Bakeries are for the morning and bars are for night. Sure. But then Mardi Gras comes along and early cocktails or late-night pastries make perfect sense.
Now the creative Carnival spirit has blended the world of confections and cocktails with a limited edition king cake developed in collaboration between the Marigny bakery Ayu Bakehouse (801 Frenchmen St.) and the Uptown cocktail destination Cure (4905 Freret St.)
This is the Vieux Carre king cake, a cake with New Orleans cocktail history and a whole lot of flavor baked in…