Also, some bakers have now taken the liberty to offer king cakes for other holidays that immediately surround Mardi Gras season, such as green and red-icing king cakes for Christmas, red and pink-icing cakes for Valentine's Day, and green and white-icing cakes for St . Patrick's Day.
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Katy Butler and Martha Bridegam cq have sent an excerpt from " Such, Such Were the Joys, " in which Orwell described his days at Eton on scholarship : " It was usual for each boy, on his birthday, to have a large iced cake with candles that was shared out at tea between the whole school.
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You need a knife to cut through it at the very least, and I regret to say that I have come across iced cakes which would have been easier to get into with a pneumatic drill . ( But then, I am not a cake-fancier at the best of times . ) Do you really need an implement to open up your ice-cream?