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King Cake Recipe For Mardi Gras!

by Betty Crocker Recipes

2. Heat milk, sugar, and salt in a small saucepan over medium
heat until sugar is dissolved and milk is between 120°F to
130°F.
3. With mixer on low, pour in liquids and mix until
incorporated. Add eggs one at a time. Continue mixing until
a shaggy dough forms. Clean off paddle and switch to dough
hook. Mix in the remaining 1 cup flour a little at a time,
adding more or less flour as needed to make a soft dough.
Add the softened butter, a piece at a time, kneading until each
piece of butter is absorbed.
4. Knead for eight minutes on low. The dough should
completely clear the sides of the bowl. If it is too sticky, add
additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing in thoroughly

Laissez les bons temps rouler—let the good times roll—with before determining if more flour is needed. If the dough
these braided and buttery, cinnamon-filled cakes that are seems too dry, spritz with water from a spray bottle a couple
festively decorated with vibrant colors. of times, mixing in thoroughly before determining if more
water is needed. Every 2 minutes, stop the machine, scrape
INGREDIENTS the dough off the hook, and then continue kneading.
3 ½ cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour 5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead
1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) Rapid Rise yeast a few times by hand to be sure it’s smooth and elastic. Form
the dough into a ball. Place dough into a greased bowl. Turn
1 cup milk once so greased surface is on top. Cover bowl with plastic
¼ cup sugar wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

1 teaspoon salt 6. While the dough is chilling, make cinnamon filling. In
small bowl, combine the brown sugar and ground cinnamon.
2 eggs Combine butter with cinnamon mixture and mix well.
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, cut into 12 pieces 7. Roll the chilled dough into a 10 x 20 inch rectangle. Spread
the filling on half of the long side of the dough. Fold the
Cinnamon Filling dough in half covering the filling. Pat dough down firmly so
2/3 cup packed light brown sugar the dough will stick together. Cut dough into three long strips.
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon Press the tops of the strips together and braid the strips. Press
the ends together at the bottom. Gently stretch the braid so
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened that it measures 20 inches again. Shape it into a circle/oval
and press the edges together.
Icing 8. Transfer the ring to a parchment lined or greased baking
1 cup powdered sugar sheet. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rise until

1 tablespoon milk doubled, about 1 hour. While the dough is rising, preheat the
oven to 350°. Bake the cake until it is golden brown, 20 – 35
½ teaspoon vanilla minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes on baking
sheet and then place it on a cooling rack to cool completely
before icing. To hide the baby in the cake, if desired, make
Decoration a small slit in the bottom of the cake and put the miniature
Dark green, purple, and yellow or gold sugars, if desired plastic baby in after the cake has cooled.
Miniature plastic baby, if desired 9. Icing: In a small bowl, mix powdered sugar, milk and
vanilla until smooth (add additional milk if mixture is too
STEPS thick or powdered sugar if too thin).

1. Mix 2 1/2 cups flour and yeast in mixing bowl of stand 10. Spoon icing over top of the cake. Immediately sprinkle on
colored sugar, alternating between the three colors.
mixer, using the paddle attachment, on low for about 30
seconds.

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