Spain’s Roscone de Reyes, a cake eaten traditionally for Epiphany on January 6, is part of a wide-spread tradition of a cake with a prize in it—but this year Spanish bakers and shops have upped that from a bean or toy figure to literal gold fillings.
At big department store El Corte Ingles, a thousand of the cakes have 1g gold ingots baked in, each worth about €47. Three cakes have larger €1100 ingots, and the store expects to sell about 600,000 cakes this year, in 25 different varieties.
Corte Ingles is not the only place for a rich bite: a bakery in Leon has a €9000 prize in one of its roscones. And you don’t have to go to the store to have a chance; the store also sells on line. In Asturias, another chain has hidden 14 prizes, 13 with a value of €100 and the other with a €1000 prize.
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