The galette des rois, celebrating Epiphany, the day the Three Kings visited the infant Jesus, is baked throughout January in France. Composed of two circles of puff pastry sandwiching a frangipani filling, each comes with a crown and always has a trinket, called a fève, or bean, baked into it.
Whoever finds the charm, known as a “féve”, in their slice gets to wear the crown that comes with the tart and then names their king or their queen and then everyone sits down and eats the cake usually with either cider or champagne.
Although la fève used to be a broad bean, it was replaced in around 1870 by a variety of figurines made out of porcelain or – more recently – plastic.
These plastic figurines used to be in the shape of babies to represent Jesus but can now be anything from a car to a shoe.
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