In this New Orleans version of The Gingerbread Man, the King Cake Baby, a small figure that is traditionally baked inside a king cake during Carnival season, escapes and encounters various local characters as he runs across the French Quarter, heading for the Mississippi River. Includes a recipe for king cake.
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Folklore
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Louisiana, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Creole, Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Bi/Multiracial/Mixed Race, White/European American/Caucasian
Character Prominence: Secondary