How to Make Authentic King Cake at Home
Pastry Chef Maggie Scales of Cochon Butcher and La Boulangerie bakes a buttery brioche cake with a cinnamon filling that is drizzled with a vanilla sugar icing
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Cooking tools:
- Stand mixer
- Rolling pin
- Oven
- Refrigerator
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Kitchen towel
- Plastic wrap
- Mixing bowl
- Spatula
- Measuring cup
- Measuring spoon
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups bread flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- Pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon yeast
- ½ cup water
- 6 each eggs
- 2½ sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- King Cake Icing (recipe follows)
- Cinnamon Filling
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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