Crescent rolls to the rescue for a quick and easy way to make a King Cake for Mardi Gras.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
King Cakes
The classic king cake is oval-shaped and most often made from a coffeecake like dough. They are filled with a cream cheese (or other) filling and sprinkled with colored sugar (purple, gold, and green traditionally). The cakes often contain a small plastic baby inside (said to represent baby Jesus). The one who gets the trinket in their piece at Mardi Gras or Carnival is the "king" of the feast.
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Crescent Roll King Cake With Cream Cheese-Cinnamon Filling
King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling
A traditional style King Cake for Mardi Gras. It's made with a yeast dough and filled with a cream cheese fruit mixture. The colored sugars symbolize justice...
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Easy King Cake
Made with red, blue, yellow, and green food color, sugar, lemon peel, ground nutmeg, gumdrop, yellow cake mix, confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, water
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Official Mardi Gras King Cake
What would Fat Tuesday be without the famous king cake? This from-scratch version will be the center of attention at your Mardi Gras celebration.
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours