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King Cake Pull-Apart Muffins

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Girl Who Ate Everything
Updated May 20, 2022
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Layers of buttery cinnamon sugar goodness packed into a muffin and drizzled with Mardi Gras-colored frosting and edible glitter.

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  • How about some magnificent Mardi Gras morning muffins? You can bet your beautiful beads we've got 'em! It's time for Mardi Gras, and you can't celebrate Mardi Gras without a King Cake. But instead of the traditional King Cake, these King Cake Pull-Apart Muffins are individually portioned, cinnamon sugary bites of heaven drizzled with an ample amount of Mardi Gras colored frosting. Your friends will love pulling these apart layer by layer. You'll want to savor each and every bite.

King Cake Pull-Apart Muffins

  • Prep Time 15 min
  • Total 35 min
  • Servings 6
  • Ingredients 8
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Ingredients

  • 1 can (11 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original French Bread
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
  • Purple, green and yellow food coloring
  • Edible gold sprinkles

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a muffin tin with cooking spray.
  • Step 
    2
    In a skillet, brown the butter over medium-low heat for about 5 minutes. The butter will turn a caramel color and smell nutty. (Watch it carefully because it can quickly go from browned to burned.) Set aside to cool.
  • Step 
    3
    In a small bowl combine the sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside for later.
  • Step 
    4
    Open the bread dough and place on a cutting board. Using a sharp knife, make a small slit to score the dough at the middle point of the roll, so that there are two equal sections. Then score each section again in the middle. Repeat, scoring sections at the halfway point, until you have 31 slits in the dough. Using a very sharp serrated knife, slice the dough into discs using these score marks as guides.
  • Step 
    5
    Place all the slices on a large sheet of wax or parchment paper and flatten with a rolling pin.
  • Step 
    6
    Brush each disc of dough with the melted butter. Dip buttered slices into the cinnamon sugar mixture. Add any remaining butter and sugar mixture to the prepared muffin tin. Stack 5-6 pieces of dough on top of each other. Slice each stack in half.
  • Step 
    7
    Place both sections cut side down in a muffin tin. Repeat with remaining dough until all cups of the muffin tin are filled.
  • Step 
    8
    Place muffin tin onto a large rimmed cookie sheet to catch any sugar or butter overflow. Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Allow muffins to cool for 10 minutes in the pan.
  • Step 
    9
    Place 1/4 cup of vanilla frosting in 3 separate microwave-safe bowls. Color one bowl of frosting purple, one green and one yellow. Microwave each bowl for 5-10 seconds or until runny.
  • Step 
    10
    Drizzle each muffin with each of the colors and sprinkle with edible glitter.
  • Step 
    11
    Adapted from Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Muffins

Nutrition

574.5 Calories
20.2g Total Fat
4.1g Protein
93.7g Total Carbohydrate
62.2g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving
Calories
574.5
Total Fat
20.2g
31%
Saturated Fat
10.6g
53%
Cholesterol
20.3mg
7%
Sodium
391.5mg
16%
Potassium
4.8mg
0%
Total Carbohydrate
93.7g
31%
Dietary Fiber
0.2g
1%
Sugars
62.2g
Protein
4.1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0.70%
1%
Iron
6.30%
6%
Exchanges:
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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