Easy 30 Minute Mardi Gras King Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
1 12oz tube refrigerated crescent rolls
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup brown sugar
Frosting:
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Purple, gold and green sugar sprinkles
Directions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Roll out tube of crescent rolls on parchment lined cookie sheet, pressing the seams of the dough together to form one large layer of dough.
Mix cream cheese, 1/4 cup powdered sugar and and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and spread it along the center of your dough.
Cut a few slits in the sides of the dough to make flaps that can be folded over the filling.
Sprinkle brown sugar and pecans over the cream cheese.
Fold the flaps over the filling to make a “braid” and pinch together any holes along the bottom so the cream cheese doesn’t leak out while it’s baking.
Gently form the dough into a ring on the cookie sheet.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
While cake is baking, mix together the frosting: 3 cups powdered sugar and 1/4 cup water with 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. This mixture will be rather thick.
When your cake is out of the oven, spread it in a ribbon around the top of the cake, a section at a time. You have to work quick to add your sprinkles before the icing hardens after you put on the icing.
The finishing touch is the baby. Slip it under the cake and see who gets to hit the kitchen next to bake up another cake!
