, and a little icing, this is a lighter trim and terrific king cake recipe that can be made wherever you live.  However, all the rage is my new savory and sensational Crawfish King Cake with a scrumptious creamy crawfish filling topped with Mardi Gras colored Parmesan cheese. Sweet or savory, this king cake recipe will be your go-to recipe this carnival season! Having company—check out my easy Mardi Gras Menu filled with recipes and tips.

Kid-Friendly Easy Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe

How To Make My Kid-Friendly Easy Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe:  Fun Cooking!  

Cooking With Kids:

  • Teaches you to follow directions
  • Measurements teach you math
  • Learn your colors + red and blue make purple
  • Instant gratification with finished recipe
  • Cooking gives kid’s confidence

Easy King Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Cinnamon Filling from Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook

My most popular king cake recipe known as a crescent roll king cake! You can leave out the cream cheese filling if you have picky eaters or sometimes I put half with cream cheese filling and half plain.  Here are photos of the steps of how to make a king cake.

Makes 16 servings

2 (8-ounce) cans of reduced-fat crescent rolls
4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
2 tablespoons confectioners sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Mardi Gras Icing (see recipe below)

  1. Preheat oven 350°F. Coat 10-inch round pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray.
    2. Separate crescent rolls at perforations, into 16 slices. Place slices around the prepared pan with points in the center. About halfway down from points, press seams together.
    3. In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Spread on dough in the center where seams have been pressed together.
    4. In another small bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over cream cheese. Fold dough points over filling and then fold the bottom of the triangle over points forming a circular roll like a king cake.
    5. Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly and drizzle with colored Mardi Gras Icing.

Mardi Gras Icing:

1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1-2 tablespoons skim milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Yellow, green, red, and blue food coloring.

  1. In a small bowl, combine all ingredients, except food color. Divide mixture into three bowls
    2. In the first bowl, add a few drops of yellow food coloring and in the second bowl, add a few drops of green food coloring. In third bowl, add equal amounts of drops of red and blue food coloring (to create purple). Drizzle over baked cake.

Nutritional information per serving: Calories 184 Calories from fat 36% Fat 7 g Saturated Fat 3 g Cholesterol 9 mg Sodium 275 mg Carbohydrate 26 g Dietary Fiber 0 g Sugars 16 g Protein 3 g Diabetic Exchanges 11/2 carbohydrate 11/2 fat

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Be sure to check out Baton Rouge Family Fun’s 2021 King Cake Guide here! 

Easy Boudin King Cake – Mardi Gras Recipe (Video)

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I’m Jennifer Oster, local Baton Rouge Mom and business owner. My husband and I love to cook, and we recently started a YouTube channel to share our passion for cooking with the world! Our specialty is Louisiana/Cajun/local food.  This Easy Boudin King Cake is always a hit during Mardi Gras season; it’s stuffed with boudin, pepper jack cheese, and topped with pepper jelly, green onions, and bacon. To save time, this recipe uses pre-made dough! It looks impressive, but it’s a super easy recipe. 
 
Traditionally, boudin (pronounced BOO-DAN, not BOO-DEN) is made with ground pork, rice, onion, green peppers, and Cajun spices and seasonings, left to the boudin creator’s own devices. 
 
I hope you enjoy this savory pastry that marries two Bayou State classics.
 

Easy Boudin King Cake – Mardi Gras Recipe

Easy Boudin King Cake - Mardi Gras Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 cans crescent roll dough 
  •  1 pound boudin, de-cased and cooked until warm 
  • About 4 ounces (half of a block) pepper jack cheese 
  • 4-5Green onions 
  • 4-5 slices of cooked and crumbled bacon 
  • Pepper jelly 

Instructions

Arrange dough on a greased baking pan in the shape of an oval. Fill the ring with cooked boudin and top with slices of cheese. Roll the sides to form the ring and pinch together. Bake at 375 for 12-20 minutes, until golden brown, then, top with pepper jelly, green onions, bacon, and bake another few minutes until pepper jelly is semi-melted. Serve warm. It can be refrigerated and reheated!
 
Easy Boudin King Cake – Mardi Gras Recipe
 
This would be a great recipe to make with kids! If you decide to try your hand at it, please be sure to tag us so we can see your masterpiece! Use the Hashtag #BRFamilyFun and tag us on Facebook and Instagram!
 

Visit the Oster Adventures YouTube channel for more recipes! 

Be sure to check out Baton Rouge Family Fun’s 2021 King Cake Guide here! 

 
 

Gluten Free King Cake Recipe – Baton Rouge Family Fun

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I pride myself on being a solid scratch baker: Alton Brown practically raised me, for Pete’s sake, not to mention I audited an online Food Science class from Harvard one semester (hair flip). Harvard, people! So when I was tasked with developing a recipe for gluten-free king cake, I wasn’t intimidated. How hard could it be, I know how to bake!

