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King Cake in a Bread Machine

“Make your Mardi Gras king cake using your bread machine to mix and knead the dough. Fill the dough with a buttery cinnamon-pecan filling, bake, and decorate with a frosting glaze and the time-honored purple, green, and yellow colored sugar. It's traditional to stick a little plastic baby or a bean into the cake before baking. The lucky one whose slice has the prize gets to make the king cake next year.”

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Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2010

I didn't have any nuts on hand, so I omitted those and it still turned out great. The family loved it!

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Marilynn

Reviewed: Feb. 15, 2010

This was my first time using a bread machine and the result was fantastic! I doubled the amount of filling and substituted brown sugar instead of white sugar (for the filling only), but other than that, I followed the recipe exactly and it came out fabulously!

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pushbuttonkitty

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Sulphur, Louisiana, USA

Living In: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 16, 2010

I brought this to a Carnival brunch today and it was a big hit! This recipe was so easy and tasted great! The only changes I made were to the filling. I mixed 8 oz of cream cheese with 1/2 c. of brown sugar, and it turned out really well. Powdered sugar would probably be great too, but I didn't have enough after making the glaze. Any type of fruit pie filling or chocolate is also really good. For the glaze on top of the cake, I added another 1/2 cup of powdered sugar to make it really thick so it wouldn't all run off the cake and pool up on the sides. Overall, I'd say this recipe is a keeper!

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aucubs23

Reviewed: Feb. 17, 2010

AMAZING! Moist and delicious. I'd give it the same rating even without the filling.

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EndoMom

Reviewed: Feb. 19, 2010

I baked two King Cakes for Mardi Gras this year. One was from this recipe. People thought they were from a bakery (first plus), but people absolutely raved about this one. One coworker told me this was the best cake she had ever eaten. I will definitely make this again. It's so convenient, too, to be able to make the dough in a bread machine. Thanks for a keeper!

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Pam-3BoysMama

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 5, 2010

I made monkey bread using this recipe. It was the best ever. Exactly the dough I was looking for, light moist and wonderfully tasty. Added a little cinnamon to the dough and then just made monkey bread as usual. I am going to try it for cinnamon rolls also.

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GRAMMA44

Reviewed: Apr. 17, 2010

So simple but has great flavor and texture. I do not recommend cream cheese or fruit filling because I think it affects the texture a bit. Lovely dough and very easy to work with. Mine took an extra ten minutes in the oven but maybe that's because i used wetter fillings which i will not do again. I highly recommend this recipe.

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COOKINBIGMEALSEVERYDAY

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jan. 6, 2011

quick and easy king cake recipe that tastes good-substituted brown sugar for filling

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Lisa

Reviewed: Jan. 7, 2011

This is so good I may double the filling

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hoggle1117

Reviewed: Mar. 8, 2011

Excellent! Very easy! Pretty much followed recipe exactly. Just used 1/2 Cup brown sugar for filling and left out the butter in icing and also, didn't sprinkle sugar on top. It is like a cinnamon roll. Very yummy! Will be making again.

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