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Easy Mini King Cake Bites

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Easy Mini King Cake Bites are a quick treat to celebrate Mardi Gras. Make with a few convenience items, you can have them ready in no time!

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Easy Mini King Cake bites are a fun treat for Mardi Gras.Mardi Gras is upon us. A King Cake is a well-known tradition. Mardi Gras is the culmination of the season of carnival that begins on Epiphany and ends the day before Ash Wednesday, or Fat Tuesday.

Depending on where you live, the King Cake has different versions. Most familiar to us in the United States is a sweet twisted cinnamon roll style dough topped with icing or sugar. Mardi Gras is fun and festive and these individual King Cakes are a nice addition to any celebration.

These mini King cakes are bite size treats packed with cinnamon sugar then drizzled with a sweet glaze and topped with decorator sugars in the traditional colors of Mardi Gras – purple, green and gold. They will disappear quickly so you may want to double the recipe, which is easy to do since this recipe starts with refrigerated crescent rolls. Enjoy these for breakfast or dessert.

I usually always have cinnamon sugar in a shaker in my pantry for my kids to use on toast or bagels. It’s easy to make. I mix three tablespoons of sugar with one teaspoon of ground cinnamon.

Check out my fun mini version Mardi Gras Cupcake too.

 

Easy Mini King Cake Bites

Easy Mini King Cake Bites

Yield: 14 mini King Cakes
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 27 minutes

King Cake is a Mardi Gras tradition. This mini version is a fun treat.

Ingredients

  • 1 tube refrigerated crescent rolls
  • 6 teaspoons cinnamon sugar
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans (optional)

For glaze:

  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Purple, green and yellow decorating sugars

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray mini muffin pans (you will need 2) with baking cooking spray. Set aside.
  2. Unroll crescent rolls and place on cutting board. Separate at vertical perforations, pinching the diagonal perforations together well. You should have 4 rectangles. Sprinkle each rectangle evenly with about 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon sugar and 1 tablespoon of the pecans, if using. Starting at long end roll up jelly roll style pinching seam well. Repeat with each rectangle. Cut into 28 total pieces.
  3. Place 2 pieces in each mini muffin cup. Snuggle them in together. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 10 - 12 minutes, until golden. Remove pans to cooling rack. Cool completely in pan. Remove when cool.
  4. To make glaze:
  5. Combine glaze ingredients in a bowl until drizzling consistency. Swirl glaze covering tops of each mini cake. Do about half and then sprinkle those with purple, green and yellow decorator sugars. Repeat with remaining.
© Ellen Folkman and Family Around the Table
Category: Breakfast and Brunch
King Cake is a Mardi Gras tradition. This mini version is a fun treat.

 

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  3. Dannii says

    I ate so many of these when I was in New Orleans. I am definitely going to have to try making them myself!

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  17. swathi says

    I like this mini king cake. I think this make me less guilty indulging this treat. King cake is my do list for long time now never tried it because nobody there to finish big cake.I will try your recipe.

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