King Cake Crescent Food

EMERIL'S QUICK KING CAKE

Steps:

• After opening the can of crescent rolls, unroll in one piece. With your fingers, press seams together to form one piece of dough.
• Mix together butter and cinnamon, gently spread over the dough.
• Mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Drop teaspoons over the top of the dough. Drop teaspoonfuls of pie filling (cherry, blueberry or peach) over the dough as you did the cream cheese.
• Starting on the long end, carefully roll the dough, horizontally, with the filling and cream cheese inside. Insert plastic baby at any place within the dough.
• Place on baking pan with the seam side down in a circle, pinching the ends together.
• Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
• While the cake is baking, use the food coloring to dye the sugar.
• When cake is cool, pour icing over the top of the cake. Sprinkle with the colored sugar, alternating the three colors as you go around the circle.
• For icing: Combine 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp water until smooth.

KING CAKE CRESCENT

Steps:

• Arrange crescent rolls in a circle on the surface of a round pan with the points of the dough to the outside. Press the dough in the bottom of the pan together, and cut a circle out in the middle of the pan to form a ring. (Note, dough should form about a 12 inch circle when finished.).
• In a bowl, mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Spread the mixture evenly over the dough - don't cover the circle in the middle. Thinly slice and peel apple, the place apple slices over the cream cheese mixture and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
• Chop pecans and sprinkle over the apples.
• Pull points of dough over filling and tuck under dough in center of the ring.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes.
• For glaze, mix about 1/2 - 3/4 cup of powdered sugar with a small amount of water to form a thick mixture. Pour the glaze over the cake and sprinkle with colored sugar.
• Make colored sugar by mixing 6-8 drops of green food coloring with 1/3 cup of granular sugar, 6-8 drops of yellow food coloring with 1/3 cup sugar, and 4-6 drops of red and 4-6 drops of blue food coloring to 1/3 cup of sugar for purple sugar. (Pre-colored cake decors can also be used if you want to save a little time).