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Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe with Crescent Rolls!

Author: Kasey Trenum

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 2 Rolls of Crescent Rolls

Filling:

  • Either use canned pie filling of your choice
  • OR:
  • 1/2 block cream cheese 4 oz
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup pecan halves optional
  • 1/4 cup raisins soaked in hot water 15 minutes patted dry (optional)

Glaze:

  • 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 tsp teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons milk
  • Food Coloring or Colored Sugar: Purple =Justice, Green (=Faith) and Gold (=Power)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350, spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray.
  • Unroll crescent dough and pull apart the triangles. One by one lie them in a circle with points to the center. Each triangle will need to overlap the one before it by about 1/4".
  • Press the middle of these seams together with your fingertips - but don't press too close to where the points are, or where the edges are, because you'll be lifting those to fold them in a minute.
  • Spoon the filling onto a ring - midway between the center points and the outer edge.
  • Place a plastic baby somewhere in the filling.
  • Now, lift up the inside point of each crescent triangle, starting with the last one you placed on the sheet. (That one won't have another roll on top of it) One at a time, fold it inward so it lies over the filling. (See picture above)
  • Next, take the outside edge of each crescent triangle, and one at a time, fold it over towards the center of the ring so the filling is completely encased. It should make a pretty crescent wreath.
  • Bake for 20 -25 minutes and let cool.
  • Now spoon your prepared colored icing over the King Cake, allowing it to drip down the sides.
  • Serve, making sure to warn your guests about the plastic baby :)