How To make King Cake

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.

French King Cake / Epiphany cake

French King Cake / Epiphany cake

This Epiphany cake is Easy to Make and so Delicious.
With its Crispy puff pastry and Sweeet Almond Paste, this French King Cake (galette des rois) makes a great dessert.

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✅ Ingredients:
1 Puff Pastry (homemade or store bought)
1/2 cup + 3 tbsp (150 g) Unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup (150 g) Granulated Sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
1+1/2 cup (150 g) Almond Meal
1 egg yolk for egg wash

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Specialty King Cake Recipes (2 Ways)

I've done over my original king cake recipe several times now, so I finally branched off to make these two variations: bananas foster and dulce de leche. These utilize my original dough recipe but with specialized fillings and icings for each cake that make for wonderful variety.

-Mardi Gras Sprinkles:
-Large 21x15 baking sheet:

Ingredients:

Tangzhong:
60g bread flour (1/2 cup)
120ml water (1/2 cup)
180ml whole milk (3/4 cup)

Dough:
9g active dry yeast (~1 packet)
100g sugar (1/2 cup)
120ml whole milk (1/2 cup)
600g bread flour (5 cups), plus more
10g kosher salt (1.5 tsp)
Grated nutmeg
2 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
113g softened butter (8 tbsp or 1 stick)

*Bananas foster:*
Filling:
150g brown sugar (3/4 cup)
57g unsalted butter (4 tbsp)
8g cinnamon (1 tbsp)
2 bananas, sliced into thin coins
2 tbsp rum
113g cream cheese (4oz or half block)
Pinch salt

Icing:
320g powdered sugar (2.5 cups)
113g cream cheese (4oz or half block)
57g butter (4 tbsp)
4g lemon juice (1 tsp)
2 tbsp rum
2 tbsp corn syrup
2 tsp vanilla
Pinch salt
Whole milk until desired consistency
Chopped pecans for sprinkling

*Dulce de leche:*
Filling:
57g softened unsalted butter (4 tbsp)
30ml heavy cream (2 tbsp)
100g dulce de leche
150g brown sugar (3/4 cup)
8g cinnamon (1 tbsp)
Pinch salt

Icing:
260g powdered sugar (2 cups)
57g softened unsalted butter (4 tbsp)
227g cream cheese (8oz block)
50g dulce de leche
4g lemon juice (1 tsp)
2 tbsp corn syrup
2 tsp vanilla
Pinch salt
Whole milk until desired consistency

Products I use:
-Kitchen Scale:
-Tojiro Chef's Knife:
-Enamel Cast Iron Dutch Oven:
-10 Cast Iron:
-Air Fryer:
-Duxtop Induction Burner:
-Garlic Press:
-Potato Ricer:
-Bulk Maldon Flakey Salt:
-Instant Read Thermometer:
-Candy/Frying Thermometer:
-Microplane zester:
-Vacuum sealer:

King Cake is Mardi Gras' Most Famous Dessert | Legendary Eats

During Mardi Gras, bakeries like Gambino's Bakery sell king cakes all across the city. Shops begin selling the pastry on January 6, or King's Day, and through the eve of Mardi Gras, which is Tuesday, February 25, 2020. The pastry is eaten in Catholic countries around the world as a way to celebrate the coming of the three kings, but in New Orleans, it marks the Carnival season and the city has become synonymous with the dessert. Each pastry is decorated with frosting and sprinkles in purple, green and gold, and a small plastic baby is baked into each cake as part of a New Orleans tradition that started many years ago. Tradition goes that whoever finds the baby has to bring the king cake for the next party.

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