The King Cake, or Tortell de Reis, is a traditional Catalan cake eaten on Epiphany (January 6th). It is made of brioche dough and decorated with fruits. Figures and a bean are baked inside, and whoever finds the bean must pay for next year's cake. The cake contains ingredients like leavening, flour, sugar, fat, eggs, lemon peel, and water. Fillings may include cream, Catalan cream, spaghetti squash, or marzipan made of almonds, sugar, and water.

1. TORTELL DE REIS
KING CAKE

2. What is the King Cake?
• It is a cercle or oval shape cake.
• It’s made of brioche mass.
• It’s decorated with sweet fruits.
• You also can find a crown and some sweets in
the hole of the cake.

3. Tradition of the King Cake
• The Tortell de Reis is traditional in Catalonia on
Epiphany Day (6th of January). We have a meal
with our family.
• In the cake there are some figures and the
bean. One of the figures is a King another a
bean.
• The tradition tells: If you find the figure of the
King, the paper crown is yours. If you find the
bean, the next year you must pay the cake.

4. The figure:
The bean:

5. Ingredients:
First part of the mass:
• Compressed Leavening.
• Water.
• Flour.
Second part of the mass:
• Sugar.
• Fat.
• Flour.
• Salt.
• An egg.
• Lemon peel.
• Water.

6. Stuffed (Ingredients)
• Cream: egg white, milk and sugar.
• Catalan Cream: vanilla cane, yolk, an egg,
sugar, flour and milk.
• Spaghetti squash: pumpkin, cinnamon stick,
sugar and lemon peel.
• Marzipan: almond powder, sugar and water.