Madison's Corner

Alright, before I show you how to make this awesome cake, I should first tell you my inspiration.

The Louisiana style King Cake: "A cinnamon-roll like cake inside with sugary icing with traditional Mardi Gras colored sprinkles on the outside.The cake has a small trinket (often a small plastic baby) inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has lucky prosperous Year"

Actual Mardi Gras in 2011 is starting on Feb 19th, and the celebration continues through till the day before Ash Wednesday or March 8th. I could go on about the traditions of Mardi Gras, but that would be another subject. Lets get to the cake!

Although a true authentic king cake is much more complicated to make, this one is not, and it is by far the easiest no fuss, no mixing cake I have ever made.....and so yummy!

Here's my version of a New Orleans King Cake for Kids

To begin you only need 3 ingredients for the cake:
2 packages of Pilsbury Cresent Rolls
3 Tbs butter or Margerine
Brown Sugar 


Ingredients of the Frosting/decorations:
1 package of Betty Crocker Icing-either white cookie icing or Cream Cheese frosting......PS I prefer the Cream Cheese.
3 different color Sugar Sprinkles-  I used Blue, Pink and Yellow*

*traditional Mardi colors are purple, green and gold. Purple represents justice; Green = faith; and Gold = power.


1. Preheat Oven to 350
2. Unroll the Cresent Rolls and Seperate. Using a bunt pan line all of the cresent rolls up as shown, over lapping just a little bit. PS I did have about 3 extra rolls when I was finished with this step.




 3.  Next add melted butter and sprinkle browns sugar into the center.
4. Now add your trinket. In my case I used a little pony (don't use anytoy that has that thin plastic stringy hair). Starting at the Outside fold the Cresent Rolls into the center, making sure to cover your trinket.
5. When finished with the outside, then fold the center over.




6. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes:
7. Decorate with Icing and Sprinkles.
8. Eat and Enjoy. I prefer to it it when it is still warm, but It is good cold too. The person who ends up getting the trinket will have a lucky prosperous year!