King Cake with Cream Cheese Cinnamon Filling

King Cake with Cream Cheese Cinnamon Filling! Now, you can make this quick king cake recipe in your own home, wherever you live, without worrying about a complicated yeast dough.

Ingredients

Mardi Gras King Cake:

• 2 (8-ounce) cans reduced-fat crescent rolls
• 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
• 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/3 cup light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Mardi Gras Icing:

• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1 to 2 tablespoons skim milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Yellow, green, red, and blue food coloring

Foodie Byte: Think of this as a year round holiday treat: for the icing — use red food coloring for Valentine’s Day, pastel colors for Easter, and red and green colors for Christmas.

Instructions

To prepare cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. Separate crescent rolls at perforations into 16 slices.
3. On 10-inch round pizza pan coated with nonstick cooking spray, place slices around pan with points in center. About half way down from the points, press seams together.
4. In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla until creamy.
5. Spread cream cheese mixture on dough in center where seams of dough have been pressed together.
   In another small bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon with fork until crumbly.
6. Sprinkle over cream cheese.
   old dough points over cream cheese area and then fold bottom of triangle over points, forming a circular roll like a king cake.
7. Bake 20–25 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Cool slightly, drizzle with colored Mardi Gras Icing.

To prepare Mardi Gras Icing:

1. In small bowl, mix together confectioners’ sugar, milk, and vanilla.
2. Divide mixture into three bowls.
3. In first bowl, add a few drops yellow food coloring. In second bowl, add a few drops green food coloring.
4. In third bowl, add equal amount of red and blue food coloring (will create purple color).

Originally published at www.foodchannel.com.