The Best Cream Cheese King Cake

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This cream cheese king cake recipe is easy to make for celebrating Mardi Gras. If you're looking for a new king cake recipe, you must try this one. Don't forget to put the baby in!

Prep
34 min
Cook
146 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Make dough: Combine sour cream, 1/3 cup sugar, butter, and salt in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook and stir until butter melts, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; let mixture cool to 100 to 110 degrees F (38 to 43 degrees C), about 15 minutes.
  2. 2 Stir together water, yeast, and 1 tablespoon sugar in a 1-cup glass measuring cup; let stand until creamy, about 5 minutes.
  3. 3 Combine sour cream mixture, 2 cups bread flour, yeast mixture, and eggs in the bowl of a heavy-duty electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat at medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Reduce speed to low; gradually add 4 more cups flour, beating until dough comes together.
  4. 4 Turn dough out onto a surface dusted with 1/4 cup flour. Knead, gradually adding remaining 1/2 cup flour, 2 tablespoons at a time, until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Dough should be tacky but release easily from surface.
  5. 5 Place dough in a well-greased bowl; turn to grease the top. Cover; let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
  6. 6 Meanwhile, prepare filling. Beat together cream cheese, sugars, cinnamon, and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in egg until combined. Set aside.
  7. 7 Gently punch dough down; divide in half. Roll 1 portion out into a 22x12-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Keep the other portion covered. Spread 1/2 of the filling over rectangle, leaving a 1-inch border. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup pecans. Carefully roll up, starting from a long edge.
  8. 8 Place roll, seam-side down, on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bring the ends of roll together to form a ring. Moisten the ends with water; pinch together to seal. Repeat with remaining dough, filling, and pecans. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
  9. 9 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Uncover dough rings.
  10. 10 Bake in the preheated oven until cakes are a deep golden brown, about 25 minutes. Cool cakes completely on wire racks, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
  11. 11 Make glaze: Stir together confectioners' sugar, melted butter, and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix in milk until combined. Add additional milk if needed, 1 teaspoon at a time, until pourable but still opaque.
  12. 12 Pour glaze evenly over cakes. Sprinkle with sparkling sugars, alternating colors to form bands.

Nutrition per serving

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