King Cake rant

My 15 year old is quite the baker, and started making home made king cakes a year ago. We invited folks over for a king cake party last year and we had about a dozen king cakes that we got at the king cake hub and brought back to Houston. We slipped her home made king cakes in among the Randazzo’s, Haydel’s, Hi-Ho, Rouses, etc. and people were blown away by how good it was (the secret is that is was fresh unlike all the other king cakes that had been made a day prior to being delivered to the king cake hub, and then were with me for a day as we traveled home to Houston).

This year a couple of friends asked her if she could make them king cakes for the season, and that they would pay her (one offered $40 the other $50). Now she has it in her head that she is going to turn our home kitchen into her personal bakery, and sell king cakes from now through Mardi Gras.

She asked me how much she should charge and I just told her to cover her costs and add $20 for labor. That might be low, but what do I know, and what does it matter to her since it’s all under the table anyway.

Kids and king cakes are wild. Mix the two together and you have a damn good time on your hands.