Rosca de Reyes, often known as the Three Kings’ Cake, is a candy bread historically eaten in Mexico and different Latin American international locations on January sixth, the day of Epiphany. The rosca de reyes is usually ring-shaped, with a gap within the middle, and is adorned with candied fruit and different candy toppings. A small plastic figurine of the newborn Jesus is usually hidden contained in the rosca, and whoever finds the figurine is claimed to be the godparent of the newborn Jesus for the yr.
The rosca de reyes has a protracted historical past, relationship again to the Center Ages. It’s believed that the rosca de reyes originated in Spain, the place it was often called the “rosca de Reyes Magos” (Three Kings’ Cake). The rosca de reyes was dropped at Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors within the sixteenth century, and it shortly turned a preferred custom.
