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Not so good and much work & time....,
October 11, 2009
By dbaker311
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"OK this was A LOT of work & expensive to buy all the ingredients. Very dry texture when consumed, bland to the pallet as in no flavor and really, it's a Cheese Danish with colored sugar on top--which by the way--was WAY TOO SWEET. No need to sprinkle granulated sugar on top of icing. If you make regular white icing, sprinkle sliced almonds on it & minus the lemon IT IS A CHEESE DANISH! I thought King Cake was more akin to what we call up north Snake or Cinnamon Buns, but as I stated before, this was more like a dry Cheese Danish with not nearly enough flavor nor cream cheese filling.
I will try it again, but as mother would say, the recipe needs some 'doctoring up.'
This what I would recommend;
instead of 1/4 tsp of nutmeg in the dough, a full tsp & in addition, 3-4 tsp of cinnamon (this will make the dough & end product darker and not so white bread looking, whole cup of melted butter not a half would help with the dryness & tough texture, double the cream-cheese filling & 1st lay down melted butter and cinnamon sugar (when stretched out into the rectangle on the bench) like cinnamon buns so it's really a King Cake, or you can do away with the cream cheese filling totally. Split the icing into 3 equal parts & use food coloring so it's not too sweet and consider splitting the dough into 2 equal parts to make 2 rings: it was way too big as one single ring, it nearly didn't fit in my home oven! Also, bake it at 300° for same amount of time, 350° was too high and made it dry. When I do it this way I shall post the results. Good Luck!"
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