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If you have any delicious simple recipe/photos of epiphany cake I hope you can share it with me and all our CAF friends here. 
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Recipe? 
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I buy ours every year. The bakery is much better at flaky pastry than I am. This one is filled with frangipane, as are about 90% of all Epiphany cakes of this type in France. In past years weāve had apple-filled Epiphany cakes, and last yearās was filled with both frangipane and apricots.
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I buy ours every year. The bakery is much better at flaky pastry than I am. This one is filled with frangipane, as are about 90% of all Epiphany cakes of this type in France. In past years weāve had apple-filled Epiphany cakes, and last yearās was filled with both frangipane and apricots.
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Even the box and crown looks too beautiful to throw away.
Tis_Bearself
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That looks great. Too bad they donāt ship to USA 
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Wow! Tasty! late_with_cutlery:
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Yeah, weāre really blessed. This bakery has been around for nearly 350 years and is widely considered to be the best in the region. I donāt buy much from them because theyāre kind of expensive, but we only eat one Epiphany cake per year so I figure we can splurge.
The average French person eats Epiphany cake at least three times before the end of January. If I were ingesting that much Epiphany cake I would probably seek a more moderately priced source.
Thatās a door that swings both ways, my friend. :hugs:That looks great. Too bad they donāt ship to USA
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I did find a place in USA that ships something very similar and I might order one 
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Hope you enjoy it! Do they include the little figurine as well?
To be honest, theyāre not hard to make if you use store-bought puff pastry.
To be honest, theyāre not hard to make if you use store-bought puff pastry.
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I think so, but if they donāt, itās okay. Thereās only me to eat the cake.
I got a Mardi Gras king cake for my mother a few years ago and I forgot to tell her about the Baby Jesus figure in the cake and she was quite shocked to discover him. I felt bad about not telling her because she could have choked but it honestly just slipped my mind as I had kind of a hassle getting the cake shipped to her.
I got a Mardi Gras king cake for my mother a few years ago and I forgot to tell her about the Baby Jesus figure in the cake and she was quite shocked to discover him. I felt bad about not telling her because she could have choked but it honestly just slipped my mind as I had kind of a hassle getting the cake shipped to her.
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Oh, oops! 
Glad she didnāt choke on baby Jesusā¦
See, I would love to have a king cake shipped here. I know there are bakeries that do this but the shipping fee must be exorbitant.
Besides, if it was a hassle sending a king cake to your mom, imagine the hoops Iād have to jump through to get one delivered to me.
Anyone who tells me to just make it myself doesnāt understand how inept I am with baking yeast.
Glad she didnāt choke on baby Jesusā¦See, I would love to have a king cake shipped here. I know there are bakeries that do this but the shipping fee must be exorbitant.
Besides, if it was a hassle sending a king cake to your mom, imagine the hoops Iād have to jump through to get one delivered to me.Anyone who tells me to just make it myself doesnāt understand how inept I am with baking yeast.
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I love the way the word āmoistā is bolded, underlined and larger than the surrounding text 
Here what the inside of the Epiphany cake looks like. Mmmm, frangipaneā¦
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We havenāt found the hidden figurine yet so no king or queen has been crowned. Weāll try again this evening.
(Surely tonightās the night, as youāre looking at the two remaining servingsā¦itās gotta be in there somewhere. 
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Here what the inside of the Epiphany cake looks like. Mmmm, frangipaneā¦
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We havenāt found the hidden figurine yet so no king or queen has been crowned. Weāll try again this evening.
(Surely tonightās the night, as youāre looking at the two remaining servingsā¦itās gotta be in there somewhere. )
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It looks very BIG!
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Optical illusion, my friend. 
Uncut, the cake measured about 7" in diameter (18cm) and 1ā
" at its thickest point (4Ā¼cm). This was the four-serving version. The smallest this bakery sells serves one, while the largest serves six. Bizarrely, there is no two-serving size. :woman_shrugging:t2:
Uncut, the cake measured about 7" in diameter (18cm) and 1ā
" at its thickest point (4Ā¼cm). This was the four-serving version. The smallest this bakery sells serves one, while the largest serves six. Bizarrely, there is no two-serving size. :woman_shrugging:t2:
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Iāve never had three kings cake not even once and I feel dejected about that.
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Awww :hugs:
All you need to fix that is two sheets of puff pastry and something to put between them (frangipane, applesauceā¦even some sort of pie filling would work as long as itās fairly thick).
All you need to fix that is two sheets of puff pastry and something to put between them (frangipane, applesauceā¦even some sort of pie filling would work as long as itās fairly thick).
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Oh ok. Apricots and frangipane sound nice together. Iāve never used puff pastry though.
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I donāt know how puff pastry is sold outside of France 
Here, you buy it in the refrigerated section. Leave it at room temperature for five minutes, take it out of its tube and unroll itā¦presto, ready to fill. To make an Epiphany cake, youād do the same thing then remove the parchment paper backing once youād placed the pastry on top of the first (filled) sheet.
Here, you buy it in the refrigerated section. Leave it at room temperature for five minutes, take it out of its tube and unroll itā¦presto, ready to fill. To make an Epiphany cake, youād do the same thing then remove the parchment paper backing once youād placed the pastry on top of the first (filled) sheet.
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I think itās sold similarly here. I havenāt paid attention really.
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I grew up in the US. The fact that I donāt know how puff pastry is sold there shows you how little attention I paid to it over the course of thirty years :crazy_face:
Hereās a pretty straightforward recipe using homemade frangipane:
cooking.nytimes.com
To be honest, I prefer the frangipane-apricot filling to pure frangipane, but The Husband only ever wants frangipane so we did it his way this time.
Hereās a pretty straightforward recipe using homemade frangipane:
Galette des Rois Recipe
The galette des rois, celebrating Epiphany, the day the Three Kings (les rois) 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 fĆØve, or bean, baked...
To be honest, I prefer the frangipane-apricot filling to pure frangipane, but The Husband only ever wants frangipane so we did it his way this time.
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