King Cake
-New Orleans CB Dough of your choice for -1 large coffee cake -(approximate proportions: 2 oz Fresh compressed yeast Or 4 pk Active dry yeast 4 c =TO= 5 c Flour 1 c Lukewarm scalde...
Ingredients
- 4cup =to=
- 5cup flour
- 1cup lukewarm scalded milk
- 3/4cup sugar
- 1tsp salt
- 5eggs
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4cup salted butter)
Directions
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New Orleans CB Dough of your choice for -1 large coffee cake -(approximate proportions: 2 oz Fresh compressed yeast Or 4 pk Active dry yeast
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Sprinkle the top of the cake evenly with sugar and make swirls with food coloring all over the top, with the swirl of one color slightly ove
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Imbed the the pieces of candied fruit in the top of the cake, con- centrating most of them in a band about 1-1/4" wide all the way around
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Set the cake on a baking sheet and bake according to instructions in the recipe you use
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The finished cake should be lightly browned wherever the dough shows through
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the parts covered with colored sugar should appear slightly crust
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The cakes that you purchase in the local bakeries do not have the fruit on them
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Dimensions-Shape-an oval ring about 2-1/2" thick and about 3" high at the highest point