As it would turn out, I do NOT know how to bake without gluten.

Gluten-Free King Cake

Test after test came out dry, crumbly. Disappointing. Just when I had decided I never wanted to see Bob’s Red Mill 1-To-1 baking flour again, I realized: I was going about it all wrong. I was trying to force my favorite king cake recipes to be gluten-free, rather than find a great gluten-free recipe that I could then make my own. Off to the internet I went.

I quickly became overwhelmed by expensive, unfamiliar ingredients. Whey protein isolate? Tapioca starch? Potato flour? If I were looking to get into the gluten-free baking market professionally, investing in these might have made sense. But all I really wanted was to occasionally be able to make a good king cake for my friends.

After some thought, it finally dawned on me: what was simple, comparably inexpensive, and easily accessible? Bread mix! After all, what is king cake, after you strip it of all the flavors, fillings, and toppings? Just mildly sweet, soft, bread.

I used Hodgson Mill gluten-free white bread mix because it was convenient to pick up at my local supermarket, but this recipe is straight-forward enough to work with whatever your favorite may be. For best results, it should be the kind that stays loose, like the consistency of a thick cake batter. I hope you enjoy creating your own homemade gluten-free king cake and would love to hear about the results!

Gluten-Free King Cake

[yumprint-recipe id=’43’]Gluten-Free King CakeThe Little Things Cakes is a home-based bakery owned and operated by Christy Broady. It was founded in 2016 when increasing demand for her baked goods inspired Christy to go into business on her own. In the three years since starting, Christy has grown from making a few dozen cupcakes here and there to several elaborate cakes a month. With her sophisticated flavors and impeccable attention to detail, Christy can’t wait to show you why it’s the little things that will truly make your next event special.

Be sure to check out our full 2021 King Cake Guide here!

Top 5 Baton Rouge King Cakes

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King Cake truly is the demise of many New Year’s resolutions, but how can we resist this buttery danish pastry, sweetened with dusted sugar, icing and a plethora of flavored fillings? Not us! Here are the top 5 King Cakes in Baton Rouge according to YOU, Baton Rouge moms! Enjoy this trail of delicious King Cakes, try them all to decide the best for yourself. 

Thee Heavenly Donut – Home of the BOUDIN king cake and Pecan Praline, Banana Foster, Turtle, LA Cajun Mud, Strawberry, and famous Fried King Cakes! Owned by a fellow Baton Rouge mom, THEE HEAVENLY Donut’s mission is to offer the freshest (made daily), handmade donuts, kolaches, king cakes, cupcakes, and specialty cakes– all year round. Owners Kara and Shane Castille have a passion for great customer service and treating their customers like family. Their products are like no other in the greater Baton Rouge area!
Baton Rouge King Cake

Oak Point Fresh Market – You can stop by both Watson and Central to grab a specialty King Cake!! Baked fresh daily. Flavors include Chantilly, Black Forest, Caramel Apple Heath, Turtle King Cake, and more! 

 

Rouses – Rouses king cakes are made with their exclusive gourmet cinnamon dough, iced, and sprinkled with decorative sugars in the carnival colors of purple (for justice), green (for faith), and gold (for power).  

Baton Rouge King Cake

Calandro’s – With over 50 flavors to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect King Cake at Calandro’s! The new flavor for 2019 is an exciting one.  In 2018, Calandro’s started making their own Italian cookies, so of course, they had to infuse a King Cake with Italian Cookie goodness.  So the brand new “Little Italy” Gourmet flavor now has Italian cookie crumbles inside and crumbled on top along with a Fig & Bavarian Creme fill combo that is to die for!

Randazzo’s  – Your source for the original Randazzo family mardi gras king cake. You can get your Baton Rouge Randazzo’s at Carnival Mart off Florida BLVD and at Capital City Crawfish! Every cake is “hand-braided” and baked fresh daily. Their traditional King Cake is cinnamon flavored, colored with Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold, iced with our just made icing, and festively decorated with candy non-pariels. Each cake contains a baby. King Cakes are complemented by Cream Cheese, Strawberry Cream Cheese, and Pecan Praline. They pump the filling into the braids of the cake before it is baked.
Randazzos King Cake Baton Rouge
Carnival Mart
8696 Florline Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA  70815
225-248-9720

Honorable Mention

Ambrosia – There are many options when it comes to The Ambrosia King Cake!  The Traditional King Cake (shown here for an “In-Store Pickup”) has cinnamon and sugar inside of our family secret King Cake dough.  Purchase a “Mardi Gras King Cake Kit” and take your King Cake home for the kids to decorate and have a Mardi Gras Party! 
Best Baton Rouge King Cake

Ralph’s Market -A locally owned business, Ralph’s Market wants the best for our families and yours. That’s why we always offer a large selection of freshhigh-qualityty products that includes many grown right here in Louisiana! We‘d love to serve you at any of our three convenient and friendly locations in Gonzales, at Pelican Point, and on Jones’ Creek in Baton Rouge.

