Easy King Cake Recipe For Mardi Gras – Cinnamon Roll King Cake

This easy king cake recipe is just perfect for Mardi Gras. I wanted to feature something to help you celebrate with your family and was thinking of quick ways to make this traditional Mardi Gras treat. It’s all about presentation and flavor right? Well, what better way to show off your yellow, purple, and green than with this cinnamon roll king cake. SO MUCH FUN! The kids will have a blast indulging in the sweet flavors and you will save lots of time in the kitchen thanks to this quick recipe. Let’s get right to it.

By the way, do you have anyone that throws a Mardi Gras party? We have a wonderful family in town that hosts quite a bash every year and this is the PERFECT hostess gift to bring to help celebrate with friends. I cannot WAIT to bring this New Orleans king cake over!!

Easy King Cake Recipe For Mardi Gras – Cinnamon Roll King Cake

If you want to really add up some flare, be sure to run to the dollar store to pick up some masquerade masks and colorful beads. Gold/Yellow is a BIG color! So is purple and green – stick to those three and you will be good to go.

Easy King Cake Recipe For Mardi Gras

Easy King Cake Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 tubes, 17.5 oz each, jumbo cinnamon rolls
• 1 tub, 16 oz, white frosting (green, yellow and violet color gels)
• Used Wilton Leaf Green, Golden Yellow and Violet color gels

Cinnamon Roll King Cake Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Grease a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Press cinnamon rolls into pan. They will want to pop up so you’ll need to squeeze them together. Keep them pressed down and into the pan and as level as possible. You can easily flatten with your palms.

At this point, you will want to take your baby doll figurine (affiliate) and place it inside the cake. More on that in a bit.

Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 10 minutes before inverting pan on a flat surface and cooling completely before frosting.

To frost, divide frosting in three separate bowls and color each bowl a separate color with color gels. Place icing into a resealable bag but do not seal. Place all 3 bags into the microwave and heat for 15 seconds. Remove from microwave, seal and knead each bag and snip the tip of the bag.

Drizzle the frosting onto the cake. You can re-heat the bags if they thicken after sitting.

Let set for the icing to thicken and serve!

Serves 8-10

What About The Baby?

You might be asking why you need to put a baby into your king cake if this is the first time you are making one and I have a good reason for you. It’s a tradition! The baby inside the New Orleans King Cake symbolizes luck and prosperity to whoever finds it in his/her slice of cake.

SO, when everyone is slicing open that cake and grabbing a piece, the FUN is in the anticipation. WHO HAS THE BABY???

But there’s a CATCH!! Whoever finds the baby ALSO HAS TO get next year’s cake. LOL! So, you get a whole year of good luck and something added to your to-do list. Not a bad trade off, right?

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