King's Cake Recipe

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King's Cake
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Ingredients
20
Count
Nutrition
3213
Calories
Total time
90
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1 stick butter
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 4 tsp dry yeast
  • 1/3 cup warm water
  • 4 eggs
  • pinch salt
  • 1 cup sugar (confectioners' variety preferred)
  • 1/8 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 plastic babies
  • glaze , recipe follows
  • colored sugar , recipe follows

Directions:

  1. In a saucepan, melt butter, milk, 1/3 cup sugar, and salt. Let cool to lukewarm.
  2. In a large bowl combine 2 tablespoons sugar, yeast, and water. Let stand until foaming appears, about 5 to 10 minutes. Beat eggs into yeast, and add milk mixture. Stir in 5 cups of the flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Use reserved cup of flour for kneading surface.
  3. Knead dough until smooth, about 5 to 10 minutes. It will probably take the whole cup of reserved flour.
  4. Place in large bowl greased with nonstick spray, turn once to grease the top, cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
  5. Cream Cheese Filling:
  6. Beat together the cream cheese, salt, sugar, flour, lemon juice, vanilla, and eggs until smooth. Set aside.
  7. On flat surface, punch down dough and divide in half. Turn 1 portion of dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll to a 28 by 10-inch rectangle. Do not roll too thin.
  8. Spread half of the cream cheese filling lengthwise down the dough. Spread 1/2 of each pie filling on top of the cream cheese mixture. Place 1 baby anywhere in the filling.
  9. Roll dough, starting at the long side. Gently place dough roll seam side down on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bring ends of dough together to form a circle. Tuck 1 end inside the other, moisten with water and pinch edges together to seal. Cover, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
  10. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  11. Repeat directions with other half of ingredients.
  12. On a serving plate, ice the cake one strip at a time from center of ring to outside. Each stripe should be about 2 inches wide. Spread colored icing on cake and sprinkle colored sugar over icing. Repeat with each color of icing and sugar until entire cake is covered in icing and sugar toping.
  13. Have a great Mardi Gras! Laissez les bon temps rouler.
  14. Glaze:
  15. 2 cups sugar, confectioners' variety preferred
  16. 1/4 cup butter, softened
  17. Yellow food coloring (Power)
  18. Purple food coloring (Justice)
  19. Green food coloring (Faith)
  20. In a bowl, combine sugar and butter, and stir until mixture is smooth. Separate mixture into 3 containers, and add food coloring. Mix until desired color is reached.
  21. Colored Sugar:
  22. 1 1/2 cups sugar
  23. Yellow food coloring (Power)
  24. Purple food coloring (Justice)
  25. Green food coloring (Faith)
  26. In 3 lidded containers, add 1/2 cup of sugar in each, and add 1 food coloring to each container, cover, and shake vigorously.
  27. Home Cook Recipe: A viewer or guest of the show, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchen have not tested this recipe and therefore cannot make representation as to the results.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 3213.36 Kcal (13454 kJ)
Calories from fat 1090.5 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 121.17g 186%
Cholesterol 738.9mg 246%
Sodium 3356.56mg 140%
Potassium 1099.88mg 23%
Total Carbs 458.25g 153%
Sugars 96.61g 386%
Dietary Fiber 16.79g 67%
Protein 74.06g 148%
Vitamin C 16.7mg 28%
Vitamin A 0.6mg 19%
Iron 8.4mg 47%
Calcium 393.4mg 39%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 295.2 Kcal (1236 kJ)
Calories from fat 100.18 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 11.13g 186%
Cholesterol 67.88mg 246%
Sodium 308.36mg 140%
Potassium 101.04mg 23%
Total Carbs 42.1g 153%
Sugars 8.88g 386%
Dietary Fiber 1.54g 67%
Protein 6.8g 148%
Vitamin C 1.5mg 28%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 19%
Iron 0.8mg 47%
Calcium 36.1mg 39%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 73.6
    Points
  • 86
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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