King Cake Combo

The Sehnert’s Bakery King Cake is a sweet and fluffy dough loaf that tastes like a blend between a cinnamon and a coffee cake. Their king cakes take two forms – a sweet, fruity cake and a sweet, cinnamon sugar mouthwatering cake. Both are topped with homemade white vanilla icing and sprinkled with sugar of the familiar colors of this Mardi Gras favorite: yellow, green and purple. And, as is tradition, the final surprise is a plastic king cake baby hidden in the cake to put a cap on your Mardi Gras celebration!

The Sehnert family has been baking since the 1500s, and in 1897 Richard Sehnert brought the family bakery from his native Germany to America. Ten branches of the Sehnert family opened bakeries in the US during the 1900s, but today only one remains. Sehnert’s Bakery has been a cornerstone of the southwest Nebraska town of McCook since being founded by Walt and Jean Sehnert in 1957, carried into the 21st century under the ownership of Walt and Jean’s son Matt and his wife Shelley, and today it’s owned by Sehnert family friends Andrew and Alix Ambriz, along with their sons. In 2019, the bakery was honored by the James Beard Foundation with their prestigious America’s Classics Award for their Bieroc.