Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake

Name: Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Creole, Cajun
Ingredients: 1 kilograms refrigerated sweet roll dough; 118 milliliters multi-colored sprinkles; 2 drops green food coloring; 59 milliliters milk; 1 drop red food coloring; 24 fluid ounces (12 fluid ounce) cans creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting; 2 drops yellow food coloring

Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake might be just the Creole recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains around 6g of protein, 13g of fat, and a total of 531 calories. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have food coloring, milk, food coloring, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Open the cans of sweet roll dough and unroll the dough from each can into 3 strands. Working on a clean surface, place 3 dough strands side by side and gather them together to make one large strand. Fold this in half, and roll slightly to make a fat log. Repeat steps with the remaining dough.

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Dough

Roll

Place each log on the prepared baking sheet and shape to make a ring, overlapping the ends and pinching them together to make a complete circle. Pat the dough into shape as necessary to make the ring even in size all the way around. Cover loosely with foil.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Bake in preheated oven until firm to the touch and golden brown, 50 to 60 minutes. Check often for doneness so the ring doesn't overbake.

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Oven

Place on a wire rack and cool completely.

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Wire Rack

Place the cake ring on a serving plate.

Cut a slit along the inside of the ring and insert a small plastic baby, pushing it far enough into the cake to be hidden from view.

Divide the frosting evenly between 4 bowls. Stir 1 tablespoon of milk into each bowl to thin the frosting. Use the frosting in one bowl to drizzle over the cooled cake. To the remaining three bowls of frosting, stir yellow food coloring into one and green into another. Stir the red and blue food colorings together with the frosting in a third bowl to make purple frosting.

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Food Color

Frosting

Milk

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Bowl

Drizzle the cake with yellow, green, and purple frostings in any desired pattern. Dust the cake with multi-colored sprinkles and decorate with beads, additional plastic babies, curly ribbon, and other festive trinkets.

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Colored Sprinkles