People are known to find Jesus in the strangest ways. In their toast or eggs; you can also buy a grilled cheese sandwich. Since it only appears in food, it makes sense that one of these ways would be in a cake, because Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, is the last day to eat King's Cake before the start of Lent. The King Cake accompanies parades and parties to pay homage to the Epiphany, the day the Three Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem and presented gifts to the baby Jesus on the twelfth night after his birth. The cake is considered a re-enactment of the Epiphany, usually a bean or child figurine baked into the cake to represent Christ and is eaten during Carnival celebrations. History shows that King Cake has its roots in Christianity; however, it can be traced back further to a particular Roman pagan festival known as Saturnalia. Held within the Roman Empire, Saturnalia was an ancient festival to honor Saturn, an agricultural deity said to have ruled the world in the Golden Age. At the time, beans were thought to contain magic. ...