King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

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Round out your Mardi Gras celebration with a King Cake—a colorful ring-shaped pastry drizzled with green, gold and purple icing. This stunning cake has become the gala holiday’s signature dessert.

King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

Average Rating: 3.666666

TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. Bake: 20 min.
YIELD: 16 servings.

Ingredients

  • 2 tubes (8 ounces each) refrigerated reduced-fat crescent rolls
  • 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup light brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

  • ICING:
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons 2% milk
  • Red, blue, yellow and green food coloring

Instructions

  • 1. Unroll both tubes of crescent dough and separate into triangles. Place triangles on a greased 12-in. pizza pan, forming a ring with pointed ends facing toward the center and wide ends overlapping. Lightly press wide ends together.
  • 2. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spoon over wide ends of ring. In another bowl, stir the brown sugar, butter and cinnamon until crumbly. Sprinkle over cream cheese mixture.
  • 3. Fold points over filling and fold wide ends over points to seal. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes.
  • 4. Meanwhile, combine the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve desired consistency. Divide icing among three bowls. Using red and blue food coloring, tint one portion purple. Tint another portion yellow and the remaining portion green. Drizzle over cake. Serve warm.

Nutrition Facts

1 piece: 184 calories, 8g fat (3g saturated fat), 9mg cholesterol, 275mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (16g sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein.
Diabetic Exchanges:
1-1/2 starch, 1-1/2 fat.

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