KING CAKE BITES

No Mardi Gras celebration is complete without King Cake. In the simplest of terms, King Cake is basically a cinnamon roll. It is a sweet dough with cinnamon and sometimes a filling that is topped with icing and colored sugars. I have a couple of simple King Cake recipes on the blog. This year I went for a bite sized treat with these King Cake Bites.

I took some crescent rolls, sprinkled them with cinnamon, filled them with a yummy sweet cream cheese filling and baked them. I finished them off with some frosting and sugar on top.

One word - AMAZING! We could not stop eating these. They really do taste like little King Cake bites. These would be great for a class party, Fat Tuesday breakfast or just anytime for a treat. We ate these for dessert and breakfast the next day. We warmed them in the microwave for about 5 seconds. Seriously good!

INGREDIENTS:
Bites

• 1 (8oz) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 cans (8 oz each) refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

Glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 Tbsp milk
• yellow, green, purple sugar

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat cream cheese, 1 cup powdered sugar and lemon juice with mixer until well blended.
• Separate dough into 8 rectangles; seal seams. Sprinkle each rectangle with approximately 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.
• Spread cream cheese mixture down middle of each rectangle. Fold each rectangle lengthwise into thirds to enclose filling (bring long edges up to cover cream cheese); cut each into 4 squares. Place, seam-sides down, on baking sheet.
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