celebrate  MARDI GRAS with

KING CAKE

Gather Your Ingredients:

– Flour  – Rapid Rise Yeast – Milk – Sugar – Salt – Eggs – Butter

- Brown Sugar - Cinnamon - Powdered Sugar - Vanilla - Colored Sugars - Fake Baby

Make the Dough

Combine the ingredients to make the cake in your stand mixer. Mix until combined. Scrap the sides.

1

Let the dough rise

You should have a dough ball when it is done. Cover and let rise an hour. Make your filling.

2

Knead and Fill

Roll it flat and fill with cinnamon filling and fold it over in half.

3

Make 3 Strips

Trim off any weird edges, as shown above, and then cut the dough into three equal, long strips.

4

Make the Braid

Pinch the three strips together at the top then braid them together.

5

Make the Ring

Gently stretch the braided dough until it's about 20 inches again, form a circle and pinch the two ends together.

6

Bake the Ring

Preheat the oven to 350 and bake for about 30 minutes.

7

Make the Icing

Combine the ingredients to make the icing. You want it this consistency.

8

Add Icing & Sprinkles

Spoon the icing over the warm cake and then immediately sprinkle with the colored sugar. Traditionally it's striped, but have fun with it.  Kids love doing this part!!

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Get the full recipe at ForkingGoodFood.com