Ralph's Supermarkey King Cake Baton Rouge
Gambino’s – In New Orleans and around the world, Gambino’s Bakery is a household tradition that offers over sixty-five years of experience with delicious baked goods.
Gambino's King-Cake Baton Rouge

Alexander’s Highland Market – Gluten-sensitive? Cutting back on carbs? Trying to follow a keto diet? Along with their regular king cakes, Alexander’s is catering to you this Mardi Gras season!  Alexander’s Highland Market is partnering with Eat Fit BR to provide 100 percent all natural, gluten-friendly, low-carb, keto-friendly king cakes for those whose dietary restrictions prevent them in indulging in the traditional Mardi Gras desserts. The cakes are also soy-free, preservative-free, and have no added sugar.

Baton Rouge King Cake

Be sure to check out Baton Rouge Family Fun’s 2021 King Cake Guide here! 

 

 

Top 5 King Cakes in Baton Rouge

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 The holidays may have ended for some, but ours continues with Mardi Gras! It’s King’s Day and the start of the Mardi Gras season. King Cake truly is the demise of many New Year’s resolutions, but how can we resist this buttery danish pastry, sweetened with dusted sugar, icing and a plethora of flavored fillings? Not us!

We asked you to share your favorite Baton Rouge area King Cakes and you did, with over 70 recommendations! Here are the top 5 places to get King Cake according to YOU, Baton Rouge Moms! Enjoy this trail of delicious King Cakes and try them all before Mardi Gras to decide the best for yourself.  😉
Best King Cake in Baton Rouge
 

Top 5 King Cakes in Baton Rouge:

  1. Randazzo’s King Cake – Your source for the original Randazzo family mardi gras king cake. You can get your Baton Rouge Randazzo’s at Carnival Mart off Florida BLVD and at Capital City Crawfish! “A Tradition in Baking” is what Nonna’s is all about. Every cake is “hand-braided” and baked fresh daily. Their traditional King Cake is cinnamon flavored, colored with Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold, iced with our just made icing and festively decorated with candy non-pariels. Each cake contains a baby. king Cakes are complemented by Cream Cheese, Strawberry Cream Cheese and Pecan Praline. They pump the filling into the braids of the cake before it is baked.
    Randazzo King Cake Baton Rouge
    Carnival Mart
    8696 Florline Blvd.
    Baton Rouge, LA  70815
    225-248-9720
  2. Calandro’s King Cake– With over 50 flavors, you’re sure to find the perfect King Cake at Calandro’s, learn more in the video below!
                

  3. Oak Point Fresh Market – You can stop by both Watson and Central to grab a specialty King Cake!! Baked fresh daily.
    Oak Point Fresh Market King Cake
  4. Ambrosia & Thee Heavenly Donut tied for fourth place! Ambrosia – There are many options when it comes to The Ambrosia King Cake!  The Traditional King Cake (shown here for an “In-Store Pickup”) has cinnamon and sugar inside of our family secret King Cake dough.  Purchase a “Mardi Gras King Cake Kit” and take your King Cake home for the kids to decorate and have a Mardi Gras Party! 
    Best Baton Rouge King CakeThee Heavenly Donut – Home of the BOUDIN kingcake and Pecan praline, Banana Foster, Turtle, LA Cajun Mud, Strawberry OH MY!!!!!
    Thee Heavenly Donut King Cake Baton Rouge
  5. LeBlanc’s – Said to have bigger cakes with more filling, you can get your fresh Kings Cakes at all LeBlanc’s stores or have them shipped!
    LeBlanc's King Cake Baton Rouge

Honorable Mention: – Mentioned multiple times in our poll were…
Ralph’s Market
Ralph's Supermarkey King Cake Baton Rouge

Gambino’s
Gambino's King-Cake Baton Rouge

Another Piece of Cake
Another Piece of Cake King Cake Baton RougeBe sure to check out our complete Mardi Gras Guide with parade schedule, full list of King Cake locations, Mardi Gras tips for the family and more!
Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Guide

Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Guide

Your guide to Mardi Gras King Cakes in Baton Rouge

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We’ve just finished up Christmas 2015 and welcomed in the new year, it’s time to celebrate new beginnings and count down to more fun! We’ll barely have time to catch our breath from the New Year celebration before Mardi Gras 2016 is in full swing! We’re sure you’ve noticed that King Cakes are already at your favorite local markets and bakeries so we thought it best to kick off our Mardi Gras Guide with a Guide to King Cakes in Baton Rouge.

