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  • Where to find King Cake and Paczki this Fat Tuesday

    Where to find King Cake and Paczki this Fat Tuesday


    Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday: The day before Ash Wednesday goes by multiple names and is celebrated with different foods around the world. In Phoenix, those looking to honor tradition with a tasty treat have options for sweet cakes and doughnuts including Louisianna-style king cake, Polish paczki, and Ukranian ponchiki. Here’s where to stock up for the holiday.

    All Pierogi

    1245 W. Baseline Road, #101-103, Mesa

    While best known for its pierogi, this Mesa restaurant and market is gearing up for a busy day on Tuesday. All Pierogi serves ponchiki, a variety of fried and filled doughnuts stuffed with raspberry, apricot or plum filling. Online pre-ordering is encouraged and available at the restaurant’s website. 

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    A to Z Polish Market in Surprise draws customers from around the Valley.

    A to Z Polish Market

    A to Z Polish Market

    17221 North Litchfield Road, #50, Surprise

    623-444-5885

    In the West Valley, A to Z Polish Market started celebrating on Thursday for Polish Paczki Day. Customers flocked for the golden glazed doughnuts. Luckily for anyone who didn’t make it last week, the market will be making paczki again for Fat Tuesday. Fillings will include plum butter, rosehip marmalade, raspberry and vanilla custard. Get in line when the bakery opens at 9:30 a.m. for your best chance to snag a few.

    Bashas’

    Multiple Locations

    Grocery store chain Bashas‘ prides itself on making fresh paczki from scratch to sell at its neighborhood markets on Fat Tuesday. White and red cardboard boxes of the sugar-dusted and jelly-filled treats have become synonymous with the holiday in metro Phoenix. At Bashas’, the doughnuts are glazed or sugared and come filled with lemon, raspberry, custard, chocolate custard or raisins. They are sold individually and by the half dozen. Bashas’ will have the boxes available starting at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and also plans to donate 10% of paczki sales to Saint Vincent De Paul. This year, Bashas’ will also sell King Cakes on Fat Tuesday, decorated in the traditional colors of green, gold and purple.

    Europa Pastry

    7575 North 16th Street

    602-368-7148

    Europa Pastry, a small bakery located on 16th Street in north Phoenix, has multiple sweet options for Fat Tuesday. Stop by from 8 a.m. onwards and pick up some jelly-filled paczki, sliced versions stacked with cream and strawberries and dusted with powdered sugar, or a brightly colored king cake.

    Honey Moon Sweets Bakery & Dessert Bar

    606 W. Southern Ave. #1, Tempe

    Family-owned Tempe bakery Honey Moon Sweets is gearing up for a King Cake-filled week. Preorders are available online for the colorful cream cheese-filled breads, which will be available through Feb. 17. The bakery also serves a daily selection of sweet treats perfect for any Mardi Gras gathering.





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  • Mardi Gras King Cake Sales Top 500,000 and Growing – Secret Easy King Cake Recipe Revealed

    Mardi Gras King Cake Sales Top 500,000 and Growing – Secret Easy King Cake Recipe Revealed

    500,000 Mardi Gras Celebrants Can’t Be Wrong when it Comes to King Cakes. Million Cookbook Selling Author Holly Clegg Gives Away the Secret Recipe to This Time Honored Tradition.

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    updated: Feb 2, 2016


    Baton Rouge, LA, February 2, 2016 (Newswire.com)
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    ​​If you’ve ever been to Mardi Gras, anywhere in the Southern United States, and most certainly in Louisiana, then you understand the overwhelming significance of the King Cake! 

    Representative of the Epiphany, when done properly King Cake not only is a shared experience for friends and family in celebration, but can be a revelation of the finer points of culinary bakery skills.

    @PastorJoelle (From IL) Beautiful King Cakes! My favorite recipe comes from Holly Clegg: We taste-tested your recipe against a yeast-based recipe and a store bought cake. Yours won easily!! — from Twitter.

    Pastor Joelle, cookbook fan

    Holly Clegg, author of the Gulf Coast Favorites Cookbook, (use discount code LA25 for 25% off) specializes in the best of Louisiana and Southern Cuisine, made Trim and Terrific.  Holly Clegg’s Mardi Gras King Cake recipe has been proclaimed as “even better than ones you purchase in the bakery.” 

    “The history and tradition of the King Cake make it a special part of Southern Culture and our appreciation for food and family,” commented Clegg, “I want to share this time perfected recipe with everyone who can’t be here with us to celebrate Mardi Gras.”  Here’s the king cake recipe  with step by step photos  on how to make in your own home.

    According to the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau  “More than 500,000 King Cakes are sold each year in New Orleans between January 6 and Fat Tuesday, and another 50,000 are shipped out-of-state via overnight courier.”  Without a doubt the Mardi Gras King Cake is one of the most popular foods of Mardi Gras (time-honored tradition beginning when people celebrated the arrival of the Three Kings, who brought gifts to baby Jesus on Twelfth Night (the end of Christmas and the beginning of Epiphany). 

    Along with giving special gifts to children, the custom became to eat a special kind of Cake for the celebration, which originally was a simple ring of dough.  

    Over the years, the King Cake has had different shapes, but today the most popular King Cake is shaped in a ring of braided dough with cinnamon. 

    Before baking the dough, a plastic baby is inserted inside the dough to represent baby Jesus.  The colors of Mardi Gras, purple (justice) green (faith) and yellow (power) decorate the King Cake.  If you are the lucky one to be served the piece with the baby you are crowned King or Queen of the evening, and also responsible for next year’s cake. 

    “A friend of mine asked me several years ago when she found the figurine and took on the responsibility of the next year’s cake to share with her my secret family recipe.  This year she suggested that I share it with everyone who can’t be here for the celebration,” commented Clegg.

    Social Media is abuzz about Clegg’s much lauded King Cake Recipe.

    @PastorJoelle (From IL) Beautiful King Cakes! My favorite recipe comes from Holly Clegg:  We taste-tested your recipe against a yeast-based recipe and a store bought cake. Yours won easily!!  — from Twitter.

    This highly anticipated King Cake season begins on Twelfth Night (January 6) and ends on Mardi Gras (always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday).   A King Cake, festive and delicious, is a memorable food during the carnival season. Here’s an easy, kid-friendly King Cake recipe made with crescent rolls to celebrate Mardi Gras wherever you live! Clegg’s blog also includes easy, healthier Mardi Gras recipes at http://thehealthycookingblog.com

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