Melody over at elé Cake Company says they are “ready to bake these delicious seasonal treats starting Monday, January 6th, in celebration of Three Kings Day. We learned our craft from a bakery in the deep south, and we can’t wait to make these special cakes again!”
Here are the flavors they offer:
- Apple
- Bavarian Cream
- Berry Deluxe (Raspberry, Strawberry, Blueberry with Cream Cheese)
- Blueberry
- Blueberry Cream Cheese
- Cherry
- Cherry Cream Cheese
- Chocolate
- Chocolate & Bavarian Cream
- Cinnamon Cream
- Cream Cheese
- German Chocolate
- Italian Cream Cheese
- Key Lime
- Lemon
- Lemon Cream Cheese
- Mississippi Mud
- Pecan Praline
- Raspberry
- Raspberry Cream Cheese
- Raspberry Amaretto
- Strawberry
- Strawberry Cream Cheese
- Strawberry Bavarian
Pricing starts at $20.99 and you can place your order on their website.
You can also order a King Cake at Beavercreek’s Cake, Hope, and Love.
Ashley’s Pastry Shop in Oakwood also does King Cakes. Made with a rich, brioche dough and a wide variety of fillings, including cinnamon, chocolate and cream cheese. The cake is baked without a center, like a traditional bundt cake, but has a glaze topped with gold, green and purple sprinkles
Dorothy Lane Market is another good place to pick up a King Cake. Therer cakes come with festive beads and a small plastic baby, to hide in the cake. They usually stock them closer to Fat Tuesday, which this year is March 4th.
King cake is only eaten during the Carnival season — which begins 12 days after Christmas on Epiphany, the twelfth night of Christmas — and ends on Mardi Gras Day. Mardi Gras — which literally translates to “Fat Tuesday” — is always the day before Ash Wednesday. King cake tends to be a brioche-like dough swirled with cinnamon and cream cheese, braided and then baked into a circular or oval ring — to resemble a king’s crown — and finished with icing and sprinkles. Sometimes king cakes are filled or topped with fruit, and there’s typically a plastic baby inside these ones, too. The plastic baby is reportedly meant to symbolize baby Jesus. Whoever finds the baby — or whatever hidden item is baked or embedded in the cake — in their slice is crowned “king” for the day. Tradition says hat getting the baby means they have to provide the next king cake or host the next party — so the celebrations continue throughout the season.
You’ve got until Sun, Feb 19th to order your cake for pick up on Tuesday. Place your order online 
