Día De Reyes, also known as the Feast of The Epiphany or “The Three Kings’ Day” Is a Christian festivity that is celebrated every 6th of January to honor the birth of Jesus.

According to tradition, The Three Kings Balthazar, Melchior, and Caspar arrived in Bethlehem from the Far East to meet the newborn king. With them, they brought Three symbolic gifts to deliver to Jesus: Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh.

Celebrations vary from one country to another, the tradition remains similar across Latin America and Spain. The fiesta starts on January 5th, also known as “Noche De Reyes” and concludes the following day with the gifts children received from Los Reyes Magos. This event ends the 12 days of Christmas within the Hispanic culture. But wait! no celebration is complete without some kind of dessert.

Depending on your location, you might have come across these oval-looking bread wreaths around the bakery section on your trips to the local supermarket around the holidays. Do you remember? Great! but what is it and why do we eat it?

Rosca De Reyes is an oval sweet bread also known as “King’s Cake” La Rosca de Reyes is eaten on Día De Reyes, It’s a tradition that originated in Spain and Traveled to Mexico. The oval shape on the Rosca is meant to symbolize a crown and the colorful jeweled design is meant to symbolize the gifts given to baby Jesus. Between us, This pairs well is a hot cup of Mexican hot chocolate. But wait! there’s more. Inside the Rosca
De Reyes, there is a small plastic doll, which represents baby Jesus. If you are lucky to get the baby in your slice, you have been chosen to cook or in some cases depending on your culinary skills, buy tamales for everyone you celebrated Día De Reyes with and share those tamales on February 2nd. Known as Día De La Candelaria.

¡Feliz Día De Reyes!