On the Christian calendar, the 12th day after Christmas is celebrated as the date that the gift-bearing Magi visited the baby Jesus. This day, January 6, is known by several names, including “Epiphany”, “Twelfth Night”, or “Kings Day”. The King Cake is a traditional reenactment of Epiphany, the day the Magi arrived in Bethlehem and presented gifts to baby Jesus the twelfth night after his birth. I tried my very first king cake while living abroad in Toulouse, France. “Epiphany cakes” are found throughout Europe–in England, it is known as a Twelfth Night cake, Roscón de reyes or rosca de reyes (kings’ ring) is a Spanish and Latin American King Cake pastry and in France, the King Cake is known as the Gteau De Rois. All very similar and all delicious!

Your guide to King Cakes in Baton Rouge

There are numerous places to get king cake and a plethora of flavors to choose from… Traditional, Cream-cheese, Chocolate, Praline, Strawberry, Apple,  Raspberry to Bacon, Boudin and Maple! Below we’ve listed twenty places where you can get your King Cake fix. Check back at the end of the week to see the top 5 from the list via our Facebook poll!

Your guide to Mardi Gras King Cake in Baton Rouge:

Your guide to Mardi Gras King Cake in Baton Rouge:

  1. Alexander’s – 18111 Highland Market Drive – Phone: 615-7800
  2. Ambrosia Bakery – 8546 Siegen Lane – Phone: 763-6489
  3. Another Piece of Cake – 14112 Greenwell Springs Rd. Central, LA Phone: 810-3377
  4. Baums – Florida Blvd Location 8046 Florida Blvd. Phone: 927-0760 – Perkins Road Location 10550 Perkins Rd. Phone: 767-4838
  5. Brew Ha Ha – 711 Jefferson Hwy Suite 2-A – Phone: 923-1923
  6. Cake Jewels – King Cake Balls – Phone: 337-0253
  7. Calandro’s – Government Street: 383-7815 • Perkins Road: 767-6659
  8. Cupcake Allie – 753 Perkins Road, Suite #6 Phone: 302-7096
  9. Daily Donut – Gonzales– 12503 Airline Hwy
  10. Gambino’s– 8646 Goodwood Blvd – Phone: 928-7000
  11. Gourmet Girls– 3025 Perkins Rd – Phone: 252-0999
  12. LeBlanc’s – 8 locations in Louisiana
  13. 11826 Coursey Blvd – Phone: 293-8115
  14. Thee Heavenly Donut– 17732 Highland Rd – 753.7711 5830 –  S. Sherwood Forest Blvd. – 368.0090 – 15507 Hwy 44 Gonzales – 622.7797
  15. Mr. Ronnies– 216 Lee Dr, Ste D Phone: 223-6116
  16. My Sugar Belle– 5151 Plank Rd, Ste 42 Phone: 355-8080
  17. Nanette Mayhall Phone: 343-4530.
  18. NY Bagel– 8342 Perkins Rd – Phone: 218-6070
  19. Oak Point Fresh Market – Watson and Central locations
  20. Ralphs– 15013 Hwy 44 Gonzales – 622-4044 – 6576 Jones Creek Road – 752-1004 – 6431 Hwy 44 (Pelican Point) Gonzales – 473-1004
  21. Randazzos– You can get your Baton Rouge Randazzo’s at Carnival Mart off Florida BLVD and at Capital City Crawfish!
  22. Strands Cafe– 226 LAUREL ST.- Phone: 344-5346
  23. Tiger Deaux-Nuts– 5162 Government St Phone: 421-1091

These are not the only places to find King Cake in the Baton Rouge area but this is a great start! If we have missed one of your favorites, please let us know in the comments below. Check our Facebook page for King Cake giveaways and be sure to check back for our Mardi Gras Parade Guide, tomorrow!
Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Guide

20 Sweet & Savory King Cake Inspired Treats

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Our stores are overflowing with the goodness of King Cake and this year it seems we can find menagerie of King Cake flavors and styles, including Bouudin! The King Cake has evolved from its humble roots, inspiring a plethora of savory foods, sweets and treats… making this the ultimate Mardi Gras food! Below we are featuring our favorites from Mardi Gras 2015!

king cake parfait

The King Cake parfait can be found at Dessert Lounge. (Photo: Indulge Desserts)

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the above doesn’t have your mouth watering or at least feeling a virtual sugar rush…nothing will! Enjoy the last days of the Mardi Gras season and go get you some King Cake before it’s too late!

Here is a Baton Rouge King Cake Guide: Interact with a video map to find your Mardi Gras fix!

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