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Does anyone have an "easy" recipe for an Ephiphany cake - preferably one with no candied fruit or nuts (or where these can be left out)
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I don't know what easy means to you, but I think this one is fairly easy. It's more of breakfast cake so we're going to have it at brunch this year. I hope you're well!
SCAVONA KINGS’ CAKE
Sweet Dough
3 eggs (room temperature)
5 cups all- purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar & nbsp; & nbsp;
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter
2 packages dry yeast
1 cup milk &n bsp; &n bsp;
1/4 cup warm water (105 degrees)
Plastic Baby (about 1” long, found at craft stores)
Egg Wash
Beat together one egg and one tablespoon of water.
PREHEAT OVEN TO 350 DEGREES
1. Sprinkle yeast in warm water. Mix. Let soften. Stir, then let sit about 5
minutes, until light and bubbly.
2. Scald milk. Remove from stove. Melt butter in warm mild.
3. In large bowl beat eggs.
4. Add sugar, salt and dissolved yeast to eggs.
5. Add milk mixture. Beat well.
6. Stir in flour. Beat well. Dough will be soft.
7. Place dough into large buttered bowl. Cover with a towel, put in a draft-free
place and let rise until double in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours.
8. Turn dough out on floured board and knead 10-12 times.
9. Roll dough out to 24 x 10-inches.
10. Brush with melted butter.
11. Top with filling.
12. Roll dough with filling like a jelly roll. The roll should be 24 inches long.
13. Seal edges with egg wash.
14. Place on a large greased cookie sheet.
15. Push baby into Kings’ Cake.
16. Pressing ends together seal.
17. Brush Kings’ Cake with egg wash.
18. Cover with a towel, put in warm place to rise until double in size - 45 minutes.
19. Bake in the middle of preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
20. Remove from oven and cool.
21. Top with frosting.
22. Sprinkle with colored sugar over top of cake
FILLINGS FOR KINGS’ CAKE
Cream Cheese Filling
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 egg, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
1. Combine all ingredients until well blended.
Cinnamon and Sugar Filling
1 1/2 cups sugar & nbsp; & nbsp;
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon cinnamon
1. Combine all ingredients.
Pineapple Raisin Filling
1 can (1 pound 4 ounce) crushed pineapple, well drained
1 tablespoon cornstarch
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins
1. Combine sugar and cornstarch. Add pineapple and raisins and mix well.
*You may also use pie filling from the store.
FROSTING FOR KINGS’ CAKE
1 box powdered sugar, sifted
3 to 4 tablespoons milk or water
1 stick butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Blend until smooth. Add more milk,
a few drops at a time, until frosting is spreading consistency or drizzling consistency.
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Marilyn, This is the easiest recipe I've found, because it's literally a "cake" and doesn't require rising. It's more of a spice cake, and no nuts. Last year I made flour substitutions, and since there are no eggs and milk it made it easy for me.
Allergy King Cake.
You might try different cultures for a recipe that isn't a bread. I always leave out citron or candied fruit. Can you do currants and raisins?
France, round and flat:Galette des Rois
Gateau des Rois
England:
Twelfth Cake
Twelfth Day Cake
An easy bread version: Spanish King's Bread
Catholic Culture has many more recipes.
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If you feel like making bread, here's my recipe from last year: Rosca de Reyes
This year, I'm being somewhat lazy, plus I have some leftover store-bought puff pastry in the freezer, so I'll probably make this recipe:
Dorie Greenspan's Galette des Rois using puff pastry
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I found this on an old thread.
Easy King Cake:
2 8-oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
2/3 c. confectioners' sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 tsp. vanilla or almond extract
2 cans (8 oz. each) refrig. crescent rolls
1/2 can pie filling
Preheat oven to 350. Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg yolks and extract together until smooth. Remove rolls from cans & arrange around baking stone or cookie sheet with points toward the center. Push the dough together leaving center open.
Spread cream cheese mixture on dough. Top with pie filling. Fold dough over mixture & seal. Bruch with beaten egg white. Bake 25-30 min. until golden brown. Drizzled with glaze & sprinkle with color sugar.
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Thank you all for the recipes and links. I am debating Jenn's allergy cake or a spice cake with whipped topping and candies on the top.
My 8 year old has come up with a great idea I might consider too - some kind of white cake in a bundt pan. Frost with butter icing and stick icecream cones upside down around the cake. Stick candies and chocolate around the cones as jewels.
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I think I'm going to just make a regular cake (ala Betty Crocker) and call it a Kings' Cake! They'll never know the difference!
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MarilynW wrote:
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Good idea on the Bundt cake. Didn't we talk about this before, that there are lovely new designs of round "Bundt-style" pans that resemble crowns? Costco had some for sale earlier in Advent (that's the last time I've been there). Very simple, but the round, crown like shape won't be lost on the children!
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So how was everyone's cake?
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I did a bundt white cake with sugar cones on the top, and candies stuck on with a simple butter frosting. I can try to link a picture once I download it from my camera.
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Mine was good, but I forgot that you don't roll it like a cinnamon roll, just join the seams around the filling, so there were some gooey parts. We put in 3 gold dollars which the kids loved.
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