TRADITIONAL NEW ORLEANS KING CAKE
Get in on the fun of traditional king cake by hiding a little toy baby in the cake. Whoever finds it has one year of good luck! -Rebecca Baird, Salt Lake City, Utah
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h5m
Yield 1 cake (12 pieces).
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add 1/2 cup sugar, butter, milk, egg yolks, salt, lemon zest, nutmeg and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky)., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Roll into a 16x10-in. rectangle. Combine cinnamon and remaining sugar; sprinkle over dough to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. Place seam side down on a greased baking sheet; pinch ends together to form a ring. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Brush with egg., Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack. For glaze, combine the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice and enough water to achieve desired consistency. Spread over cake. Sprinkle with colored sugars.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 321 calories, Fat 9g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 73mg cholesterol, Sodium 313mg sodium, Carbohydrate 55g carbohydrate (28g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 5g protein.
MARDI GRAS KING CAKE
The King Cake is a New Orleans tradition that involves a pastry, a small plastic baby, and a party. The King Cake is baked with a small plastic baby hidden inside, the person who gets the slice with baby in it has to host the next party.
Provided by Jo
Categories Desserts Cakes Holiday Cake Recipes
Time 4h30m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Scald milk, remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup of butter. Allow mixture to cool to room temperature. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in the warm water with 1 tablespoon of the white sugar. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
- When yeast mixture is bubbling, add the cooled milk mixture. Whisk in the eggs. Stir in the remaining white sugar, salt and nutmeg. Beat the flour into the milk/egg mixture 1 cup at a time. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes.
- Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 2 hours. When risen, punch down and divide dough in half.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 2 cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
- To Make Filling: Combine the brown sugar, ground cinnamon, chopped pecans, 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup raisins. Pour 1/2 cup melted butter over the cinnamon mixture and mix until crumbly.
- Roll dough halves out into large rectangles (approximately 10x16 inches or so). Sprinkle the filling evenly over the dough and roll up each half tightly like a jelly roll, beginning at the wide side. Bring the ends of each roll together to form 2 oval shaped rings. Place each ring on a prepared cookie sheet. With scissors make cuts 1/3 of the way through the rings at 1 inch intervals. Let rise in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Push the doll into the bottom of the cake. Frost while warm with the confectioners' sugar blended with 1 to 2 tablespoons of water.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 418.2 calories, Carbohydrate 68.7 g, Cholesterol 47.3 mg, Fat 13.4 g, Fiber 2.3 g, Protein 7.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.2 g, Sodium 300.5 mg, Sugar 30.7 g
KING CAKE TRADITIONAL NEW ORLEANS RECIPE
In European countries, the coming of the wisemen bearing gifts to the Christ Child is celebrated twelve days after Christmas. The celebration, called Epiphany, Little Christmas on the Twelfth Night, is a time of exchanging gifts and feasting. All over the world, people gather for the festive Twelfth Night celebrations. One of the most popular customs is still the baking of a special cake in honor of the three kings... "A King's Cake." Tradition has now evolved through time to obligate the person who receives the baby (inside every King Cake) to continue the festivities by hosting another king cake party.King Cakes were originally a simple ring of dough with little decoration. The King Cake is made with a rich Danish dough, baked and covered wth a poured sugar topping and decorated with the traditional Mardi Gras-colored sugars. The result is a delicious and festive cake in traditional Rex colors: Purple, representing justice; Green representing faith; Gold representing Power.
Provided by Steven L.
Categories Breads
Time 3h35m
Yield 10-12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- Pour the warm water into a small shallow bowl, and sprinkle yeast and 2 teaspoons sugar into it.
- Allow the yeast and sugar to rest for three minutes then mix thoroughly.
- Set bowl in a warm place, for ten minutes or until yeast bubbles up and mixture almost doubles up in volume.
- Combine 3 1/2 cups of flour, remaining sugar, nutmeg and salt, and sift into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir in lemon zest.
- Separate center of mixture to form a hole and pour in yeast mixture and milk.
- Add egg yolks and using a wooden spoon slowly combine dry ingredients into the yeast/milk mixture.
- When mixture is smooth, beat in 8 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon at a time and continue to beat 2 minutes or until dough can be formed into a medium soft ball.
- Place ball of dough on a lightly floured surface and knead like bread.
- During this kneading, add up to 1 cup more of flour (1 tablespoon at a time) sprinkled over the dough.
- When dough is no longer sticky, knead 10 minutes more until shiny and elastic.
- Using a pastry brush, coat the inside of a large bowl evenly with one tablespoon softened butter.
- Place dough ball in the bowl and rotate until the entire surface is buttered.
- Cover bowl with a moderately thick kitchen towel and place in a draft free spot for about 1-½ hours, or until the dough doubles in volume.
- Using a pastry brush, coat a large baking sheet with one tablespoon of butter and set aside.
- Remove dough from bowl and place on lightly floured surface.
- Using you fist, punch dough down with a heavy blow.
- Sprinkle cinnamon over the top, pat and shake dough into a cylinder.
- Twist dough to form a curled cylinder and loop cylinder onto the buttered baking sheet.
- Pinch the ends together to complete the circle.
- Cover dough with towel and set it in draft free spot for 45 minutes until the circle of dough doubles in volume.
- Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Brush top and sides of cake with egg wash and bake on middle rack of oven for 25 to 35 minutes until golden brown.
- Place cake on wire rack to cool.
- If desired, at this time, you can"hide" the plastic baby in the cake.
- Colored sugars------------------.
- Squeeze a dot of green paste in palm of hand.
- Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar over the paste and rub together quickly.
- Place this mixture on wax paper and wash hands to remove color.
- Repeat process for other two colors.
- Place aside.
- Icing------------------.
- Combine sugar, lemon juice and 3 tablespoons water until smooth.
- If icing is too stiff, add more water until spreadable.
- Spread icing over top of cake.
- Immediately sprinkle the colored sugars in individual rows consisting of about two rows of green, purple and yellow.
- Cake is served in 2"- 3" pieces.
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