King Cake Bites

Easy King Cake Bites – crescent rolls filled with cinnamon and cream cheese, topped with icing and colored sugar – DELICIOUS! Great for breakfast or dessert!

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!

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Easy King Cake Bites

Author: Plain Chicken

Yield: 32 bites

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 13 minutes mins

Total Time 23 minutes mins

Easy King Cake Bites – crescent rolls filled with cinnamon and cream cheese, topped with icing and colored sugar – DELICIOUS! Great for breakfast or dessert!

Equipment:

• Mixing Bowls
• Hand Mixer
• Chef Knives
• Cutting Board
• Cookie Sheet
• Parchment Paper

Ingredients:

Bites

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

Glaze

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

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• 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 ¼ 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.
• Bake 13 to 15 min. or until golden brown. Cool slightly.
• Mix together remaining 1 cup powdered sugar and milk. Spread on top of King Cake Bites and sprinkle with colored sugars.

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Steph