{"id":869,"date":"2024-11-28T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:51:40","slug":"king-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/11\/28\/king-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"King Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn’t realise how long it had been since I last posted. I’m still baking – honest. This week was my husband’s birthday, and instead of making a normal birthday cake, I tried to make him a “King Cake”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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King cake is something we discovered last year in New Orleans that plays a huge part of Mardi Gras celebrations. I’ve been to New Orleans twice – though never at Mardi Gras. We went to the “Mardi Gras World” Museum where they gave up samples of King Cake, and I was hooked. The below was the sample cake we had at Mardi Gras World<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “cake” is actually a bread dough similar to cinnamon buns, but one strand contains cinnamon sugar and the other contains a cream cheese filling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was my attempt at the spiralled strands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once baked, the cake is topped with an icing made from icing sugar, lemon juice and cream cheese, and then coated with Mardi Gras coloured sugars (gold, purple and green).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My result was rather TOO dense – but tasted a lot better if warmed up for 30 seconds in the microwave. You could just about see the cinnamon layer, but the cream cheese filling vanished in the dough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t realise how long it had been since I last posted. I’m still baking – honest. This week was my husband’s birthday, and instead of making a normal birthday cake, I tried to make him a “King Cake” King cake is something we discovered last year in New Orleans that plays a huge part … <\/p>\n

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