5 hours ago, Smithy said:@kayb, those are lovely. Brioche dough, eh? Maybe I should try making a King Cake. But then I'd have to figure out who would get them. Goot a link to your recipe?
I’ve made them so long my recipe is kind of ingrained. One recipe makes two cakes.
dough:
about 6 cups AP flour
1 cup milk
1 stick butter
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs, beaten
2 tsp vanilla flavoring
2/3 cup warm water
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp yeasr
mix yeast with water and 2 tbsp sugar. Set aside.
in bowl of stand mixer, combine flour, sugar, salt.
heat in microwave for 90 seconds butter and milk. Let cool a bit.
beat together eggs and vanilla.
add wet ingredients to dry and mix. Add flour in small increments as needed to make a soft sough. Knead 10 minutes or so.
put in oiled bowl to rise.
FILLING
12 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar.
let cream cheese soften, then beat with sugar until light.
after dough has risen, divide into tow equal parts. Take one part, knead and shape into rectangle. Roll out into 12 x 20 or so shape.
Brushh with melted butter. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixture. Spoon half of cream cheese mixture along one long side.
roll up into cylinder. Stretch out to about 24 inches. Form into circle, using milk or half and half to moisten ends and fuse together.
Bake 30 minutes @ 350. Cool on rack. When cool, stick a baby in from the bottom.
glaze with 2 cups powdered sugar whisked with 3-4 tbsp of half and half. Pour over cooled cake. Decorate with colored sugar.
