King Cake Bubble Up

King Cake Bubble Up – We loved this!! Cinnamon rolls, eggs, milk, vanilla and cream cheese. Ready in 30 minutes. Better than any store-bought King Cake we’ve had! Can serve warm or room temperature. We ate way too much of this! Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

King Cake Bubble Up - We loved this!! Cinnamon rolls, eggs, milk, vanilla and cream cheese. Ready in 30 minutes. Better than any store-bought King Cake we've had! Can serve warm or room temperature. We ate way too much of this! Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

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Mardi Gras is going on right now. We only have a couple of weeks until Fat Tuesday and the start of Lent. One of my favorite Mardi Gras treats is King Cake. We usually buy one at the grocery store for our at-home celebration. This year I am making this King Cake Bubble Up. OMG! This King Cake Bubble Up is out of this world good! A million times better than the store-bought ones we usually eat. You can eat this for breakfast or as a dessert. We did both! It tastes great warm or at room temperature.

If you want to make this ahead of time, I would suggest baking it and refrigerating it until ready to serve. You can cover it with foil and reheat it for your party. We didn’t hide a baby in the bubble up, but you certainly can! Laissez les bons temps rouler!

**NOTE: I used regular refrigerated Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. NOT the Grands! cinnamon rolls. The Grands! are larger and the dough won’t cook through. Make sure to use the regular Pillsbury cinnamon rolls in this recipe!**

King Cake Bubble Up - We loved this!! Cinnamon rolls, eggs, milk, vanilla and cream cheese. Ready in 30 minutes. Better than any store-bought King Cake we've had! Can serve warm or room temperature. We ate way too much of this! Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

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King Cake Bubble Up

Yield: 12 people
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
King Cake Bubble Up – We loved this!! Cinnamon rolls, eggs, milk, vanilla and cream cheese. Ready in 30 minutes. Better than any store-bought King Cake we’ve had! Can serve warm or room temperature. We ate way too much of this! Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

Ingredients:

  • 2 (12.4-oz) cans refrigerated Pillsbury cinnamon rolls
  • 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, softened
  • cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup milk
  • purple yellow, green sugar

Instructions:

  • Preheat oven to 375ºF. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray.
  • Separate cinnamon rolls, save icing to use after the bubble up is baked. Cut each cinnamon roll into 4 pieces. Place in bottom on prepared pan.
  • Using a hand held electric mixer, beat together cream cheese and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing well. Add milk and mix until combined. Pour over chopped cinnamon rolls.
  • Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Spread cinnamon roll icing over top of casserole. Sprinkle with colored sugar.

Steph

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  1. I just made 5 of these (3 for my son’s high school French class). They turned out great. I do wonder if anyone has tried it in a Bundt pan so that it would turn out in a ring. If so did it change the cooking time?
    I will make again.

  2. Hubby and I are from south Louisiana (Baton Rouge and New Orleans). This recipe is amazing. I serve it all year round as a breakfast treat.

  3. The bubble cake is awesome. I made this recipe for a party I attended for Mardi Gras. My husband loves it so much that I’m making it again this weekend. I’m sure I’ll be making it for a long time to come.

  4. I made the bubble cake receipe for a Mardi Gras party. It was a big hit. My husband loves it. Im making it again this weekend and will for a long time to come.

  5. I cut the recipe/ingredients in half I’m a single person. While it wasn’t what I expected I enjoyed it. The texture was more like custard? I thought it would be more like a king cake with a cream cheese filling.

    I would make again for a pot luck!

    1. Grands are 16-oz and I only used 12-oz of biscuits. Using more biscuits may cause the mixture not to set and the biscuits to be raw.

  6. I’m about to make it for my second time. Last time I cooked it, I colored plain sugar using food coloring! It worked great!! Hoping my cream cheese turns out smoother this time, I’m wondering if I need to leave the cream cheese out to soften longer!

    1. I leave mine out room temp and then microwave for about 20 seconds then mix in with the eggs/milk mixture with my blender until it’s smooth.

  7. This was delicious. I added cinnamon to the cream cheese mixture. Reminiscent of a bread pudding, the whole family loved it.

  8. Just make sure to mix the cream cheese really well. I suggest using a hand-held mixer. I haven't had this happen when I make it.

  9. I am wanting to make this but add in some pie filling, like cherry. Do you think I would need to change the baking time? I am hoping that this will work and am excited to try this recipe!

    1. Here was my experience:
      1. The pie filling was delicious. I had to bake it for about 40 minutes.
      2. I used a store brand cinnamon roll that was the spiral kind instead of shaped like a biscuit like the Pillsbury ones are. So I cut the rolls into little bite sized pieces. I think this made too much breading and the cheesecake filling did not soak through.
      3. I used a food processor to mix the filling ingredients. I don't know if this made it more liquidy but it was.

      It almost had a consistency of a bread pudding after baking. I think when I make it again, I might mix all of the ingredients slightly to make sure the cheese cake filling is all throughout instead of mainly on top. Very good. Everyone at my Bible study loved it! My husband said it was like dessert crack!

  10. Does the filling go in between a top layer and a bottom layer of the quartered cinnamon rolls or just right on top? I know the recipe says on top but the picture looks different to me…and I can't wait to make this!

  11. It would probably be blasphemous for me to take this to my next king cake party (I live in New Orleans) but this looks so good I may just have to do it!

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