Does anyone have a "quick" king cake recipe?

Answer 1

4-6 servings 1 cake 40 min 20 min prep
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1 (12 ounce) can crescent rolls
1/4 cup cinnamon
1/4 cup butter
1 (21 ounce) can fruit pie filling
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup icing (see below)
3/4 cup sugar, divided into 3 parts
food coloring (gold, purple, green)

< 60 mins Cakes
Fruit Cakes
1.After opening the can of crescent rolls, unroll in one piece. With your fingers, press seams together to form one piece of dough.
2.Mix together butter and cinnamon, gently spread over the dough.
3.Mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Drop teaspoons over the top of the dough. Drop teaspoonfuls of pie filling (cherry, blueberry or peach) over the dough as you did the cream cheese.
4.Starting on the long end, carefully roll the dough, horizontally, with the filling and cream cheese inside. Insert plastic baby at any place within the dough.
5.Place on baking pan with the seam side down in a circle, pinching the ends together.
6.Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
7.While the cake is baking, use the food coloring to dye the sugar.
8.When cake is cool, pour icing over the top of the cake. Sprinkle with the colored sugar, alternating the three colors as you go around the circle.
9.For icing: Combine 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp water until smooth.

Answer 2

This is an easy quick way of making King Cake. This is good recipe. Try it and see what you think!!
1 (12 ounce) can crescent rolls
1/4 cup cinnamon
1/4 cup butter
1 (21 ounce) can fruit pie filling
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup icing (see below)
3/4 cup sugar, divided into 3 parts
food coloring (gold, purple, green)

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< 60 mins Cakes
Fruit Cakes
After opening the can of crescent rolls, unroll in one piece. With your fingers, press seams together to form one piece of dough.
Mix together butter and cinnamon, gently spread over the dough.
Mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Drop teaspoons over the top of the dough. Drop teaspoonfuls of pie filling (cherry, blueberry or peach) over the dough as you did the cream cheese.
Starting on the long end, carefully roll the dough, horizontally, with the filling and cream cheese inside. Insert plastic baby at any place within the dough.
Place on baking pan with the seam side down in a circle, pinching the ends together.
Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
While the cake is baking, use the food coloring to dye the sugar.
When cake is cool, pour icing over the top of the cake. Sprinkle with the colored sugar, alternating the three colors as you go around the circle.
For icing: Combine 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp water until smooth.

Answer 3

QUICKIE KING CAKE

Frozen bread dough
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1/2 stick butter, softened
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 c. powdered sugar
Few drops milk or water
Colored sugars
Plastic baby

Thaw bread dough. Roll out into large rectangle; spread with softened butter. Combine cinnamon and sugar. Sprinkle evenly over dough. Roll dough making a long tube, twist and then place on oiled pan with ends of roll meeting to form an oval.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Hide baby after baking. Combine powdered sugar with just enough milk or water to spread. Ice hot King Cake. Decorate with green, purple and yellow sugar (purchased or colored by shaking in jar with food coloring).