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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: Jan. 24, 2011

Turned out great! The dough was really easy to work with. I will use a little less sour cream or a little extra sugar next time. The dough was a little too sour for my taste.

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T Lynn

Reviewed: Jan. 21, 2011

Living near New Orleans and having access to so many bakeries with King Cake, I have to say this just isn't quite right. I would cut the icing in half to begin with. There was too much, making the cake too sweet. But something was missing in the cake flavor itself. While my daughter did like it better than the local grocery store's King Cake and my family did eat it without any problem, I'll look elsewhere for that "great" King Cake recipe.

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MomB

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: Covington, Louisiana, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 7, 2011

This is so good I may double the filling

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hoggle1117

Reviewed: Jan. 6, 2011

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

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Lisa

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: 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: Mar. 9, 2010

yummy even ate next morning for breakfast.

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kimmy schmidt

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: 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. 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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