In France, we celebrate (i.e. eat cake) for Kings’ day, or Epiphany, 6th of January. Usually, one large cake contains a token, and the winner becomes ‘king’ for the day.
The preferred cake in most of the country is the galette des rois, a puff pastry pie filled with almond cream or frangipane.
Unless requested, I omit the token in mine. What I don’t omit is flavour. I make the puff pastry myself with quality French butter, the filling is abundant, almondy, rich but not cloying.
I make both individual pies and family ones (30cm in diameter).
The Salted Butter Caramel Cake is absolutely heavenly. Caramelly throughout, but not sickly sweet like many shop bought cakes. Just gorgeous!