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King Cake with colored sprinkles
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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and symbolizes the Epiphany. Popular during Mardi Gras Season.
yield: one pastry
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prep Time4 hours
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American South
Keyword: king cake with cinnamon filling
Servings: 12

Ingredients

  • For the cake:
  • 1 1 pound loaf frozen white bread dough (I used Bridgford Bread and Roll Dough)
  • For the filling:
  • 1/2 cup butter unsalted
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar firmly packed. Use light or dark
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg freshly ground preferred
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • For the icing:
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons half and half or substitute milk or buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • food safe sprinkles in gold green, and purple

Instructions

  • For the dough:
  • Follow package directions to thaw dough. I prefer to thaw overnight in the refrigerator.
  • Roll out dough to a rectangle about 10x24.
  • For the filling:
  • Melt butter in microwave.
  • Add brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt to the bowl.
  • Stir until well incorporated.
  • Pour filling onto dough.
  • Cover entire surface of dough leaving an inch border.
  • Starting with a long side, roll the dough in a cinnamon roll fashion. Pinch seam.
  • Form the pastry into a circle and pinch ends.
  • Let rise for one hour or until doubled in size.
  • Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and the pastry sound hollow when tapped.
  • Cool completely before icing.
  • For the icing:
  • Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl.  Stir well. Icing should be thin enough to drizzle over the pastry,
  • When cake is completely cooled, drizzle icing over the pasty. Decorate with colored sprinkles.
  • Hide baby Jesus in the cake and try to remember where it is. Remind guests to be on the lookout for a small plastic object. I place the baby close to the bottom of the pasty where it's easily concealed.
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