It’s that festive time of year again where colorful beads and ornate masks are the style, and you just might find a plastic baby in your next piece of cake. That’s right, it’s Mardi Gras!  To celebrate this year, I decided to make a unique King Cake recipe from a recent issue of Louisiana Cookin’ magazine.  This isn’t just any ordinary King Cake, it’s a coffee cake made from crescent rolls and filled with sweet cream cheese, pecans and sliced apples.  And it isn’t a King Cake without the purple, green and gold sanding sugar; purple for justice, green for faith, and gold for power.  However you choose to celebrate this decadent Holiday, I hope it includes a lot of fun…and a lot of Creole cuisine. 

(**Note: I would half the amount of cream cheese suggested to 4 oz. instead of 8 oz.)

(To view this recipe, click on the following link: http://www.louisianacookin.com/carnival-coffee-cake/)

Tagged: apples, Carnival Coffee Cake, cinnamon-sugar, cream cheese, crescent rolls, Holiday, King Cake, Mardi Gras, pecans