King cake makes the Hill rounds on Fat Tuesday - Roll Call

The cinnamon roll-like cake is traditionally dressed in icing and topped with colored sugar, while a plastic baby figurine gets buried in the dough. (A year filled with luck awaits whoever finds it.)

Louisiana bakery Manny Randazzo Original King Cakes baked these particular bready cakes, and most of Scalise’s krewe — at least those tweeting cake-related thanks — appeared to be Republicans.

Carnival season begins in early January and ends the day before Lent.

Scalise’s office did not respond to Heard on the Hill’s request for comment about who takes the cake in cake spending: him or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who readily acknowledged this week that his PAC spent more than $8,600 over the course of a decade at Junior’s Cheesecake in Brooklyn.

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