Did anybody else get these in their bakery department? They're suppose to be a Latin American/ Mexican dessert that's served on the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6th). They're similar in concept to a Mardi Gras King cake in the fact that there's a plastic figurine hidden inside the cake. The ones we got in are in the shape of a ring about 9 or 10 inches in diameter. They have bright colored icing and strips of candied fruit on them. They taste horrible. It's like eating dried out bread with chalky icing on it. They sent us 3 cases with 24 cakes in each case. That's 72 cakes at $6.65 each. Even if they're marked down to half price, they're not worth it. They'd have to pay me to take one. They're that bad.
We didn't get those here, thank God because there's no way we'd ever sell through those things. They sound like a gross fruit cake though.
That's the thing. All the recipes I looked up had fruit and nuts in the dough (cherries, candied orange peel, almonds etc). These things are just plain dry dough with chalky tasting icing and what looks like strips of fruit roll-ups on them. The dough is so dry it's as if they let them sit out a day or two after they were baked before packaging them
