St Patrick Day Party Foods – Try Homemade Mardi Gras King Cake
For your St Patrick Day party foods, make my all-time favorite easy-to-make King Cake recipe with crescent rolls from the best Louisiana cookbook!. Green food ideas may be hard to find but not with my most popular recipe,. My solution is my EASY KING CAKE with Green Icing. Luscious cream cheese with cinnamon and brown sugar filling, it doesn’t get much better than this yummy recipe you can quickly whip up at home. For brunch, snack or dessert, this will add to your amazing St Patrick Day Dessert recipes. You can also turn my Crawfish King Cake into a St. Paddy’s Day food. March is also National Nutrition Month so green vegetables are easy to include with these green recipes!
| Servings 16 servings |
- 2 (8-ounce) cans reduced-fat crescent rolls
- 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- Mardi Gras Icing
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven 350°F. Coat 10-inch round pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Separate crescent rolls at perforations, into 16 slices. Place slices around prepared pan with points in center. About halfway down from points, press seams together.
- In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Spread on dough in center where seams have been pressed together.
- In another small bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon with fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over cream cheese. Fold dough points over filling and then fold bottom of triangle over points forming a circular roll like a king cake.
- Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly and drizzle with colored Mardi Gras Icing.
| Servings |
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1-2 tbsp skim milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- green food coloring
Ingredients
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- In small bowl, combine all ingredients. Drizzle over baked cooled cake.
My Most Requested Recipe Makes St Patrick Day Dessert Recipes
I turn to my book with Louisiana and southern recipes, Gulf Coast Favorites for my most requested recipe. Easy King Cake made with crescent rolls and ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen! People all over say they prefer this easy and fun-to-make king cake more than store bought ones. Perfect for St Patrick day party foods.
So, now with green food coloring, make my king cake for your St Patrick Day dessert recipes. My cookbook, GULF COAST FAVORITES includes super-simple southern recipes to enjoy in your own home, wherever you live. And, don’t forget about the Crawfish King Cake Recipe and just sprinkle with cheese tossed in green food coloring and you’re ready for St. Paddy’s Day food. GET COOKBOOK: SHOP with Promo code LA25 (25%off) for autographed Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook
Kids Love to Help Make St. Patrick’s Day King Cake
Made with crescent rolls and green food coloring, let the kids make this one with you. Fun and fantastic for adults and kids, this recipe you will make over and over.
All you need is green food coloring, a few minutes to put together and you have amazing St Patrick Day Dessert recipes and green food ideas. Make my famous CRAWFISH KING CAKE from my new cookbook, Guy’s Guide To Eating Well. Use green food coloring on the cheese to get into the St. Paddy’s spirit. Talk about the best of Louisiana cooking!
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More Green Food Ideas with Green Red Velvet Cake
Some more fun St Patrick Day Party foods. Also, from my Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook, the classic Red Velvet Cake goes green to get you into the St Patrick Day spirit! This easy green dessert recipe is one of the best ever, and by adding green food coloring you have the best southern red velvet cake turned green. Here’s the recipe for my Green Red Velvet Cake! Of course, don’t forget the greens like kale and cucumber when looking for green nutritious recipes.
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crescent rolls and cake??? doesnt get much better than that!!!
I am 24 years old and was recently diagnosed with pre type 2 diabetes in the fall. As soon as King Cake season came around it made me depressed to go to the stores and see the King Cakes covered in sugar and filled with overly sweetened fillings that I shouldn’t be eatting. I was SO happy to see your lower fat, lower sugar recipe on your blog (the cresent roll one) I made it tonight and it was AMAZING! It was easy to make and delicious. You are my new hero! Thank you so much! Sincerely, Kourtney Davison 🙂 p.s. my whole family loved it too! It was a big hit! My sister in law from NEW ORLEANS said it’s the best she’s ever had!
Love this idea, I am going to tweet this link. Happy Mardi Gras.
I couldn’t wait to make the king cake with crescent rolls last night after your newsletter came out with that recipe. It was awesome. My husband said it was the best king cake he has ever had. I even shoved a plastic baby in there. I will definitely make that recipe again–in fact having another new crew of people this evening and I am making another king cake.