For that, I skipped melted chocolate in favor of cocoa powder. Melted chocolate tends to dry out cake batter, and unless you’re using 100 percent unsweetened chocolate, adding bar chocolate also ...

Eating king cake during Carnival season likely became a tradition in the 1980s. Getty Images/iStockphoto The colorful king cakes weren’t always a staple of Mardi Gras, but they definitely are now.