Inside the cake is a trinket of some sort and whoever ends up with the trinket in their piece of cake is suppose to have special privileges, wear the crown, and can also choose their queen. The type of cake various in France depending on what part of the country you live in (north or south). Our cake consisted of flaky puff pastry layers with an almond flavored filling.
After the cake was cut into 4 pieces (the number of people present), Emma, got to decide who got what piece of cake since she was the youngest person present. It was fun to eat the cake and keep looking at each other to see who had the prize. Having no idea what to expect or how big the trinket would be, I was eating slowly and kept looking at my piece of cake.
So who had the trinket? Was it me?
Or James (who we didn't get a picture of because he was making tea)?
Our trinket ended up being an old fashioned radio.
June ended up with the trinket and should have been the king for the day but since this is my first experience with "galette des rois" he made me the honorary queen. I like to pretend I am royalty on most days but it was nice to be officially recognized (and actually was at one point in life, dairy princess totally counts)!
It was a really fun experience to have and I can see how the excitement would build with small children around. You could really get creative and make the privileges fun and worthwhile for the king/queen for the day.
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