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Rosca de Reyes (Cake of Kings)
In this participatory work, we invite guests to cut and serve an overcrowded Rosca de Reyes. Each layer of the cake contains a material history that stretches across time uprooting biblical mythologies and the horrors of Spanish conquest which preceded contemporary state violence.
In Christian traditions, the Rosca de Reyes conceals a figurine that represents newborn baby Jesus, son of God. Fearing that the newborn messiah would usurp his throne, Herod the Great ordered the execution of all male children in the kingdom. It is customary that after parting the cake, the person who finds the figurine must bring it home and protect it from harm.
Each iteration of our Rosca de Reyes conflates the biblical creation myth and the five-century-old Spanish conquest of Mexico with the contemporary Mexican state’s policing of land and people. This counternarrative reveals the many layers and cycles of state violence as participants soon realize they manifest as physical barriers to ingestion and nourishment of the human body.
Ingredients:
4 cups of flour
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
.38 ounce of dry yeast
½ cup of warm water or milk
2 tablespoons of orange, zested
1 tablespoon of vanilla
2/3 cup of butter
1 teaspoon of salt
20 candied citrus peels and fruit pulp
10 plastic toy soldiers
10 monitos
40-50 words or phrases from A Brief Account of the
Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las CasasBaking Instructions:
Prepare yeast by mixing warm water or milk, dry yeast, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour. Let yeast rise for 10 minutes. Prepare dough by mixing the raised yeast, flour, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, and orange. Form dough into a ball, place in a bowl, cover and let rise for 45 minutes. Shape dough into a long-rolled cylinder. Join the ends to make into an oval ring. Place all the plastic figures inside the dough and decorate the top with the candied citrus and fruit pulp cut in long strips. Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 350o F. Let cool for 20 minutes before slicing.