Posted January 09, 2018 at 06:00 AM | Updated January 09, 2018 at 06:06 AM
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Melinda Morris
Should you make king cake at home? That's up to you. (Although NOLA.com's food writer Ann Maloney doesn't even try it). But if you're going to do it, perhaps avoid these recipes...
'Quick and easy': a dead giveaway
Unfortunately, king cake is not quick and easy to make. So if someone offers you a quick-and-easy king cake recipe, it's not king cake. This one for "Quick and Easy Mardi Gras Cake'' has three ingredients: canned cinnamon rolls, cream cheese and colored sugar. If you want to make a real king cake, click here.
King cake made out of ... biscuits
This recipe from Delish.com uses three rolls of refrigerated buttermilk biscuits to form the king cake. This is forgivable only if you are making king cake with a class of preschoolers.
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NOLA.com
King cake made with applesauce and wheat flour
This Skinny King Cake recipe from Sheknows.com calls for whole wheat flour, and not just applesauce, but unsweetened applesauce. And it's stuffed with light cream cheese. And flaked coconut. Is that king cake?
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NOLA.com
How low can you go
Popculture.com wants you to use reduced-fat refrigerated crescent rolls and reduced-fat cream cheese for this king cake recipe to make "a traditional New Orleans King Cake, the Skinny Mom way."