King Cake

Celebrate Mardi Gras with this delicious King Cake! Whomever gets the baby is the king for the day! The dough is made from dinner rolls, so there is no yeast in the recipe.

Ingredients

Bread

• 12 Rhodes White Dinner Rolls, dough thawed to room temperature
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• Zest from one orange
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 teaspoon rum extract
• Small plastic baby or bean

Frosting

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Decorating

• Purple, green, and yellow colored sugar

Instructions

1. Heat water in a microwave safe bowl for 1 minute.
2. Add rum extract and then stir in raisins to rehydrate, set aside.
3. On a sprayed surface, combine the dough and roll out to a 17 inch circle. Poke a hole in the center of the dough and stretch it to create a doughnut shape.
4. Drain the raisins.
5. Combine brown sugar, orange zest, pecans and drained raisins. Distribute the mixture onto the dough in a ring shape around the center hole in the dough. Place the baby somewhere in the filling. Wrap the outsides of the dough around the filling and pinch to the dough on the other side of the filling. Be sure the filling is enclosed. Flip the king cake upside down onto a sprayed baking pan. Let rise for 30 minutes.
6. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 to 20 minutes.
7. Let cool to room temperature.
8. Mix frosting ingredients together and top the cake. Add colored sugar as desired.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Rhodes Bake-N-Serv