A French Tradition

While eating his cake, Jeff pulled out a small white tile, the kind that might be found on a kitchen wall.  He marched up to the counter and indignantly informed the server that they had baked a tile into his cake.  She broke into a big smile and said, “Oh, you found the prize!  You are the winner!” Then she handed him a paper crown.  He came back to the table with his crown looking confused.

I knew about the galette des rois, “king cake”, but it is a January tradition, and we were just approaching Christmas.  Plus, I had never seen a fève “the baked-in prize” that looked like a kitchen tile – I’m still not sure that it wasn’t just a convenient way to get out of admitting an error.

History of Hiding Items in Cake

It is indeed a tradition to eat pies and cakes…