[title type="h3"]Bacon King Cake. . . With A Porky Baby[/title]
Maggie Scales, pastry chef for the Donald Link Restaurant Group, is once again baking highly offbeat king cakes for sale at Cochon Butcher. That's the very casual cafe behind the main Cochon dining room. The oddity as that these king cakes are not limited to cinnamon and sugar in their fillings, but also the likes of Meyer lemon, almond, chocolate pecan, and strawberry. The most creative is The Elvis: peanut butter, banana and house-cured bacon topped with marshmallow.
All of these--including that last one--make for enjoyable eating. But if you haven't had enough entertainment from the unique flavors, this ought to get you lauighing: instead of a pink plastic baby in the center, there's a pink plastic pig. (They cook a lot of pigmeat at Cochon.)
The tradition that the person whose slice carries the pink pig lives on. That person must buy the next king cake, whenever or wherever it will be dispatched. You can have a slice in the restaurant or get a whole kink cake for go for prices between $7.25 and $30.
Butcher
Warehouse District & Center City: 930 Tchoupitoulas. 504-588-7675. www.cochonbutcher.com.
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