Epiphany King Figurine for a King Cake. Kingcake is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season - on January 6th. What started out as a dry French bread type dough with sugar on top and a bean inside 30 years ago, is now a sweet, sugary and iced Danish type dough that is braided with cinnamon inside and a plastic king underneath.

The cake has a small plastic king or queen inside and the person who gets the piece of cake with the king figurine has various privileges and obligations on that day.