Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Let them eat cake! King cake.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow is Lent...

King Cake is traditionally served to celebrate Fat Tuesday. It is made with a rich bread dough that is filled with a cinnamon mixture and braided into a ring. It is typically frosted, and adorned with purple, yellow and green (purple to represent justice, green to represent faith, and gold to represent power). That's waaay too much work for us. Here's a super easy King Cake recipe that nobody will know didn't take you all day in the kitchen to prepare. If you’ve never had or baked a King Cake before, there is no time like the present to start.

Mardi Gras King Cake

Ingredients:

1 (13.9-ounce) can bread sticks
1 (1-inch) heat proof plastic baby (optional)
1 (12-ounce) can whipped cream cheese frosting
1/4 cup heavy cream
Green sanding sugar
Purple sanding sugar
Yellow sanding sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.

Open bread sticks. Press together the ends of 2 of the sticks to make 1 long stick. Repeat with the remaining bread sticks giving you 6 long sticks. Taking 3 at a time, loosely braid together. Repeat with remaining dough. Pinch the braids together end to end. Leaving a 3-inch hole in the middle, loosely coil braids around one another on prepared baking sheet. Press ends together.

Bake in preheated oven for 16 to 20 minutes or until completely golden brown. Remove from oven and cool completely. Carefully insert the baby into the cake in between the seams of the braid. In a medium pot combine the cream cheese frosting and heavy cream. Heat over low heat until warm and smooth, stirring constantly. Pour glaze over cake and sprinkle with sanding sugars.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!


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  2. Can we please make this soon? I'll bring the baby!

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  3. We have to wait until next year! We can make easter cupcakes though :)

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