King Cake by The Cajun Ninja
Good ole plain and simple King Cake. Feel free to change it up how ever you like ????????????
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How to Make King Cake
Learn how to make this festive Mardi Gras cake.
Do you know what king cake is? Made famous in New Orleans, king cake is the classic ring-shaped Mardi Gras cake made for fat Tuesday with a lucky trinket baked right into the bread. In this video, you'll learn how to make a king cake. With this simple step-by-step recipes, you can make a traditional, delicious, properly decorated king cake with a cream cheese filling. You'll see a great trick for making sure the dough maintains its ring shape while rising and baking and see how to finish the king cake with a sweet lemon glaze and festive sprinkles of traditional Mardi Gras colors—purple, yellow, and green. Long live the king cake!
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New Orleans Style King Cake
This is truly a New Orleans Original. This recipe celebrates the traditional King Cake. A moist fluffy bread, with a sweet cinnamon swirl in the center. All topped with a sugar glaze and dressed in purple, green and gold sprinkles.
Ingredients:
Cake:
o ½ teaspoon salt
o 1 teaspoon lemon zest
o 1 tablespoon active yeast
o ¼ cup warm water (110 degrees)
1/2 warm milk
o ¼ cup granulated sugar
o ½ cup unsalted butter
o 2 egg yolks
o 3 cups bread flour
o ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
o 1 egg
o 1 teaspoon milk
Cinnamon Swirl Filling:
o ¼ cup granulated sugar
o 1 tablespoon cinnamon
o 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
Glaze:
o 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
o 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
o 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
o 2-3 tablespoons milk
Instructions:
1. Whisk sugar and yeast together in a mixing bowl. Combine warm water and milk in another bowl, mixture should be warm about 110 degrees. Pour milk mixture into mixing bowl with yeast and sugar. Whisk and allow to set covered for 5 minutes. Yeast should create a light foam over top of mixture.
2. Add butter (cut into pieces) and mix on medium. Butter will break up a bit, but not completely. Next add in egg yolk, also mix on medium. Add in lemon zest and mix until combined. Mix in 2 cups of the flour mixture, 1 cup at a time. Mix on medium using a dough hook. Add in another ¼ - ½ cup of flour, dough should no longer stick to the sides of the bowl.
3. Remove dough from the bowl, onto a lightly floured surface. Knead the dough until smooth and bounces back when poked, about 5 – 10 minutes. Place the dough into a will oiled bowl, cover and place in a warm place. Let the dough rise for 1-2 hours, until doubled in size.
4. Mix cinnamon and sugar together in a bowl. Punch down risen dough and place on a lightly floured surface. Using a roller, roll dough into a 12 X 20-inch rectangle. Cut rectangle in equal half’s, longways. With a knife, spread softened butter generously over each half, leaving a small edge all the way around. Use all of the butter in the recipe. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over every inch of butter.
5. Starting at longer side of each rectangle, roll up the dough into a log shape. Take the end of each roll and pinch them together. Then starting from the end, twist the roll under and over, pinching them together at the opposite end. Once the rolls have formed a twist, turn them into a circle folding the loose ends under one another. Loosely cover cake with plastic and let rise for an additional 20-30 minutes.
6. Once risen, brush the cake with the egg wash. Bake the king cake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. When the cake is golden brown, tap the top. If the cake should hallow, when it is ready.
7. Once cake has cooled began to glaze. Make glaze by whisking together confectioners’ sugar, heavy cream, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Spoon glaze generously over the cake. After glazing immediately sprinkle purple, green and gold sugar sprinkles over the glaze, repeating the color combination around the cake.
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King Cake Cheat !! by The Easy Cajun
You don't have to wait for Mardi Gras to desire a luscious King Cake! And with my little cheat method, you can make one quickly and easily. And there won't be a baby to worry about!!! ;-)
Hey, I am “The Easy Cajun” . . . so I don’t mind finding and using an “easy” way to do some things . . . sometimes.
I know, some of my kitchen habits are OCD at all levels, but I found, tested several times, adjusted, and loved this shortcut for a faux King Cake. And everybody craved more once each was all gone!! So, why not cheat a little sometimes to get more smiles from the results of your kitchen activities ????
INGREDIENTS:
CAKE:
2 tubes (8 ounces each) refrigerated crescent rolls
6 ounces cream cheese
3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup light brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter, softened
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
ICING:
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 tablespoons 2% milk
Red, blue, yellow and green food coloring and/or . . .
colored sugar sprinkles (purple, gold, and green for Mardi Gras or whatever colors the celebration requires)
INSTRUCTIONS:
In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. In another bowl, mix the brown sugar, butter and cinnamon until it becomes all crumbly.
Unroll both tubes of crescent dough and separate into triangles. Place triangles on a greased 12-in. pizza pan, or any appropriate baking pan, to form a ring with pointed ends of the dough facing toward the center and wide ends overlapping as seen in the video. Lightly press the wide ends together.
Spoon the cream cheese mix near wide ends of ring as shown in the video. Put the brown sugar mix over the cream cheese ring as I did.
Fold the inside dough points over the filling and fold wide ends over points to seal (or vise-versa as I mistakenly did in the video, it work just as good and looks more artful). Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. After baking, cool for at least 5 minutes before slicing.
While your cake is in the oven, combine the confectioners' sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to achieve the desired consistency in your icing. Divide this among three bowls if you are going to color the icing. For Mardi Gras colors, use red and blue food coloring to tint one portion purple. Tint another portion yellow with yellow food coloring and tint the remaining portion green with the green food coloring. Drizzle the icing over your cake after it has finished baking in whatever pattern your creative instincts lead you to create.
If you elect to use colored sugar sprinkles in addition to, or instead of, coloring the icing, make sure your icing is a soft enough consistency to be able to hold on to the sprinkles when you get them distributed onto the cake.
Serve this warm if you can. Of course it’s great at room temperature also.
This is one of those times that it’s really ok to cheat my friends ????
And no! You don’t have to wait for Mardi Gras.
Bon appetite ????
The Easy Cajun
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