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Bananas Foster II

Submitted by: BUTTERMEBREAD

Bananas are cooked in a bubbling pan of dark brown sugar, butter, rum and cinnamon and served over ice cream with walnuts in this elegant, quick dessert.

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Pig Picking Cake III

Submitted by: NELL 2

This is my daughters favorite. It is an easy mandarin orange cake with pineapple, nuts, pudding and whipped topping. Whip one up and it's pig-out time!

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Jim's Apple Raisin Pound Cake with Praline Glaze

Submitted by: JimJimmy

Home Town: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Living In: Perry, Georgia, USA

A rich, moist cake flavored with apples, raisins, allspice, and pecans gets a warm caramel glaze chock-full of more pecans.

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A sweet yeast dough is rolled up around a filling of cinnamon, sugar, and pecans, coiled into rings, and baked. It's glazed and topped with purple, green, and gold sugars--or you can decorate cakes with pecans and cherries. Don't forget the plastic baby!

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Microwave Pralines

Submitted by: MARY GAIL

Brown sugar, cream, salt, margarine and pecans are microwaved then flavored with vanilla and dropped onto waxed paper to cool into bite sized pralines.

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Cajun Cake

Provided by: Kitty

This cake was born on the bayou. It has a caramel pecan sauce that soaks into the cake..

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Pralines

Submitted by: MARKR

Pecans in a sugar candy coating. Simple and elegant.

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Bananas Foster I

Provided by: Chrissi

Bananas in a cinnamon-caramel sauce flavored with rum, served warm over ice cream.

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Praline Sundae Topping

Submitted by: ADDO

This can be served warm or cold over ice cream. Store in refrigerator.

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King Cake in a Bread Machine

Submitted by: SUZZANNA

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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Pig Picking Cake II

Provided by: Claudia Hamilton

Mandarin oranges in the cake and pineapple, pecans and coconut in the filling. From living down south and all the get-togethers for Pig Picking, this cake is a sure winner with people from the Southerners as well as the Northerners. This cake brings us all together.

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Texas Pralines

Provided by: Wendi661

Delicious chewy pecan pralines we make every year for Christmas!

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Super Easy Mardi Gras King Cake

Submitted by: BUDDHAFULDREAMER

Living In: Rockwall, Texas, USA

Prepared sweet roll dough and colorful frostings speed up the cake baking process for a Mardi Gras King Cake. A small plastic baby inserted into the side of the cake will bring good luck in the coming year to whoever discovers it in their slice. Beads, additional plastic babies, curly ribbon, and other festive trinkets can be used to decorate the cake.

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Sugar-Free Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Submitted by: KJEPPESE

A classic bread pudding recipe made with raisins and broiled with a creamy whiskey sauce before serving. This bread pudding recipe is from the famous Bon Ton Cafe in New Orleans, modified to use sucralose sweetener.

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Cajun Sweet Dough

Provided by: Julie P.

This dough is so good you'll be tempted to just bake it up without any filling. Regardless of what you decide to put inside, the outside is sweet and delicious and bakes up beautifully.

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Yummy Pecan Pralines

Submitted by: SARATHERESA

Pecans are cooked to the soft ball stage with brown sugar, white sugar, evaporated milk and butter and then beaten and poured on a slab to firm up in these sweet, chewy candies.

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Pie Snacking Cake

Provided by: Lorna

A moist and fruity cake that 's' a snap to make! Serve it warm from the oven with a scoop of ice cream of a dollop of whipped cream.

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Semlor (Semla)

Submitted by: ZONIGUANA

Home Town: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany

Living In: Barrington, New Hampshire, USA

These Swedish marzipan and whipped cream filled cardamom buns are traditionally served on Fat Tuesday. Nowadays they are happily eaten as often as they can be found. We love that these are not too sweet, and are just big enough.

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Doberge Cake (Dobash)

Submitted by: Summer1227

Doberge Cake is a traditional Louisiana cake, just right for Mardi Gras. The thin layers of white cake are spread with chocolate pudding, and the whole cake is iced with homemade chocolate frosting.

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Doberge Cake

Submitted by: metread

Living In: Pineville, Louisiana, USA

Six layers of homemade cake are filled with chocolate custard, frosted with chocolate buttercream, and glazed with chocolate ganache in this New Orleanian classic.