Ingredients:
1 pkg. cream cheese softened
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 Tsp. vanilla extract
2 pkg. (8 oz.) refrigerated crescent rolls
1 cup lemon pie filling (your choice, lemon matches the Mardi Gras colors)
Glaze
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tbs. Milk or juice
Colored Sugar - yellow, green, and purple food coloring added to sugar
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°F . Beat cream cheese, sugar, and extract together until smooth. Separate crescent roll pieces of dough and arrange the pieces on 15-inch baking Stone with long points in center. Push the dough together to cover the stone, leaving center open. Spread cream cheese mixture over dough. Top with pie filling. Fold dough around outer edge and also fold tips of dough in center. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.
Mix together powdered sugar and juice with Mini-Whipper until smooth. Put sugar in ziplock bag and add green food coloring knead until well blended. Repeat for each color. Drizzle with glaze, then decorate with sugar alternating Mardi Gras colors.
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Another Recipe
Easy Cinnamon King Cake
2 of the 9.5 oz. Pkg. refrigerated cinnamon rolls (store brand)
colored sugar (green, yellow, and purple)
Preheat oven to 375°F. Unroll each cinnamon roll to make 16 individual strips. Start braiding with 3 strips adding more cinnamon roll pieces when needed to make one long braid. When you finish braiding all cinnamon rolls, form braid into circle or oval and bake on Baking Stone for about 15 minutes. Drizzle with glaze and decorate with colored sugar
Variation -If using Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls, divide the dough into 3 tubes and braid.
From my sister, Mary Lynn (Broussard) Huguet