PEOPLE explores the history of wedding cakes, tracing their evolution from ancient customs to today’s towering, ...

Find out what it means if you’re the one who discovers the king cake baby in your Mardi Gras slice! Fact checked by Emily Estep Mardi Gras (a.k.a., Fat Tuesday) falls each year on the Tuesday before ...

While the world's oldest preserved cake dates back nearly 4,000 years, wedding cakes can be roughly traced back about 2,500 years to Ancient Rome. Some of the earliest known examples of wedding cakes ...

We've all heard of the usual wedding traditions. Something borrowed, something blue is a rhyme any good bridesmaid knows. Throwing the bouquet is an event that single ladies either dread or look ...

It's no question that beyond the bride's entrance and the couple saying "I do," the wedding cake is arguably one of the most anticipated events of a wedding. With layers upon layers of ...

Be it Spain, France or New Orleans, there are plenty of sweet iterations of king cake baked all over the world to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, when, according to western Christianity, the ...

When you think about a traditional wedding reception, the cake is often the first thing that comes to mind. That image of layers of vanilla cake adorned with crisp corners and swirls of Swiss ...

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Ian McNulty, a food culture writer for nola.com about Mardi Gras cakes and the first Mardi Gras king cake bracket. Time to get into the Mardi Gras spirit in this final ...